French acronyms and abbreviations

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Acronyms in the DELF

In the DELF, acronyms appear in the DOCUMENTS, not in the instructions: a job advert (CDI, SMIC), a station sign (TGV, TER), a payslip (URSSAF, RTT).
A1 and A2: you recognise them without expanding them (RDV, SNCF, CDI). B1 and B2: you write them yourself, with their article (un CDI, la CAF) and no dots between the letters.
Texting abbreviations (mdr, tkt, slt) are never written in an exam paper: you understand them in a document, you do not produce them.

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Contracts, pay, the company: what a job advert and a payslip write in letters.

Public bodies, papers, the address and the post: the acronyms of forms and the abbreviations on an envelope.

Bank, prices, taxes: what a receipt and a bank statement abbreviate.

Trains, metro, road: what a station sign and a ticket write in three letters.

The advert, the lease, the allowances: the abbreviations of a property advert and the acronyms of a rental file.

Diplomas, university, the French exam, and the abbreviations of written work: cf., etc., p. ex.

Social security, hospital, specialists: what a prescription and an appointment card abbreviate.

The clipped words said every day (resto, ciné, ordi) and the acronyms read everywhere (UE, OGM, SMS).

Texting only · Never written in an exam paper

The spellings of texts and chat: you understand them in a friend's message, you never write them in an exam.

Two acronyms people search together, and what separates them.