United States Citizenship Test
The 2025 civics test is spoken. An officer asks up to 20 of the 128 questions out loud at your naturalization interview, you answer in your own words, and it stops the moment you have 12 right. That is almost twice the questions of the older test, from a pool nearly a third larger. Nothing about it is hidden: USCIS publishes all 128 questions along with the answers it accepts, so the whole job is knowing the list.
Practice here is multiple choice, in both the units and the full test. The interview is spoken, so this page once asked you to type your answer instead, and that turned out to punish people for wording a right answer differently from USCIS, which is the one thing an officer would not do. Work through the units to learn the list, then sit the full test to check it holds. There is no official clock at the interview, so the 20 minutes on the full test is our own limit rather than a real rule.
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About the USCIS Naturalization Civics Test
The civics test is the one part of United States naturalization with a public syllabus. USCIS publishes the full question list along with the answers it accepts, so there is nothing hidden to guess at: know the list and you cannot be surprised.
The 2025 edition asks more of you than the one it replaced. The pool is one hundred and twenty eight questions, the officer asks up to twenty, and twelve have to be right. Work through the units to learn the list a topic at a time, then sit the full test, which draws its twenty from across every topic rather than leaving your weakest subject to chance.
Common questions
Which civics test will I be given?
It depends on your filing date. Filed on or after 20 October 2025, you sit the 2025 test: one hundred and twenty eight questions in the pool, up to twenty asked, twelve to pass. That is the practice on this page. Filed before that date and you sit the 2008 test instead, which has its own practice here.
What changed in the 2025 test?
The pool grew from one hundred questions to one hundred and twenty eight, the officer now asks up to twenty rather than ten, and you need twelve right rather than six. The format did not change: it is still spoken, still open answer, and it still stops as soon as you have enough correct.
Is the real civics test multiple choice?
No. The officer asks each question out loud and you answer in your own words, so any correct phrasing counts. Practice here is multiple choice anyway, because there is no fair way for a website to mark a spoken answer: a right answer worded differently from the official list came back wrong, and that teaches you nothing an officer would ever tell you. Read the answer you picked back to yourself out loud and you have covered the difference.
What happens if you fail?
You get a second chance. USCIS re-tests you on the portion you failed at a second interview, normally sixty to ninety days later.
Is the civics test the whole naturalization test?
No. There is also an English test covering reading, writing and speaking. The speaking part is judged from your ordinary conversation with the officer during the same interview.
Are there exemptions for older applicants?
Yes. Applicants who are sixty-five or older and have been permanent residents for at least twenty years study only the twenty questions USCIS marks with an asterisk. The officer asks ten of those twenty and you need six right, and you may take it in your own language.