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закончился срок её действия correct на счёте не осталось денег your answer Money is addressed separately and to the opposite effect: “the account is the same… the money stays on the account.” A different reason is given. банк заблокировал карту your answer Blocking is never mentioned. It is the habitual guess — card not working means blocked — but the clerk names the expiry date. The dialogue: “Yes, it expired last month. We have already issued a new card.” The technique: at level three the key word is said once and never repeated — hold the question in your head beforehand, and you will catch the answer where it is spoken.
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если записаться заранее your answer Booking the surgeon directly is exactly what is ruled out: “The surgeon takes patients by referral only.” One exception is named, and it is not booking. если обратиться в неотложную помощь correct если прийти в выходной день your answer Days off are never mentioned. The condition is about the situation — severe pain that cannot wait — not about the day of the week. The dialogue: “And if the pain is severe and cannot wait?” — “Then go to emergency care: it is open around the clock and needs no referral.” The technique: at level three the key word is said once and never repeated — hold the question in your head beforehand, and you will catch the answer where it is spoken.
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Ничего страшного, подойдите к окну номер четыре, там принимают эти документы. correct Да, талоны у нас выдают на первом этаже. your answer The person already has a ticket and says so. The reply repeats what is known instead of solving the problem. Вид на жительство выдаётся на пять лет. your answer Factually true but off the question: the person is not asking about duration, but about where to go now. The person said they took a ticket for the wrong queue and named what they need. So the reply must send them where those documents are accepted. The technique: at level three the key word is said once and never repeated — hold the question in your head beforehand, and you will catch the answer where it is spoken.
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документ, удостоверяющий личность correct документ о регистрации в городе your answer Registration is never mentioned. The text says “any resident of the city” and “a document proving identity” — different requirements, and the second is not there. читательский билет your answer A library card is issued AFTER you register; you do not bring one. The order of steps is what is tested. The text: “any resident of the city can join, and joining is free: all you need is a document proving your identity.” The technique: at level three the key word is said once and never repeated — hold the question in your head beforehand, and you will catch the answer where it is spoken.
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платные, но недорогие your answer The courses are called free outright. The assumption that nothing is free is the commonest cause of error here. бесплатные, их ведут волонтёры correct только для детей your answer It says “for adults” outright. Children’s classes are also mentioned, but that is a different sentence and a different activity. The text: “Many libraries run free Russian courses for adults — volunteers teach them in the evenings and at weekends.” The technique: at level three the key word is said once and never repeated — hold the question in your head beforehand, and you will catch the answer where it is spoken.
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выдают на две недели your answer Two weeks is the term for an ordinary book. Rare editions get their own sentence, saying the opposite. можно продлить по телефону your answer Renewal by phone applies to ordinary books. The technique: the last sentence of a text often introduces the exception — and the question is built on it. домой не выдают correct The final line: “Rare and old editions are not lent out: you work with them in the reading room.” The technique: at level three the key word is said once and never repeated — hold the question in your head beforehand, and you will catch the answer where it is spoken.
Просто сделать копию на копировальном аппарате your answer A plain photocopy is not certified: it has no notary's signature or seal, and without them it has no legal force. Отнести её к нотариусу, чтобы он поставил заверение correct Заверить её у работодателя your answer An employer certifies copies of its own personnel documents. A passport copy is certified by a notary. “Notarised” means taking the original and the copy to a notary, who compares them and adds a signature and seal. A foreign passport usually needs a notarised translation: the translator translates and the notary certifies the translator's signature — two services, done in one visit.
С момента подписания correct После регистрации в государственном органе your answer Registration is not mentioned at all: the moment of entry into force is stated outright — signing. С первого числа следующего месяца your answer No such condition appears. The start date is set by an event, not by the calendar. “From the moment of signing” means immediately, as soon as both parties sign. It is the commonest wording, and there is no separate start date: it coincides with the signing.
