How is the traffic police exam retaken?

General information about the examination procedure

In 2014, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted a new resolution No. 1097, which regulates the issue of access to driving vehicles. First of all, a driver candidate needs to know that the exam takes place in two stages - theory and practice.

They are usually carried out on the same day. The same regulatory act specifies the rules for retaking the exam in the traffic police.

The practical stage of the license exam, in turn, is divided into two parts:

1. Performing five exercises on the driver's platform;
2. Examination for driving license in real, urban conditions.

The question often arises: is another exam necessary when replacing a driver’s license? No, the procedure does not involve taking another exam again. But we advise you to read the traffic rules when replacing your license, because there are rumors that you will need to take the theory test.

In the latter option, the route can be learned in advance. It is important to know which gearbox the driver wants to drive. If the choice falls on an automatic transmission, then the certificate will make a special note that such a driver cannot drive a car with a manual transmission.

What is a theoretical exam

The theoretical exam is a computer test of the knowledge of driving school students, which consists of 20 questions. This number of tasks is not fixed, since for each error in a topic, the examinee will be offered five test questions on a similar topic.

Who delivers and when?

In order for a driver candidate to begin taking the theoretical exam, he must meet the following requirements:

1. Complete your training at a driving school and receive a document confirming this fact. At the time of passing the theoretical test, he must have successfully passed all internal exams of the driving school.
2. His age is in the range of over 17 years (if passed at this age, a driver's license will be issued after reaching the age of majority). There is no upper limit to this value.
3. Have a medical certificate confirming the absence of contraindications to driving a vehicle.

The theoretical exam does not always take place en masse on the same day with the same flow from the driving school where the cadets studied. All exams can be distributed over different days and weeks, depending on the workload of the State Traffic Inspectorate.

In order to take the exam, you must submit a package of documents to the traffic police inspector and sign up for free time. To facilitate interaction and speed up the procedure, most often this function is performed by a driving school instructor.

How the exam works

The theory is taken only in the form of computer testing; paper tickets with questions are a thing of the past. General principles for passing this stage:

• the cadet is asked to answer 20 questions in 20 minutes. If he successfully completes all tasks within the agreed period, then this exam is considered successfully completed;
• the total volume of tasks is conditionally divided into 4 topics (5 questions each). For each situation, 3-4 possible answers are offered, of which only one is correct;
• When making one mistake on one topic, the student is asked to additionally answer 5 more questions on a similar topic (to identify gaps in knowledge). The exam time, in this case, increases by 5 minutes;
• if two mistakes were made in different topics, then an additional 10 questions and 10 minutes of extra time will be assigned;
• the exam is considered failed if at least one of the conditions is met: the cadet made two or more errors in one topic (not in additional questions);
• the student has three or more errors in different topics;
• the cadet made a mistake in one of the additionally assigned questions;
• The exam time has expired, and some tasks remain uncompleted.

Upon completion of the theoretical exam, information about the correct and incorrect answer options is displayed on the computer screen. If desired, you can contact the inspector for clarification of unclear cases and tasks. The test results are transferred by the examiner to the examination sheet. All students who successfully complete this stage are admitted to the next stage – the race track.

Why do they get retaken?

In fact, retaking the traffic police exam may be a reality for everyone. During the test, knowledge can fail you. Experts recommend memorizing the answers to exam questions in advance or mastering all the rules of the law. And if at this stage only the subjective factor plays a big role, then at the practical stage objective problems may also arise.

Yes, it is quite possible that the candidate will become overexcited, fall into a stupor, etc. But it is possible that a situation will arise on the road that will be difficult for even experienced drivers to solve in traffic situations. In any case, the examiner will give penalty points for mistakes made in this case, and thus the person will have to retake the exam.

The “site” dissolves into the “city”

Until now, the traffic police exam was divided into three large parts, assessed separately. This is a theoretical course consisting of questions on traffic rules, a set of fixed exercises on a race track and city driving. This order has existed for many decades, but now the situation is changing. It was decided to abandon the “platform” in favor of a more thorough assessment of the skills of young drivers.

