People search for “module test 5”, and the answer is that there is none on Danskuddannelse 3. Module 5 ends with Prøve i Dansk 3, a state exam at level B2, and it is a different kind of test from the module tests before it. This page explains what module 5 covers, how PD3 differs from the module tests, and what to do with the months in between.
In short
- Level: B2. Ends with: Prøve i Dansk 3, held in May/June and November/December.
- No module test. Your language school decides when you are ready and signs you up for the exam.
- New in module 5: Danish history, and longer texts on society topics.
- Deposit: if you paid one, you get it back if you pass PD3 within nine months of starting the module.
What module 5 is about
The module’s goals are the B2 goals: speak a connected, fairly nuanced language with high accuracy, read real texts about current and historical topics, including fiction, and have insight into Danish history. The topics are:
- Work culture: formal and informal competences, what Danish workplaces expect, flat hierarchies and the unwritten rules that come with them.
- Lifelong learning: continuing education, and why Danes keep taking courses.
- The environment.
- Democracy and active citizenship: the housing association, the school board, the union, the many small boards that run Danish life.
- Danish history in four periods: before 1500 (Christianity, the union with Norway), after the Reformation (the church, the wars with Sweden, absolute monarchy), the 1800s (compulsory schooling, the constitution of 1849, the loss of the duchies) and modern times (women’s vote in 1915, the reunification of Southern Jutland in 1920, the occupation, the EC in 1973, the monarchy today).
The history is not tested as facts in a quiz. It turns up as reading texts and as background in the oral topics, so you need the words for it more than the dates.
How PD3 differs from the module tests
| Module tests | Prøve i Dansk 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Who makes it | SIRI, taken at your school when your teacher says you are ready | SIRI, held nationwide on fixed dates twice a year |
| Result | Pass or fail per part | A grade per part on the 7-point scale; pass with an average of 2.0, oral counting double |
| Oral topic | Your own topic sheet | A topic assigned five working days before, plus an unprepared topic with pictures |
| Reading | Four tasks, about 50 minutes | Scanning ten pages in 25 minutes, then three understanding tasks in 65 minutes |
| Writing | Email and blog post, 100–125 words | Email plus a 200-word text that describes, explains and discusses |
| What it gives you | Access to the next module | The language requirement for citizenship, a supplementary requirement for permanent residence, and access to module 6 |
What to do with the months in module 5
- Get the exam format into your hands early. The full format is in the PD3 guide. Do a scanning task against the clock in the first month, not the last. The free practice test has all three parts, at full length and with the same clocks.
- Speak about society every week. The assigned oral topic will be one of the module’s topics, so practise presentations on all of them, two minutes each, with the examiner’s four kinds of questions.
- Read something real every day. A B2 reader can read the news. Ten minutes of dr.dk a day does more for the reading part than any exercise.
- Write the 200-word text with the three moves (describe, explain, discuss) until the structure is boring. Boring is what you want under exam pressure.
- Learn the history words. grundloven, enevælden, reformationen, besættelsen, genforeningen. They come up, and they are not guessable from English.
In the free course, module 5 is built around the exam: a grade calculator, five prepared presentations with the examiner’s four kinds of questions, four unprepared topics with two pictures, three reading sets in the exam’s formats, two emails and four 200-word texts with diagrams and statements, the Danish history in four periods with a timeline, words and a reading text each, and the connectors and expressions that make Danish sound like B2.
Updated 23 October 2026