Работодатель correct Работник your answer The duty is stated plainly and lies with the employer. The worker need not notify anyone separately. Принимающая сторона your answer The host party files an ARRIVAL notification — a different document under a different law. The employer files the notification of a contract within three working days. It is a separate duty, unrelated to migration registration, where the host party files the arrival notice.
Можно обращаться в суд correct Ждать дальше: срок не установлен your answer A period is set — ten days. Two weeks is more than ten days, so it has expired. Подать претензию заново your answer No second claim is needed: the right to go to court arises precisely from the lack of a reply to the first. A written claim is a mandatory step before court in many disputes. The reply period runs from receipt; once it passes without an answer, the way to court is open.
Работника оформят официально, с трудовым договором correct Работать можно без документов your answer “По ТК РФ” means exactly the opposite: under the Labour Code — with a contract, paid leave and an entry in the work record. Зарплата будет в конверте your answer Cash-in-hand pay is not advertised this way. Hiring under the Labour Code implies declared wages and contributions. “Employment under the Labour Code” in a job ad promises formal hiring: a contract, leave, sick pay, contributions. Check it on day one against your copy of the contract.
С 1 июня correct С 1 марта your answer The right arose earlier, but the benefit is granted from the day of APPLICATION: “not earlier than” sets a floor, it does not backdate. С 1 января, как с начала года your answer The calendar year is irrelevant: two reference points are named — the application and the arising of the right. The rule is simple and costly: money is counted from the day you apply. Delay the application and you lose months even if the right existed. Hence you claim benefits at once.
Два: с оригиналом или заверенную нотариусом correct Один: только через нотариуса your answer The conjunction “либо” joins two equal options. A notary is needed only in the second. Один: только с оригиналом your answer The same error reversed: a notarised copy is accepted without the original — that is what notarisation is for. “Либо” offers a choice of two: bring the copy together with the original, or have it notarised in advance. The second costs more but keeps the original with you.
Фамилию и инициалы печатными буквами correct Повторить подпись ещё раз your answer The printed name is needed precisely because signatures are often illegible. A second flourish decodes nothing. Должность your answer A position goes on its own line where needed. The decoding is only the surname and initials. The decoding of a signature is the surname and initials written legibly: “Rakhimov A. K.”. It exists so the paper shows who actually signed. Leaving this box empty is one of the commonest reasons documents are handed back.
С оценки работы сотрудника your answer Judgements and emotion weaken a complaint because they cannot be checked. Dates, reference numbers and the content of the reply can be. С фактов: когда вы обратились, что попросили, что вам ответили correct С требования уволить сотрудника your answer The demand goes at the end and concerns your own issue — to review, to provide the service, to reply in writing — not someone else's fate. A complaint that gets considered is simple: facts by date, which of your rights was breached, and what you are asking for. State everything checkable precisely and leave out the judgements. At the end ask for a written reply — it starts a deadline and opens the way to appeal.
объявление your answer An announcement addresses everyone and hangs on a wall. A reply to one named person is called something else. заявление your answer An application is written by you to the authority. A notification travels the other way, from the authority to you. уведомление correct Four words that mean different things in documents: an application is you asking, a notification is them telling you a decision, an announcement addresses everyone, a certificate confirms a fact at your request. A notification is always addressed to you by name, and appeal deadlines run from its date.
подано correct подан your answer «Подан» is masculine. «Заявление» is neuter, so it takes «подано». подана your answer «Подана» is feminine. «Заявление» ends in -е and is neuter. Passive forms agree in gender and number with the subject: заявление подано, жалоба подана, документ подан. Such constructions are the language of official papers and are tested regularly at this level.
в течении your answer «В течении» with -и refers to a river's current. For time you write «в течение» with -е — it is a preposition. в течение correct через your answer «Через пять лет» points into the future. Here we speak of time already lived. «В течение» is a preposition, always spelled with -е and taking the genitive: for a month, for five years. The form with -и exists but means a river's current. Native speakers get this pair wrong, which is why it reaches the exam.
