Slaagkans

Oordeelsvraag

A question about the writer's verdict on a book, an exhibition or a measure — usually praise and objection at once.

3 of our 291 B2 reading items. The texts are reviews and columns, and the stem is Wat is het oordeel van de recensent? or Wat is het hoofdbezwaar? Where the Standpuntvraag asks where a writer stands on an issue, this one asks how they rate a thing — and B2 reviewers rarely rate anything simply. The novel is technically brilliant and too smooth to remember; the exhibition is beautifully lit and wrongly arranged. The correct option keeps both halves, or names the objection the whole review is building towards. The wrong options keep one half, or invent a complaint the reviewer never made.

How the exam tests this

Lezen on Programma II: roughly 35–36 multiple-choice questions over about six texts in 100 minutes, computer-marked. The correct option names the objection with the praise still attached, or the one objection the review keeps returning to. The wrong options are a flat verdict (Het boek is slecht geschreven), the opposite flat verdict (het beste boek dat de auteur tot nu toe heeft geschreven), a side complaint about something the review barely mentions or even praises (de verlichting, de toegangsprijs), and the reverse of the real objection — te rauw en ongepolijst, about a book whose problem is that nothing in it is raw.

What is wrong with this sentence?

Het boek is slecht geschreven

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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