Certyfikat Polskiego A1 common mistakes
Certyfikat Polskiego A1 · Understand the traps and how to avoid them.
Choosing a familiar word without checking the question.
A passage may mention several people, places, or objects with different roles.
What to do instead
Identify who, where, when, how much, or what action is actually requested.
Ignoring nie, bez, tylko, or ale.
Small words can reverse or limit the meaning.
What to do instead
Mark the whole positive, negative, or contrasting phrase before choosing.
Treating origin, residence, and destination as the same place.
Skąd, gdzie, and dokąd ask different questions.
What to do instead
Read the preposition and the relationship it expresses.
Using one unchanged adjective or verb form with every noun or subject.
Polish agreement and common case patterns affect the form.
What to do instead
Learn complete useful phrases and compare the role of each ending.
Combining numbers that label different facts.
A building number, apartment, age, time, and price are not interchangeable.
What to do instead
Name what each quantity represents before answering or calculating.
Selecting the first proposal after the reply corrects it.
Nie followed by a replacement can change the final hour, day, item, or transport.
What to do instead
Track the final accepted or stated information.
Calling visible-script reading a listening test.
No recorded auditory performance was observed.
What to do instead
Label the activity honestly and hide the script for partner-read practice.
Confusing similar number words.
Pięć, piętnaście, and pięćdziesiąt express different values.
What to do instead
Practice them in context and verify the full quantity and reference.
Treating every polite expression as the same function.
A greeting, request, acceptance, refusal, and permission differ.
What to do instead
Use the whole exchange, not proszę or dziękuję in isolation.
Adding certainty or precision absent from the script.
Około and other context can make a time approximate or limited.
What to do instead
Preserve the actual day, part of day, quantity, and strength of the statement.