The TORFL test assesses foreign citizens' skills to express various communicative intentions in the writing form using correct words and phrases, to understand different types of written information in Russian, to comprehend information in Russian given aurally, to participate in dialogues and to produce the monologue according to the proposed subject.
The form and procedure of issuing the TORFL certificates are determined by the Order of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation of 25 April 2014 No.
This Order states that 10 days is the maximum period for issuing a certificate, but the testing organizations seek to do this faster.
SPbU issues a reference in national languages with grades for each subtest attached to the certificate.
The universities listed in the Order are the only organizations authorized to conduct the TORFL test.