Article on the topic Useful knowledge. Life before, during and after driving school The need to adjust the examination tests arose to reduce the number of accidents that young drivers get into in the first year after receiving their license.

Training in driving schools now proceeds according to a simple scenario. Most of the time, driver candidates are trained on the “platform”, where they spend hours learning to feel the dimensions of the car, turn around in tight spaces, enter the garage and park. However, there is little time left to practice city driving skills. As a result, the future driver enters the roads insufficiently prepared and gets lost when dangerous situations arise. Therefore, the evaluation criteria will change.

“First of all, we have expanded the testing of knowledge not only theoretical, but also practical. The candidate driver will be assessed in real traffic conditions and based on these tests will be allowed to participate in road traffic, including on highways, parking lots and at complex intersections. Particular attention will be paid to driving skills in real situations - on highways, interchanges, intersections,” said the head of the Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, Mikhail Chernikov.

The test on initial driving skills will be a thing of the past; now all the elements inherent in the “platform” will be tested on the roads, which significantly complicates the work of a young driver. He will have to park the car not in a well-known place on the race track, but on the street where the examiner indicates. The same goes for maneuvering in confined spaces and other exercises. Based on the student's behavior, the inspector will be able to quickly assess his preparation.

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How to sign up for a retake?

There are three ways that can help you get another chance to acquire the right to drive a vehicle at the traffic police and get retaken.

• In the first case, this can be done through the driving school where the driver was trained. This procedure is the simplest, because cadets of a certain school take the exam quite often.
• In the second option, you must have a certificate of completion of a driving school. If this is the case, you can safely go on your own for a repeat exam at the traffic police. This procedure is suitable for people who cannot pass the exam for various reasons for 6 months or more.
• The following is the simplest option. Without leaving home, anyone can sign up to take the exam through the official State Services portal. There you can choose a suitable and convenient time for yourself. As many as possible It is possible to review the available places for delivery on a certain day.

How long does the theoretical exam last?

The result of the theoretical knowledge test is valid for 6 calendar months, starting from the date of successful completion of the exam. Since it is possible to retake practical driving only at a certain interval (7 and 30 days), the cadet has a total of 8 attempts to retake the practice.

If he does not complete the six months allotted to him, he will need to retake the theoretical part and only after that begin the practical exercises again.

Where and how can I retake

Retaking any type of traffic police exam (both theory and practice) is scheduled for the first time no earlier than a week after an unsuccessful attempt. This interval (7 days) is observed until the third attempt to retake the theory. Starting from the third time, it is possible to appear for a repeat exam only after a month. The total number of retakes has no quantitative or time restrictions.

The indicated dates do not mean that the day of new testing will be scheduled in a week or month. They indicate the deadlines after which the cadet can contact the State Traffic Inspectorate to re-register for the test. The date assigned to him can be either in the next week or in a month. It all depends on the volume of students and the current queue.

An important nuance - if you need to pick up documents from one traffic police department and contact another (for example, to speed up the registration), then in this case all previous attempts to pass the theoretical part will expire and the countdown will begin again. That is, the first retake will be scheduled again in 7 days, and the third and subsequent ones in one month.

If the cadet decided to “deceive” the system and come for the retake ahead of schedule and he succeeded (the inspector did not check the date of the previous test), then at the time the driver’s license is issued this deception will be revealed (all test dates are recorded and verified). As a result, all completed tests will be canceled and everything will have to start all over again.

Where to contact

The principle of registering for the repeated passing of the theoretical part of the test is no different from registering for the first time. To do this, you will need to submit a complete package of documents and a receipt confirming payment of the state duty to the State Traffic Inspectorate in any convenient way:

• through the driving school where the training took place;
• in person when visiting the desired traffic police department;
• remotely using a single portal of State Services.

