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Canadian citizenship test practice, chapter by chapter
Pick a chapter of Discover Canada, or mix them all, and answer ten questions with the correction shown at once.
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Practice questions written by Radif Partners from the facts of the official guide. Not the official test.
Practising chapter by chapter is the fastest way to find the parts of Discover Canada you do not know yet. Each set on this page holds ten questions from the chapter you choose, drawn from our bank of 150 English questions, and every answer is corrected straight away with a short explanation of the fact behind it. A new set draws other questions from the same chapter. The guide has ten chapters, from the rights and responsibilities of citizenship to Canada's regions, and the real test can ask about any of them: its 20 questions are spread across the whole guide and you need 15 right answers. Once each chapter gives you eight or more out of ten on fresh sets, move to the full practice exam, which is marked like the IRCC test. Applicants aged 18 to 54 take the test; the small tool below tells you whether you are one of them.
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Test and language proof
Yes, both
| Ages concerned | 18 to 54 |
| Questions | 20, 15 right to pass |
| Time | 45 minutes |
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The chapters and what they hold
| Chapter | Questions in our bank | What it is about |
|---|---|---|
| Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship | 15 | Charter rights, equality, responsibilities such as jury duty and voting |
| Who We Are | 15 | Indigenous peoples, English and French Canadians, diversity |
| Canada's History | 15 | From the first peoples and New France to Confederation and the World Wars |
| Modern Canada | 15 | The country after 1945: trade, social programmes, arts, sports |
| How Canadians Govern Themselves | 15 | Federal state, parliamentary democracy, constitutional monarchy |
| Federal Elections | 15 | Ridings, voting, how a government is formed |
| The Justice System | 15 | Courts, police, the presumption of innocence |
| Canadian Symbols | 15 | Flag, anthem, emblems, honours |
| Canada's Economy | 15 | Main industries and trade |
| Canada's Regions | 15 | Provinces, territories, capitals and the five regions |
A method that works with short sessions
Ten questions take five minutes. That makes it easy to practise on a bus, on a lunch break or before bed, which is better than a single long evening: facts are kept far better when they are revisited over several days. Pick one chapter per session, read the explanation of every answer, and note on paper the facts you missed. The next day, start with a new set of the same chapter before moving on. A chapter where you miss the same fact twice is a chapter to reread in the guide itself, which is free on the IRCC site in text, PDF, eBook and audio.
Mixed sets for the last days
Choose "All chapters" in the menu to draw ten questions from the whole bank. This is closer to the real test, where a question on the Charter can follow one on the Prairies, and it shows whether your knowledge holds without the context of a chapter. Alternate mixed sets with full practice exams in the last week.
What practice cannot replace
Our questions are written from the guide's facts, not taken from the real test, which IRCC does not publish. Reading the guide itself remains the basis. And the test is only one requirement: before IRCC invites you to it, your application must show 1,095 days of physical presence in 5 years, which the physical presence calculator works out, and proof of language at level CLB/NCLC 4 for applicants aged 18 to 54.
Practising in French
If you plan to take the test in French, practise in French from the start: the vocabulary of government and history is not always the one you expect, from « circonscription » for a riding to « gouverneur général ». The French version of the site has its own 150 questions written directly in French.