Free, official German exam papers and marking schemes for every year from 2007 to 2025, at Higher and Ordinary level. Every link goes straight to the State Examinations Commission PDF; no signup, no paywall.
Topic tags from our question-by-question analysis of recent Higher Level papers, ranked by how many years they appeared in.
| Topic | Years appeared | Span |
|---|---|---|
| applied grammar | 11 | 2015-2025 |
| reading comprehension | 11 | 2015-2025 |
| written production | 11 | 2015-2025 |
| journalistic text | 7 | 2015-2023 |
| letter writing | 7 | 2015-2023 |
| opinion writing | 7 | 2015-2023 |
| written expression | 7 | 2015-2023 |
| german prose | 5 | 2015-2021 |
| picture stimulus | 5 | 2015-2021 |
| image stimulus | 4 | 2019-2025 |
| letter | 4 | 2019-2025 |
| verb tenses | 4 | 2017-2025 |
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Yes. Each year's page links the official SEC marking scheme alongside the exam paper, for Higher and Ordinary level.
2007 to 2025 at Higher and Ordinary level. A few very old links may be missing from the SEC archive itself.
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