на то, что your answer «Несмотря на то, что» must be followed by a full clause. Here only a single noun follows. за your answer «Несмотря за» does not exist. The preposition is always «на» — a fixed combination. на correct «Несмотря на» is a concessive preposition: it introduces what stood in the way but did not prevent the outcome. A noun in the accusative follows. Before a full clause the form becomes «несмотря на то, что». It is always written as one word.
переводчик correct нотариус your answer The notary certifies the signature but does not translate. Two different roles, and both names appear on the document. юрист your answer A lawyer deals with law, not translation. A notarised translation requires a translator with recognised qualifications. A notarised translation involves two people: the translator translates and signs, the notary certifies that the signature is genuine. The notary does not check the quality of the translation — only who produced it. So choose a translator with proven qualifications.
вас your answer «Вас» is genitive or accusative. «Благодарен» requires the dative: grateful to whom? вам correct с вами your answer «С вами» is instrumental, answering “with whom”. You are grateful to someone, not with them. The short adjective «благодарен» governs the dative: благодарен вам. Nearby sit similar words with different government: «спасибо вам» (dative) but «благодарю вас» (accusative) — one is a verb, the other an adjective.
В 2014 году correct В 1991 году your answer 1991 is the break-up of the USSR. Crimea then remained part of newly independent Ukraine. В 2022 году your answer 2022 is the start of the special military operation and treaties on other territories. Crimea joined Russia eight years earlier. The treaty was signed on 18 March 2014; the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol joined Russia. The event is in the exam codifier and the date is asked. Do not confuse it with 2022: different events, different territories.
Поэт и писатель correct Композитор your answer The list also has composers — Glinka and Tchaikovsky. Pushkin wrote poetry and prose, not music. Учёный your answer The scientists on the list are Lomonosov, Mendeleev, Popov and Kurchatov. Pushkin had nothing to do with science. Alexander Pushkin was a poet and writer regarded as the founder of the modern Russian literary language. The codifier lists thirteen names in four groups: literature (Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Mikhalkov), science and technology (Lomonosov, Mendeleev, Popov, Kurchatov, Korolev, Kalashnikov), music (Glinka, Tchaikovsky) and space (Gagarin). Learn them by group, not as a list.
Изобрёл радио your answer Radio is associated with Alexander Popov. Both were scientists, but their discoveries differ. Создал периодическую систему химических элементов correct Руководил первым полётом человека в космос your answer The space programme was led by Sergei Korolev and the flight was made by Yuri Gagarin. Mendeleev lived a century earlier. Dmitry Mendeleev created the periodic table of the chemical elements, the chart that hangs in every school chemistry room. Each scientist in the codifier group has his own discovery: Lomonosov founded Moscow University, Mendeleev the table, Popov radio, Kurchatov atomic physics, Korolev the rockets, Kalashnikov the rifle.
«Преступление и наказание» your answer Crime and Punishment was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Both writers are on the codifier list and are often confused. «Евгений Онегин» your answer Eugene Onegin is Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, written half a century before Tolstoy. «Война и мир» correct Lev Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, set during the Patriotic War of 1812. The three writers in the codifier attach to their books: Pushkin to Eugene Onegin, Tolstoy to War and Peace, Dostoevsky to Crime and Punishment. Sergei Mikhalkov is on the same list as the author of the words of the national anthem.
Первым в мире полетел в космос correct Создал автомат Калашникова your answer The rifle was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose surname is in its name. Both are in the codifier, but their fields differ. Написал музыку государственного гимна your answer The anthem's music was written by Alexander Alexandrov and its words by Sergei Mikhalkov. Gagarin was a cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. In the codifier list he stands next to Sergei Korolev, the designer who built the rockets but never flew. It is a common pairing in the exam: one built, the other flew.
Пётр Чайковский your answer Tchaikovsky was a nineteenth-century composer, author of the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. He had nothing to do with the anthem. Сергей Михалков correct Михаил Ломоносов your answer Lomonosov lived in the eighteenth century — a scientist and founder of Moscow University. The anthem was written much later. The words of the national anthem were written by Sergei Mikhalkov and the music by Alexander Alexandrov. The anthem is one of the three state symbols alongside the flag and coat of arms, so a question about it may come from either the symbols section or the names section.
