The exam consists of a written and an oral test.
Written exam: for the students attending lessons, the written exam is divided in 3 tests during the year, consisting of:
- Dictation
- grammar test
- short composition (on one of the topics discussed during the year).
The whole exam takes place without a dictionary; students can, however, use the glossary developed during the year for writing short composition.
Successful results in these tests allows access to the oral exam (see below). There are no forms of recovery of failed tests.
The oral exam consists of:
- reading, morphosyntactic analysis and sight translation of a short text in Russian;
- explanation in Italian of a topic of morphosyntax (also for students of Russian mother tongue);
- conversation on the topics related to the readings taken from BONCIANI D., ROMAGNOLI R., SMYKUNOVA N., Mir tesen. Fundamentals of Russian culture, Hoepli 2016, pp. 2-30; 39-50;
- conversation on the topics introduced by the CEL during the practice;
The oral examination can only be accessed after passing the written test.

For those students who have not passed the 3 tests during the year, for students not attending lessons and for the FC there will be a final written exam and an oral one of the same type.
The written exam is valid for three sessions. The student can choose to take the oral exam in the same session of the written exam or in one of the following two.
Assessment
The written and oral exam is evaluated in thirtieths, making the average of the marks obtained in the two parts. The following importance is attributed to the three parts of the written exam: dictation: up to 10 points (sufficiency: 6. Ortho- and calyx-graphic errors are also considered), test: up to 10 points (sufficiency: 6), short composition: up to 10 points (sufficiency: 6). To pass the written exam, all three parts must be sufficient.