Who builds Level Exams, and how

Level Exams is a product of OSAR Global Trading DOO, a company registered in Podgorica, Montenegro. Its founder and executive director is Olcay Sari.

The same company runs HIAKOS Academy (hiakos.com), a student advisory brand for university applications from Turkey to Germany and Montenegro. German exam preparation happens on Level Exams.

Format first: for every exam type and level we study the official sample exams (Modellsatz, Übungstest), the exam regulations (Durchführungsbestimmungen) and the assessment documents. We take only the structure from them: section order, timing, item counts, points, how often each recording plays, the pass rule. That structure is written into a separate format file per exam type and level, and the exam engine, the scoring and the tables on this site all read from it.

The content is original: no texts, questions, recordings or topics from the official exams are used. We copy the format and write the content from scratch.

Listening recordings are produced with natural-sounding synthetic German voices of different speakers. Instructions, reading time and answer pauses are inside the recording, as in the real exam, and it cannot be paused.

Every mock exam runs through automated checks before it goes live: consistency of the answer key, text lengths against the official timing, how correct answers are spread across the options, whether the correct answer stands out by length, and repeated texts or patterns across exams.

In addition, an independent AI solver that never sees the answer key works through the exams; items where it disagrees with the key are reviewed by hand and corrected where needed.

Objective sections such as reading, listening and language elements are scored against the answer key; they never go to the AI.

Writing and speaking tasks are scored with Anthropic's Claude model against the assessment criteria of that exam. Every answer is assessed twice independently and the two scores are averaged; if they differ widely, a third assessment decides. Speaking is transcribed first.

Limits: pronunciation cannot be measured reliably from a transcript, so at A1 and A2 it does not count towards the official score and you only get estimated feedback. For exams that do not publish their detailed criteria, the split of points across criteria is derived from the task instructions. An AI score does not replace the examiners' score in the real exam; it is an estimate for your preparation.

Level Exams is an independent preparation platform with no affiliation to telc gGmbH, ÖSD or the Goethe-Institut. It is not an exam centre and issues no official certificate: results come as a result report (Ergebnisbericht). You register for the official exam at a licensed exam centre.