Detailvraag
A question about one stated point inside a long argued text — the largest block of marks on Lezen II.
102 of our 291 B2 reading items are detail questions, more than any other type. What is different from B1 is not the question but the sentence it sits in: at B2 the fact is usually carried by a subordinate clause hanging off a main clause that says something else. The difficulty is grammatical, not lexical — you have to know which part of a long sentence is the claim and which part is the condition on it.
How the exam tests this
About 35–36 multiple-choice questions over roughly 6 texts in 100 minutes, computer-marked. The texts argue rather than inform, and the detail questions are built on the argument's machinery: a condition (mits, tenzij, op voorwaarde dat), a scope limit (voor zover, in beginsel), a source attribution. Every wrong option is a true sentence from the text with one of those removed. Because the texts are long, the questions are also the only reliable index — they follow the text's order, so a question you cannot place is usually being answered from the wrong paragraph.
What is wrong with this sentence?
De subsidie blijft beschikbaar.
Most candidates write it exactly like this and lose the mark without knowing why.
The rest of this lesson
The rule, the worked examples, the exceptions and what to do in the exam room open with Mastery, together with every other lesson for this exam.
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