Our two-year training books are regularly revised and enriched with new texts. Using current and student-relevant texts, all exam formats are addressed. Support materials, information fields, illustrations, audio texts, and guided tasks optimally prepare students for the exam. Our comprehensive training book covers the mandatory section A1, focusing on the exam areas of comprehension of factual texts, grammar, spelling, and language understanding, and is designed for two years of use. The optional section B includes several tasks for linear discussion and text descriptions of poetry and prose. The grammar section has been redesigned and better aligned with the exam requirements. In selecting current texts for the 2025 and 2026 editions, great emphasis was placed on the experience horizon and the relevance to the lives of young people. New: Starting with this edition, we will provide students with printable solutions via download. The solutions serve for self-assessment and problem-solving. They include suggested answers to the tasks and model solutions for essay topics, allowing performance to be tracked and independently verified. The training book optimally prepares students from secondary schools, vocational schools, and community schools for the exam formats of the secondary school diploma and supports teachers. The training book contains exercises for the mandatory section: I. Understanding factual texts, exercises for the optional section: I. Linear discussion of a factual text and additional materials, II. Text description of poetry, III. Text description of prose, grammar exercises, words and word types, sentences and sentence types (field model), word meaning – The meaning of words, audio texts and digital tasks, online courses for beginners and advanced learners – spelling and punctuation, grammar to reinforce foundational knowledge, as well as now new printable solutions.