PD3 Eksamen PDF: Where the Official Past Papers Are (Tidligere Prøver)

There is no archive of past Prøve i Dansk 3 (PD3) papers by sitting. SIRI, the agency that sets the test, publishes one example of each part on its two PD3 pages, and that is all: one complete reading set from summer 2023 with its answer keys, one writing paper from May–June 2022 with one answer that passed, and for the oral a picture sheet, an examiner booklet from May–June 2024 and a video of a passed performance [official: SIRI’s PD3 pages, read 13 October 2026].

Everything is free and needs no login. Anything sold or shared as a “PD3 eksamen PDF” collection is either these files or something that is not an official paper. A real paper names its sitting on the cover, for example “Maj-juni 2023”. This page lists each official file with what it contains, tells you which older files have been taken down and where an archived copy is, says plainly what has never been published, and ends with a planner for sitting the papers under the real clock.

File count and statuses: our check of danskogproever.dk on 13 October 2026. Points: the two official answer keys of summer 2023.

This is a complete reading set from one past sitting, May–June 2023. Delprøve 1 is a 16-page text collection about Sønderjylland with 15 short-answer questions grouped under the heading to search; the key gives 1 point per answer. Delprøve 2A (three questions, three options each) and 2B (five removed passages, printed with two that fit nowhere) give 2 points per answer, and delprøve 3 (eight gaps, four options each) gives 1 point per answer [official: the 2023 booklets and keys].

The key to delprøve 1 carries a note worth reading before you mark yourself: a slash between two answers means “and/or”, and words in brackets may be part of the answer [official]. So the marker wants the fact, not a sentence. What the key does not tell you is a grade. SIRI’s complaints guidance says the table that turns points into grades is adjusted after each sitting, and SIRI’s practical guide says it is sent to censors and providers as confidential material [official]. Thirty-nine points is what one paper carried; it is not a scale you can read a pass mark from.

The paper has both tasks: an e-mail from a friend with four underlined passages to answer, and delprøve 2 with a choice between task A, a bar chart on worry about climate change by age group, and task B, a list of six things that make a workplace attractive. Each ends with the instruction that the third point should make up about 50% of the answer and that at least 200 words are required [official: the 2022 paper]. The passed answer covers the e-mail and task B.

SIRI’s candidate page calls that answer an example of a passed test and names no grade for it. The assessment guide for examiners prints what is, with small differences of wording, the same answer as its example of grade 7 [official: both files, compared by us]. That is a useful anchor: it shows that an answer with visible language errors, and a third point that does not quite answer the question, was in the middle of the scale. Our model-answers guide sets a weaker and a stronger answer side by side on new tasks.

The examiner booklet from May–June 2024 is the most informative single file for the oral. It prints the timetable of the test, the four kinds of follow-up question, and the full script for three delprøve-2 topics: Støtte til kultur, Mangel på arbejdskraft and Pædagogik i folkeskolen, each with a first and a second compulsory question and suggested follow-ups [official]. The picture sheet is the one used in the video, so you can lay it in front of you, pause the video after each question and answer before the candidate does.

Four kinds of official PD3 material were public in 2025 and are no longer linked from SIRI’s live pages. We checked each old address on 13 October 2026; where the Internet Archive holds a copy, it is linked in the sources at the foot of this page [official files; the archive is a third party].

SIRI explains the move itself: the guides “har tidligere ligget her på hjemmesiden, men er nu flyttet til SIRIs bedømmertræningssite”. They are available to everyone enrolled on a course on that site, and the course key comes from the test coordinator (den prøveansvarlige) at a language centre [official: SIRI’s page on assessment guides]. If you are enrolled on Danish Education 3, ask your teacher for the current guides; that is the audience SIRI names for them, alongside examiners and censors. A self-studier has no stated route to a login, which is why we link the archived editions (on 13 October 2026 the oral one replayed and the written one did not). We cannot see whether newer editions exist behind the login.

The archived written guide is worth the download for one reason above all: it is the only place where you can read real answers at every grade, to the papers of summer 2022 and winter 2015, with SIRI’s written reasons for 12, 7 and 02. The oral guide does the same in words for 12, 10, 7, 02 and 00.

With a single reading set, the order in which you use the files matters more than it would with ten. Our advice, which is ours and not SIRI’s: sit the reading set on the clock, with no dictionary, exactly as the regulation runs it, and do it once. A second attempt at the same texts measures your memory. Treat the 2022 writing paper the same way, by hand and with the dictionary you will bring, and only then open the passed answer.

When the official files are used up, you are not out of material, only out of official material. The examples guide is a second set written in the same formats, with the answers explained, and the six-week plan says in which week each official file belongs. The times, aids and rules of the room are in the written exam guide and the oral exam guide.

For reading, mark strictly: the key gives 1 or 0, 2 or 0, never a half. Write down your points per part, not just the total, because the parts test different things and the weak one tells you what to practise. For writing, do not try to give yourself a grade. Put your text beside the passed answer and ask the three questions the examiner’s sheet asks: did I do what each point asked, do my paragraphs hang together, and how much do my errors disturb a reader? For the oral, record yourself; the grade descriptions turn largely on how much help a candidate needs from the examiner, and you can hear that on a recording.