After checking the submitted documents, the cadet will be assigned free time to visit the State Traffic Inspectorate and pass the test.

Retake price?

More recently, until 2010, the state charged a fairly large fee for retaking the theoretical and practical parts. Today, the procedure is cheaper, but if successful, the driver must also pay the cost of the fee for issuing a driver’s license.

You can ask how much it costs to retake the traffic police exam at your driving school.

• It is worth focusing on the amount of 1000 rubles for retaking the theoretical part, 1000 rubles for the auto site and 1500 rubles for the urban practical part.
• You will have to pay a large sum for the certificate and it will cost several times more - up to 2000 rubles.

State duty

In order for a cadet to be allowed to take the theoretical stage of testing for the first time, he will need to pay a state fee of 2,000 rubles. When registering through the State Services portal, this amount is reduced to 1,400 rubles. All subsequent retakes of the theoretical part in the traffic police are absolutely free. You only need to regularly attach to your documents a copy of the receipt confirming payment of the state duty for the first time.

The theoretical part is the first stage in passing the exam to obtain a driver's license. It is carried out at the traffic police department, using computer testing. The number of attempts to retake the theory is not limited, but you will need to wait the due date and sign up for the test again. A successfully passed theoretical exam is valid for six months.

Number of attempts allowed

The legislation establishes certain retake deadlines, which do not allow the procedure to be repeated every day. The question of how many times you can retake the exam in the traffic police is limited only by the time frame.

Thus, you can retake the theoretical part only twice every seven days, and the subsequent attempt should be made only at an interval of 30 days. Retaking the exam at the traffic police inspection in 2021 at the racetrack and in urban conditions will have an identical scheme.

If you count, then in six months the exams are retaken only 8 times. But in real conditions, as practice has shown, you can sign up for a free place for a retake in an average of three months. It is better to ask more specifically how many times you can take it to the traffic police.

New rules for retaking exams in the traffic police in 2018

When the submitted documents are verified - this usually takes 2-3 days - a day and time for the re-examination are set. If you failed the theoretical part of the test during the initial driving test, you will have to retake both the theory and driving tests. In the second case, subjects only need to pass driving tests on the site and in the city, under real road conditions.

We described in detail all stages of the exam procedure in this article. Here we mention some important innovations:

the examinee has the right to videotape the practical examination. Of course, you won’t be able to pass the exam with a camera, so the role of the videographer is entrusted to relatives, friends, etc. This innovation was introduced with the aim of quickly and clearly resolving possible controversial issues;

Driver's license applicants are allowed to choose whether they will test their driving test in a manual or automatic vehicle. Just keep in mind that your ID will definitely have a corresponding note.

Let’s say a person successfully passed both the theoretical part and driving on the site, but failed to successfully pass the test in real urban conditions. Should he then re-prove his ability to maneuver on the court? There is no evasive answer to this question, it is unambiguous - next time there is no need to demonstrate the execution of elements on a race track or site!

Another issue is that there are no strict time limits for demonstrating practical driving skills. That is, the person in uniform must by law provide as many minutes as required to complete all tasks at the race track. And if he is in a hurry, tugging at you, rushing you, then video recording is unlikely to help you. After all, the operator is located outside, not inside the car, and does not make a sound recording. That is, you are unlikely to be able to prove the fact of pressure from the inspector...

What should you take with you?

In order to undergo the new retake procedure at the State Traffic Inspectorate, the future driver will need to collect some documents to present to the government authorities at the place where the exam is taken. These include:

• The certificate itself, if it was issued previously (for example, another category was already opened)
• A document confirming the fact of training in a driving school;
• Must have a medical certificate of admission to drive transport;
• A receipt from the bank indicating payment of state fees.

It often happens that such documents are lost from a person. Without at least one of them, there will be no chance of getting admission to retake the exam.

