Civics test practice

20 questions drawn from the official 128, 12 correct answers to pass, and an explanation after every one. At the interview an officer asks them out loud, so you can practice that way too.

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Civics test · Multiple choice

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Which test?

Civics test 20 questions, 12 correct answers to pass. The officer stops asking at 12 correct or 9 wrong. 65/20 special consideration For applicants 65 or older with 20 years as permanent residents: 10 questions from the designated list, 6 correct answers to pass.

How do you want to practice?

Multiple choice Four options, corrected as you go. The wrong options are written by us to study with. Like the interview Read the question, answer in your own words, then reveal the official answers and grade yourself.

Keyboard: A to D (or 1 to 4) to answer, L to listen, Enter to continue.

A worked example

A test of 20 questions does not always run to the end, because it stops as soon as the result is decided. Here are two made-up tests, scored the way this practice scores them.

Two practice tests on the 20-question version
Test	Correct	Wrong	Questions asked	Result
Ana	12	3	15	Passes
Luis	4	9	13	Does not pass

Ana gives her 12th correct answer on question 15. She has already passed, so the remaining 5 questions are never asked, and her 3 misses along the way cost her nothing. Luis gives his 9th wrong answer on question 13. Even if he got all 7 remaining questions right, he would finish with 11 correct, short of 12, so the test stops there.

The shortest possible test is 12 questions, all of them right. The longest is 20: after 11 correct and 8 wrong the result is still open, and the next answer settles it either way. The order of your answers changes how long the test lasts, never whether you pass.

The 65/20 version

If you choose the 65/20 test above, you get 10 questions from the designated list and need 6 correct. Say Rosa answers 6 right and 4 wrong: she passes with nothing to spare. With 5 right she would not. On this version too, as on the standard test, USCIS counts an answer that gives the correct one in other words, which matters when you grade yourself in the "Like the interview" mode. The 65/20 guide explains who qualifies.

How this practice test differs from the interview

The questions and the accepted answers are the official ones. Three things work differently here, and each one changes how you should read your results.

The officer gives you no options. At the interview you hear the question and answer in your own words. Picking an answer from four is easier than recalling it, so once you pass the multiple choice test comfortably, switch to "Like the interview".
The wrong options are ours. We write them to look plausible, and they never appear at the interview. Each question's page shows only the accepted answers and the explanation behind them.
Some questions are left out of the draw. Of the 128, the practice picks from 120. The 4 whose answer depends on where you live have no single answer to check, and the 4 about current officeholders change with elections and appointments (who holds each office now). The officer can still ask any of them, so study them before your interview.

How the officer counts a mistake, and what happens if you fail, is in the scoring guide.

Study the questions

All 128 questions are listed by category, each with its accepted answers and an explanation of why the answer is what it is: the 128 civics questions.

If a run of tests starts to feel repetitive, the civics games drill the same official answers in shorter bursts, and the English test practice covers the reading and writing part of the interview.

How the real test is scored

USCIS reports that 95.7% of applicants pass the naturalization test, and more than 88% did so at the first interview in fiscal year 2022, before the 2025 version of the civics test. What counts as a mistake in each part, and what happens after a failed part, is in the scoring guide.