TORFL

1. Certificate in TORFL Elementary (A1) confirms that you can be successful in simplest communicative needs for social, welfare and educational and professional spheres of communication according the standard of Russian as a foreign language. However, the elementary competence in Russian as a foreign language is not enough to study at the Russian educational institutions. 
2. Certificate in TORFL Basic (A2) confirms that individual can be successful in simplest social and cultural communication. 
3. Level B1 confirms ability to succeed in everyday, educational and professional communication. TORFL 1 Certificate gives international applicants access to Russian higher education. However if test takers choose to continue their education in college, their will have to complete an extra section which will test abilities to achieve minimum communicative objectives in the student’s area of professional/academic communication. 
4. Certification Level 2 (B2) confirms a relatively high level of communicative competence in all communicative contexts. The second level of competence in Russian as a foreign language is required for receiving bachelor’s or master’s degrees at the Russian institutions (except for bachelor’s or master’s degree in philology). 
5. Certification Level 3 (C1) is evidence of high level of language competence in all communicative contexts, it allows individuals to conduct language-related professional activity in Russian (e.g. Linguistics, Translation, Editing, Journalism, International Relations, Business Management). This Certificate is a necessity for receiving a Bachelor’s degree in philology. 
6. Certification Level 4 (C2) reflects that language competence is close to educated native speaker knowledge of the language. This Certificate is a necessity for receiving a Master’s degree in philology. 

The minimum success score is 66 in each subtest. If you have a less than minimum TORFL score in a subtest, you can retake it for an extra charge amounting to 50 percent of the TRKI/TORFL fee.