If you have lost your certificate from a driving school, you can ask for a duplicate, but the service may be paid. If you lose your medical document, you will have to go through the commission one more time. People often ask: do I need to pay several times, do I always need a new receipt from the bank? Yes, with each new retake you need to pay a new receipt.

Retaking the traffic police exam: the cost of the issue

As such, we do not have a fee for retaking the exam, although quite recently it was necessary to pay a state fee for each attempt. Accordingly, there is no need to fear that the amount will grow astronomically with each failure. That is, you pay exclusively for a driver’s license, and according to the Tax Code, one-time for services:

500 rubles for paper “crusts”;

2,000 rubles if you receive a plastic ID;

1,600 rubles are charged for an international document.

And yet it will not be possible to do without additional expenses. Since the driving school provides you with a specially equipped car to retake, you must pay for its rental. How much depends on the appetites of the management of this institution; price fluctuations can be very wide.

Helpful advice: to reduce costs, apply for retaking the exam and issuing a driver’s license through the State Services portal. When paying through this resource, you will be given a 30 percent discount for obtaining a license to drive a vehicle.

Retaking the exam through State Services

In just a few clicks you receive a whole range of remote services. These include not only paying fines, but also obtaining/renewing a driver’s license and submitting documents to retake the exam at the traffic police. And this is not advertising, but very pleasant realities. If only because you don’t have to jostle in line. True, there are also non-critical inconveniences in the form of lengthy verification of information, technical problems and the obligation to submit documents in scanned form. But you get a free one: instead of 2,000 rubles for a plastic ID, you pay here, at State Services, 1,400 non-cash rubles.

First you need to go through the registration procedure. When you have provided personal information, you need to confirm it. There are three ways to do this: visiting the MFC office, or sending a request by email. If you encounter technical glitches or other problems, please call support.

When personal data is confirmed, documents in digital format should be uploaded to the system:

statement;

passport or military ID;

document confirming completion of driving courses;

SNILS, if you plan to retake the theoretical exam;

medical certificate.

Attach documents to the application, send them to the email address specified on the portal - and that’s it, wait for a response!

How long to wait before retaking the exam

Unfortunately, there are quite frequent cases when, due to the large number, it is possible to undergo the same procedure only after a couple of months. This is the maximum period, usually it is less. And no one is stopping you from tracking tickets for an earlier time, which will bring the hour of testing closer. When exactly the user is invited to retake, it will be known in the personal account where the invitation to visit the traffic police was received.

Retake the exam in another region

Typically, future motorists choose a school close to home or work, and are sent to their place of residence (official registration) to take theory and practice tests. But it is important to emphasize that this is not a requirement.

You can give many reasons as an example of why it is impossible to pass and retake the exam at your place of registration. Usually the place of actual residence differs from the one recorded in the passport. And sometimes conflict situations arise with certain departments of the traffic police, whose employees deliberately destroy the candidate’s chances of becoming a driver. We should also remember the situation when there is no desire to stand in queues, and you have to choose another place to retake the exams at the traffic police.

Since November 2014, the government has allowed people to undergo the examination procedure outside their place of residence. This is enshrined in the above-mentioned resolution. Thus, you can take exams anywhere. A person only needs to choose the right traffic police department according to his desire and contact them. When replacing a driver's license, there is a similar procedure.

Registration for retaking the exam

Taking into account the latest amendments to the laws, an applicant for the right to drive a passenger car can take the test again, regardless of place of residence. You can submit an application for inspection either in paper form, submitting it to the traffic police department, or electronically, on the State Services website. We will talk about the latter option, which provides several advantages over the traditional one, below.

Accordingly, you can sign up for a retake at any other traffic police department, and not just the one where the initial check was carried out. Let’s say more: even at one of the stages of testing, you can change the institution, that is, you can take the theoretical knowledge test in one, and the driving test in another. However, to do this, you will need to transfer the examination sheet with the results obtained in the first department to the new department.

