Studieprøven Oral: Three Topics, One Drawn by Lot, 30 Minutes

The oral part of Studieprøven gives one grade, for oral communication, which includes listening comprehension (bilag 1 pt 4.4). It has two tasks: a presentation of a topic and a follow-up interview (pt 4.24). SIRI’s candidate page gives the times: a presentation of about 5 minutes, then a conversation of about 15 minutes, inside a test that lasts 30 minutes including deliberation and the grade [official].

Official: BEK 1687/2025 §26 stk.2 and bilag 1 pt 4.24–4.27; SIRI Studieprøven page.

You sit at a table with an examiner and a censor. The examiner explains what to do and asks the questions; the censor takes notes, keeps time and helps decide the grade [official: SIRI]. Until 1 March 2026 the regulation also said the Studieprøven oral was always graded with a censor appointed for it (§41 stk.2); BEK 300/2026 repealed that paragraph, so SIRI’s description of an examiner and a censor at the table is the current statement [official]. Oral tests are in principle public, although the provider can limit this; sound and video recording in the room are not allowed (§25 stk.4–6).

Our arithmetic: 5 + 15 = 20 minutes of speaking, which leaves about 10 minutes of the 30 for the ID check, instruction, your introduction, the draw, deliberation and the grade. SIRI’s candidate page names deliberation and the grade as inside the 30 minutes; the regulation adds the ID check and the instruction (§26 stk.3; pt 4.27). Both say 30 minutes, so the speaking time is close to all the time left over — expect a tight room, not a relaxed chat.

This is the fact that official sources state in two different ways. SIRI’s candidate page says: “En uge inden prøven modtager du et opgaveark med tre samfundsrelaterede og komplekse emner” — a week before the test you receive a task sheet with three topics [official: SIRI]. The regulation says the provider gives the topics to the candidate “fem hverdage før den mundtlige prøvetermins begyndelse” — five working days before the oral term begins (§25 stk.3; bilag 1 pt 4.25) [official].

The regulation is binding and the practical guide agrees with it, so plan on the regulation. Our arithmetic for winter 2026: the oral window opens on Wednesday 2 December 2026. Five full working days before it are 25, 26, 27 and 30 November and 1 December, so the topic sheet should reach candidates around Tuesday 24 November 2026. Your provider tells you the exact day and how you receive the sheet. Everyone gets the same three topics on the same day, which means a candidate examined on 15 December has about three weeks with them and one examined on 2 December has one week.

SIRI publishes one real task sheet, from May–June 2020 [official: sample]. Its three topics were:

The angles are ideas, not a syllabus. SIRI says you are not expected to prepare or cover all of them, but the presentation must stay inside the overall topic and must contain some issues that invite discussion, because the examiner builds the conversation on them [official: SIRI]. The sheet tells you to prepare by gathering information from newspapers, radio, TV, the internet, encyclopaedias and books.

The regulation lets you bring your own notes equal to one A4 page for the presentation (§26 stk.2). The 2020 task sheet puts it as “For hvert emne” — one A4 page for each topic. Read together, you may prepare a page for each of your three topics, but the regulation lets you use one page, for the presentation of the topic you draw; if in doubt, ask your provider. The sheet adds a warning: “oplæsning af længere passager fra notaterne ikke tæller positivt” — reading longer passages aloud from your notes does not count in your favour [official: sample]. Write keywords, figures and the order of your points; do not write a script.

The four rows follow SIRI’s own description of the questions [official: SIRI]; the preparation column is our advice. The regulation (pt 4.26) grades whether you understand complex, nuanced language and answer questions that invite clarification, elaboration, assessment and argument in coherent, precise and correct language. SIRI adds three things worth knowing. Listening counts: if a question is unclear, you may ask for it to be made clearer. Accent is fine — “Du må gerne tale med accent” — as long as you are easy to understand. And, as in writing, your knowledge of the topic is not what is graded; your ability to present and discuss it is.

SIRI’s dates page gives the winter 2026 orals as 2–15 December 2026, Wednesday to Tuesday [official]. Under the Studieprøven heading, though, the oral line reads “afholdes den mundtlige del af Prøve i Dansk 1 i perioden den 2.–15. december 2026” — naming PD1 instead of Studieprøven. Every other test on the page has the same 2–15 December window. We read it as a copy-paste slip and take the Studieprøven oral window to be 2–15 December; that is our interpretation, and your provider’s letter with your own date is what counts.

Your own oral day is set by your provider inside the window. The written part comes first, on 9 November; see the written exam guide. The oral needs 02 on its own, and a failed oral can be taken again alone in a later term — details in the pass rule guide. A candidate with a significant permanent impairment can be exempted from a part; SIRI’s example is a deaf candidate exempted from the oral [official: SIRI special-conditions page]. For PD3’s very different oral (a 2-minute talk and a picture task), see the PD3 oral guide.