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Canadian citizenship test: free practice exam
Twenty questions from the ten chapters of Discover Canada, 15 correct answers to pass, as in the real test. Answer below and watch your score against the mark.
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Practice questions written by Radif Partners from the facts of the official guide. Not the official test.
The Canadian citizenship test is a 45-minute test of 20 questions, multiple choice or true or false, offered in English or French. You pass with at least 15 correct answers, and IRCC gives you 3 chances to pass. Every applicant aged 18 to 54 must take it; children under 18 do not. The questions cover the rights and responsibilities of citizens and Canada's history, geography, economy, government, laws and symbols, all taken from the free official study guide, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship. The test does not grade your English or French, which you prove separately at level CLB/NCLC 4. You do not book it yourself: IRCC invites you once your application is being processed, so the first task is to be eligible, with 1,095 days of physical presence in the last 5 years. The practice exam above draws 20 of our 150 English questions across the guide's chapters and marks them with the same rule.
Did I pass the Canadian citizenship test?
Result
Pass
| Pass mark | 15 of 20 (75%) |
| Your score | 80% |
| Margin | 1 above the mark |
Questions, dates and fees by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · How the questions and dates are built
The test in figures
| Rule | Figure |
|---|---|
| Questions | 20 |
| Correct answers to pass | 15 (75%) |
| Time | 45 minutes |
| Chances to pass | 3 |
| Who takes it | applicants aged 18 to 54 |
| Languages | English or French |
| Separate fee | none, it is part of the application |
With 45 minutes for 20 questions there is time to read each one twice. The mark leaves room for 5 mistakes, no more: a sixth wrong answer is a fail.
What the ten chapters ask
Discover Canada is short, about the length of a long magazine, but dense. Our 150 questions follow its ten chapters, about 15 per chapter. Some themes deserve more time than their page count suggests:
- Government and elections. The difference between federal, provincial and municipal powers, the roles of the Sovereign, the Governor General and the Prime Minister, how a bill becomes law, and who can vote. Many wrong answers come from mixing up two levels of government.
- History. A long chain of events from the first peoples and New France to Confederation, the World Wars and the Charter. Dates matter less than the order of events and why they mattered.
- Regions and symbols. Provinces, territories and capitals, the five regions, the flag, the anthem, the national symbols. Easy points if you learn them, lost points if you do not.
- Rights and responsibilities. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, equality of women and men, and what a citizen owes in return, from obeying the law to serving on a jury.
The practice page lets you work one chapter at a time, and the question list shows every question with its answer.
From application to test
Unlike the Life in the UK Test, the Canadian test is not something you book. You send your application with the fee of C$653 for an adult, IRCC checks that it is complete, and you then receive an invitation to the test. That is why eligibility comes first: the requirements are checked on the day you apply, so an application sent before the last of your days are reached does not meet them, whatever your test score would have been. The physical presence calculator finds the first day on which your 1,095 days are met, counting each trip, and the eligibility page lists the other conditions.
How to get ready in three weeks
- Week one: read Discover Canada once from cover to cover without taking notes, then do one practice set per chapter with the correction shown at once.
- Week two: go back to the chapters where you scored below eight out of ten, read them again and redo their sets with new draws.
- Week three: take full practice exams with the correction at the end, as in the real test, until you clear the mark with a margin several times in a row.
Pace is a matter of taste, but the order matters: chapter work first, full exams last.
Our questions and the official test
IRCC does not publish its question bank. Our questions were written by Radif Partners from the facts of Discover Canada, never copied from it or from any other source, and each names the chapter where the answer can be checked. Questions on who holds office today and on facts that have changed since the guide was printed are left out. They train you on the right material; the real test will word things its own way.