U.S. Citizenship Test 2025: How It Works & How to Pass (Ep. 1)

Here is exactly how the United States citizenship test works, and how to pass it, in just a few minutes.

The civics test is one part of your naturalization interview, and it is a spoken test. An officer asks you questions out loud, and you answer out loud. There is no multiple choice, and nothing to write.

Which version you take depends on one thing: the date you filed your Form N four hundred. The cutoff is October twentieth, twenty twenty-five.

If you filed before that date, you take the two thousand eight test. There are one hundred questions in the pool. The officer asks up to ten, and you need six correct to pass.

If you filed on or after that date, you take the twenty twenty-five test. The pool grows to one hundred twenty-eight questions. The officer asks up to twenty, and you need twelve correct.

Either way, you are never asked the whole list. The pool is your study set, not the length of the test.

The officer stops the moment you reach the passing number, so a perfect score is unnecessary. On the twenty twenty-five test, you can miss up to eight questions and still pass.

One special case: if you are age sixty-five or older and have been a green card holder for at least twenty years, you study just the twenty starred questions. You are asked ten, and need six to pass.

The questions come from three areas. American Government, like the Constitution and the three branches. American History, from independence through recent times. And Integrated Civics: geography, symbols, and holidays.

Let us try three real questions. First: what is the supreme law of the land? The answer is the Constitution.

Second: why did the colonists fight the British? One correct answer is high taxes without representation.

Third: name one United States territory. You could say Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands.

Because it is a spoken test, study out loud. Look up the current answers for your state, and drill real questions until they are automatic.

So remember three things: it is a spoken test, your filing date sets your version, and you only need to reach the passing number.

Start now with a free, ten question mock test at Quibank dot com. It is free, in English, Chinese, and Spanish, with no sign up.