Полководец your answer The commanders in Russian history are Suvorov, Kutuzov and Zhukov. Kalashnikov did not command troops; he designed weapons. Физик, работавший над атомным проектом your answer The atomic project was led by Igor Kurchatov. Both are on the list, but in different fields. Конструктор стрелкового оружия correct Mikhail Kalashnikov was a small-arms designer and creator of the rifle that bears his name. He closes the list of names in the codifier. The easiest way to learn them is in pairs of name and achievement: Kurchatov and the atom, Korolev and the rocket, Kalashnikov and the rifle, Popov and radio.
Если человек сменил профессию your answer Changing occupation does not affect a permanent residence permit: it is tied neither to an employer nor to a speciality. That is how it differs from a patent. Если при получении были сообщены заведомо ложные сведения correct Если человек переехал в другой регион your answer A permanent residence permit is valid nationwide. Moving requires new registration at the new address but does not cancel the status. The grounds for cancelling a permanent residence permit are listed in law, and the first is giving knowingly false information when obtaining it. Hence the simplest and most valuable rule: put the truth on the papers. A lie surfaces years later, and the whole road travelled — temporary permit, permanent permit and time — goes with it.
Ничем, это два названия одного документа your answer They are different steps with different rights and different exams. First the temporary permit, then permanent residence. ВНЖ даёт гражданство автоматически your answer Citizenship is never granted automatically at any step. It is a separate procedure with its own exam and requirements. ВНЖ бессрочный или долгосрочный и позволяет работать без патента по всей стране correct A temporary residence permit is issued for a fixed period and ties you to a region; a permanent permit is valid nationwide, allows work without a patent and does not restrict occupation. It is the second of three steps — temporary, permanent, citizenship — each with its own exam and thresholds.
Паспорт и документ о своём статусе — вид на жительство или разрешение correct Только справку с работы your answer A letter from your employer does not prove lawful stay. It speaks to employment, not to the right to be in the country. Ничего, документы носить с собой не обязательно your answer Document checks are a lawful procedure and you must produce them. A passport left at home turns a short check into a long one. Carry your passport and the document proving your status — a permanent or temporary residence permit. The set is simpler for a permanent resident than for someone working on a patent, where the passport is joined by the migration card, the registration stub and the patent with its payment receipts.
Нет, решения государственных органов обжалованию не подлежат your answer Everyone in Russia has the right to judicial protection. Decisions of public authorities can be appealed — that is what courts are for. Да, решение можно обжаловать в суде correct Только если он гражданин России your answer The right to judicial protection does not depend on citizenship. It belongs to everyone in the country. A decision cancelling your status, like other decisions of state bodies, can be appealed in court. The right to judicial protection belongs to everyone and does not depend on citizenship. The practical consequence: on receiving a refusal or a cancellation notice, do not simply leave — appeal periods are limited, and the decision itself states them.
Один, он хранится у работодателя your answer One copy must stay with the worker. If it is not handed over, there will be nothing to prove the terms of employment. Три: работнику, работодателю и в налоговую your answer The contract is not filed with the tax office. There are two copies, and the second is yours. Два: по одному у каждой стороны correct An employment contract is made in writing in two copies: one stays with the employer, the other is given to the worker. That second copy is the only thing that will later prove the terms and the pay to a labour inspectorate or a court. Take it on your first day.
Многонациональный народ Российской Федерации correct Правительство your answer The government exercises executive power but is not its source. Under the Constitution the source of power is the people. Отдельные субъекты Федерации your answer The constituent regions are part of the state and hold their own powers, but the Constitution names the people as a whole as the source of authority. The Constitution names the multi-ethnic people of the Russian Federation as the bearer of sovereignty and the sole source of power. The word “multi-ethnic” is not decorative: it means the peoples of the country are equal, and the ban on discrimination by ethnicity, language or religion rests on it.
