Evaluating Proposals and Problem-Solving Conversation
B2 proposal-speaking questions test evaluating options, advantages, disadvantages, priorities, consequences, recommendation, negotiation, and follow-up conversation.
How to study for DELE B2
Use the Instituto Cervantes DELE B2 structure as the map: build upper-intermediate Spanish for complex texts, varied audio, formal and semi-formal writing, proposal evaluation, visual description, and opinion based on data.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Evaluating Proposals and Problem-Solving Conversation questions reward the answer that follows the official source, the professional role, and the stated facts.
Exam cue: Identify the candidate role, client or public risk, source rule, calculation, or process step being tested.
Concept 2
The strongest answer identifies the rule, safety concern, ethical duty, calculation, client factor, or process step before acting.
Exam cue: Check whether the fact pattern is using a national standard, jurisdiction rule, handbook policy, or scenario-specific instruction.
Concept 3
Eliminate answers that ignore requirements, skip documentation, overreach the role, or treat convenience as the standard.
Exam cue: Choose the compliant and professionally scoped answer before the convenient or familiar answer.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating related standards as interchangeable without checking the source.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Skipping screening, documentation, authorization, sanitation, recordkeeping, or other required procedure.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Choosing an answer that protects convenience instead of client safety, public protection, or the stated professional duty.
Guardrail: Avoid answers that rely only on habit, ignore the stated source, skip safety or compliance steps, or choose convenience over the professional standard.
Memory anchors
Problem Frame
Start by defining the problem and the goal of the proposals.
Advantage
Advantages should connect a proposal to a practical benefit.
Disadvantage
Disadvantages should identify cost, risk, limitation, or unintended effect.
Priority
Priorities explain which criterion matters most and why.
Consequence
Consequences show what may happen if a proposal is chosen.
Recommendation
A recommendation chooses an option and justifies it with balanced reasons.
Negotiation
Negotiation responds to the interviewer's view and compares alternatives.
Flexible Response
Flexible responses adapt without abandoning the central argument.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
En una prueba oral, debe proponer una actividad para mejorar la convivencia en su barrio. ¿Cuál de estas formas de plantear la propuesta es más eficaz?
En una conversación de la prueba oral, su interlocutor propone una idea con la que usted no está del todo de acuerdo. ¿Cuál es la forma más adecuada de expresar su desacuerdo?
Answer all questions to submit.
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