Inburgering Dutch Exam Preparation Course

Jacqueline is a great teacher

Thank you to Jacqueline. She is patient and accommodating in teaching and motivates us for the next steps. I never feel that I am lost during the course. I hope to have her for the next steps.

I was looking for Dutch courses for a long time and finally registered at kickstart school because they were less expensive than other schools. I though that the price would affect their professionalism but I was so wrong. The administration, the teachers, the materials are just perfect perfect perfect.

I'm learning Dutch language here and find the teaching methodology really good for preparing for in-burgering exam as well as to increase knowledge of Dutch language.

I think kickstart did a great job in doing the courses virtually and giving us the opportunity to learn with all the current COVID restrictions.

Delighted that I could follow this course from the comfort of my home during COVID. I really appreciated the teacher adapting to working online. Good way to practice my reading, writing, speaking and listening skills as well as learning about the Dutch Society and orientation to the Dutch Labour Market (ONA).

I had a great A2 course (Dutch is the 5th language I'm learning and I'd say Odette, my A2 teacher, was the best language teacher I've ever had!) with Kickstart and continued with the Inburgering preparation course thereafter. This Inburgering course was a good introduction on how the exam is structured and to prepare for the KNM & writing sections. I do not think that I got sufficient practice with the listening, reading or speaking sections. The teacher often got sidetracked with non-exam related questions about living in the Netherlands when reviewing the KNM chapters from the books. Usually we took about 60-70% of the time on reviewing the chapters which I think could have been done a bit more efficiently. After, we'd move to practicing for the written part of the exam and follow up with speaking questions (which always felt rushed in a class of 7 with only 20-30 minutes allocated here). I think that the time would be better spent having done a short test on the KNM section based on the chapter we needed to read for homework and any relevant questions that students may have had. Then followed by practicing for the other parts of the exam. In my opinion, we did not get enough practice for the listening, reading or speaking exams. In addition, there were no resources provided to study for these outside of the class. It would have been great if the teacher could have shared a list of practice speaking questions and if Kickstart also posted some additional listening and reading exercises on the course. Overall, it was a decent class and I would do it again but I still think that I need additional practice if I am to pass the exams easily.