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Prøve i Dansk 3: the oral part, step by step

Prøve i Dansk 3 is the Danish test most applicants for Danish citizenship need. Its oral part takes about ten minutes, in two parts, and it counts double in the final grade. Here is how it works, from the authority's own pages.

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What Prøve i Dansk 3 is

The oral part, step by step

Two parts of about five minutes each. You sit at a table with an examiner, who explains the task and asks the questions, and a censor, who takes notes and keeps time.

  1. Delprøve 1Part 1: your prepared topicYour language centre gives you a topic a week before the test, about an issue in society. You give a presentation of about two minutes. The examiner then asks follow-up questions, including questions that take your presentation further.
  2. Delprøve 2Part 2: a topic drawn by lotAt the test you draw one of three topics, so you cannot prepare it. The examiner asks a first set question about a concrete side of the topic, then a second, more general one, each followed by questions that ask you to clarify or say more. What is assessed is how clearly and understandably you answer. The authority's example video comes with the pictures used in its part 2.

What the authority does not publish

  • A points scale or a checklist for the oral grade. The examiner and the censor decide the grade together.
  • A list of the topics. The part 1 topic comes from your language centre a week before the test, and the part 2 topic is drawn on the day.

How to practise for it

Start with the official example on danskogproever.dk: a video of a passing performance, with the pictures used in its part 2.

Then say it out loud. Time your presentation at about two minutes, the length the authority gives. Practise answering follow-up questions you did not expect, and practise talking about a topic you have not prepared, because part 2 is exactly that.

Belong Nordic has a speaking partner for this. In the app, on iPhone and Android, Saga can rehearse the shape of the oral part with you: your presentation without interruption, follow-up questions on it, then a talk on a new topic. She makes no corrections during the rehearsal and gives you a debrief afterwards. She is an AI, she describes the situations in words because a call has no pictures, and she never says whether you would pass.

The oral part, in short

How long is the oral part of Prøve i Dansk 3?

Two parts of about five minutes each, so about ten minutes in all.

Can you prepare for part 2?

Not the topic itself: you draw one of three topics at the test. You can prepare by practising talking about topics you have not seen before.

Who is in the room?

An examiner, who explains the task and asks the questions, and a censor, who takes notes and keeps time. They decide your grade together.

Does the oral part count more than the written part?

Yes. The test is passed with a grade average of at least 2.0, and the oral part counts double in that average.

Is Prøve i Dansk 3 required for Danish citizenship?

It is the general language requirement, at B2. Prøve i Dansk 2 counts instead for applicants who have had no assistance under the Active Social Policy Act or the Integration Act in the last 2 years and no more than 3 months of it in the last 9. The naturalisation circular lists other accepted exams too, and which one applies to you is the Ministry's call.

There are 7,100+ practice questions in the app.

2,083 of them are Danish, drilled chapter by chapter in the order the official material sets them, with a mistakes deck, spaced repetition and full mocks under the real clock.

Written by Belong Nordic from the authority’s own study material. They are not SIRI’s questions, and the real sitting uses its own.

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