Module 6 is the last module on Danskuddannelse 3, and the only one that most people never take. It is for those who want to study at a Danish university in Danish, and it ends with Studieprøven, an exam at level C1. Here is what the module covers, what the exam looks like, and who actually needs it.
In short
- Level: C1. Ends with: Studieprøven, held twice a year. You need a passed Prøve i Dansk 3 to start module 6.
- Who needs it: people applying to a Danish-language higher education programme. Many programmes require Studieprøven with a minimum grade; check the programme’s own rules.
- Three parts: reading (about 25 pages of texts), writing (400 words in three hours) and an oral exam of about 30 minutes.
- Passing: each part must be passed with at least 02, and reading and writing must be passed in the same exam period.
What module 6 is about
The goal is to be able to take a higher education in Danish: follow a lecture, take part in an academic discussion, argue and conclude, and give a well-structured presentation. The topics are workplace and study culture, the forms of study you meet at a Danish university (lectures, group work, project work and exams), and general topics from the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. In other words, the module is less about Danish life and more about academic Danish: the connectors, the hedging, the way you present data and disagree politely.
Studieprøven: the format
Reading
- Part 1: scanning. Fifteen short answers from about 25 pages of texts, in 25 minutes.
- Part 2A: a gap text where five paragraphs are missing and you get seven.
- Part 2B: multiple choice: five questions with three answers each.
- Part 3: a cloze with ten gaps and four choices per gap.
The texts are long and academic in tone: newspaper features, popular science, reports. Compared to PD3, the difference is length and density more than difficulty of vocabulary.
Writing (3 hours)
You choose one of three tasks. Each comes with a short fact text and one or two graphs, and four focus points: describe what the data shows, explain the causes, put it into perspective, and take a position. The text must be at least 400 words. Three hours is plenty of time, and the risk is the opposite of the module tests: writing too much, too loosely. A plan with the four points, written before you start, is the difference between a 7 and a 02.
Oral (about 30 minutes)
Five working days before the exam you get three topics. On the day you draw one of them, give a presentation of about five minutes, and are interviewed for about fifteen. You may bring one A4 page of notes. The interview questions are the academic kinds: clarify, elaborate, justify, and put into perspective (Hvordan hænger det sammen med …?). Fifteen minutes is long, and it is where the examiners find out whether the presentation was learned by heart.
You can take all three parts as a free practice test, at full length and with the same clocks: an article collection of about 24 pages for the scanning, the three long texts of reading 2 and 3 (scored in points like the real exam), the three writing tasks with graphs, and the oral part with a drawn topic and the examiner’s questions read aloud when you tap.
Who needs Studieprøven, and who does not
- You need it if you apply to a Danish-language bachelor’s or master’s programme without a Danish upper secondary exam. Most universities require Studieprøven passed, often with a specified grade in each part, and some programmes require more.
- You do not need it for citizenship (that is PD3), for permanent residence (PD2), or for most jobs. Employers rarely ask for it.
- You may not need it if your programme is taught in English, or if you have a Danish qualification that counts instead. Ask the programme’s admissions office before you spend six months on C1.
How to prepare
- Read long texts, not short ones. A feature article a day, timed. The scanning part is about finding fifteen facts in 25 pages in 25 minutes.
- Learn to describe a graph in Danish in five sentences: what it shows, the highest, the lowest, the trend, the surprise. Then the causes. Then the perspective.
- Build a presentation skeleton for any topic: a question, three points with evidence, a conclusion. Five minutes is about 600 words, so the skeleton has to carry it.
- Practise being interviewed for fifteen minutes. Nobody practises this, and everybody should.
In the free course, module 6 has presentations with A4 notes and nine examiner questions per topic in the four academic kinds, two reading sets with eleven texts for scanning, three writing tasks with a fact text and a graph, and five word topics with the academic phrases: hedging, contrasting, concluding.
Updated 13 September 2026