So, in addition to the application written on paper, you must provide the traffic police with a package of documents, which includes:

passport or other identification document. It’s easier for those who served in the army - they can only show a military ID;

document confirming completion of a driving school. Public or private – it doesn’t matter;

medical report on health status;

applicants aged 16-18 additionally need to present permission from the legal representative of their rights, i.e. an adult. Of course, usually these are parents, but there are also cases of guardianship. However, this document is not required for a new driver if he has acquired full legal capacity. For example, by getting married;

receipt of payment of state duty. Its presence is not a prerequisite, since traffic police officers have access to the corresponding electronic database.

What's important to remember?

If such a situation arises, then you must not lose your skills and knowledge before re-examining. On the theoretical side, you can often re-read regulations in this area (Road Rules, as the main one). It will also be useful to take an online test, which you can take on many Internet resources and test your knowledge of theory.

The practical part will be more difficult. It is important to always maintain driving skills at a basic level, which is quite possible to lose in three months. Many driving schools provide additional practical lessons. In this case, to be on the safe side, you can change schools.

Retaking the traffic police exam in 2021 after deprivation of rights

Any car owner knows that driving even a personal vehicle while intoxicated is a direct path to losing your license for a year and a half. However, transferring control to the same person, even if slightly drunk, is punishable by the same thing. And in order to get your certificates back, you will have to not only pass a theoretical exam at the traffic police, but also submit a medical certificate. After all, people in uniform need to be sure that the person is not registered with a narcologist. Moreover, the certificate must be dated no earlier than 30 days before the end of the time for which the car owner lost his rights.

A ban on driving a vehicle must be imposed by a court, and the offender has 10 days from the date it comes into force to appeal the punishment. During this period of time, he can use the car, but then within three days he is obliged to surrender his license to the traffic police department.

What is the difference between a traffic knowledge test when a license is revoked and regular testing?

Only one - in tickets, the content of which is standard, only aspects of traffic rules are affected. That is, the tickets do not contain tasks on knowing fines and providing first aid, but the preparation time is reduced to 20 minutes. The rest of the conditions are normal:

40 tickets (options);

each ticket contains 20 questions;

no more than two incorrect answers are allowed; For one incorrect answer, 5 additional questions from the same category are given.

When is it permissible to take an exam after deprivation of a license?

Not earlier than after half the term for which the court sentenced the car owner to punishment, i.e., at least after 9 months. If the attempt to pass the “theory” was unsuccessful, a repeat exam will take place no earlier than 7 days later.

Is it necessary to take an exam when your license is revoked for medical reasons?

If a car owner, when passing a medical commission, was given a verdict “not allowed to drive a vehicle,” then he can return his license only in one case. If after some time at the same medical examination nothing seditious is revealed, please get behind the wheel again. Accordingly, to return a driver’s license, it is enough to write an application to the traffic police and attach the “correct” medical certificate, and you do not need to take a theoretical exam.

How to return your license early

The answer is harsh, but this is the law: ahead of schedule - no way! However, the theoretical exam can be retaken in advance. And then, on the day the sentence ends, without unnecessary delay, you will present a document to this effect in combination with your passport and return the certificate. And don’t forget: if deprived for medical reasons, a medical certificate is additionally required.

Where to get a driver's license after deprivation

In principle, in any traffic police department, because you are in another city, and not in the locality where you retested your license. To do this, it is enough to write an application to the department at the place where the court decision is executed, indicating the traffic police department where it is most convenient to obtain a license. Moreover, it is recommended to draw up this document no later than a month before the end of the deprivation period. This gives confidence that a certificate will be sent by registered mail to the stated address. Why is it better not to delay writing an application? Because Russian Post is not the most efficient organization in our country, and it can take up to three weeks to deliver rights.

Life hack: the above-mentioned statement is best drawn up immediately after the court verdict. After all, 9-18 months is more than enough for traffic police officers to redirect a driver’s license to the specified address. There, where the retake of the “theory” will take place.

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