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Discover Canada: the study guide, chapter by chapter
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Practice questions written by Radif Partners from the facts of the official guide. Not the official test.
Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship is the official study guide for the Canadian citizenship test, published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. IRCC says that all test questions are based on it. It is free and comes in several formats: you can read it online, download it as a PDF or an eBook, listen to it as audio or order a paper copy, and it exists in French as Découvrir le Canada. Its ten chapters run from the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and who Canadians are, through history and modern Canada, to government, elections, justice, symbols, the economy and the regions. The guide is Crown copyright and its terms forbid commercial reproduction, so this page describes it in our own words and quotes none of it. The quiz above draws ten of our questions from the chapter you choose, out of the 150 we wrote from the guide's facts, to check what you retained after reading it.
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The ten chapters in brief
| Chapter | In a sentence |
|---|---|
| Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship | The Charter, the equality of women and men, and the duties that come with citizenship. |
| Who We Are | Indigenous peoples, the English and French heritage and the diversity of today’s population. |
| Canada's History | The longest chapter: first peoples, exploration, New France, British rule, Confederation, expansion west, the World Wars. |
| Modern Canada | Canada after the Second World War: trade, social programmes, culture and sport. |
| How Canadians Govern Themselves | Federalism, parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy, with three branches and three levels of government. |
| Federal Elections | How MPs are elected in electoral districts and how a government is formed. |
| The Justice System | Courts, police and the principles of justice. |
| Canadian Symbols | The Crown, the flag, the anthem, emblems and honours. |
| Canada's Economy | The main sectors of the economy and the importance of trade. |
| Canada's Regions | The five regions, the provinces and territories and their capitals. |
How to read it
A first reading should be quick and complete: the aim is the overall picture, how the history explains the institutions and how the institutions explain the rights. On a second reading, slow down on the chapters that produce test questions out of every paragraph: government, elections and regions. Make your own list of the offices (Sovereign, Governor General, Lieutenant Governor, Prime Minister, premier, mayor) with one line for each, and a table of provinces and capitals. These two sheets cover a large share of the questions people get wrong.
Check each chapter with a quiz
After each chapter, switch the quiz above to it and answer ten questions. Reading gives a feeling of knowing; answering without help shows what is really there. Our 150 questions are split by chapter (between 15 and 15 each), and every answer names the section of the guide where the fact is, so you can go back to the right page. The question list shows them all with their answers, and the practice exam mixes the chapters as the real test does.
What the guide does not tell you
Discover Canada is about the country, not about the application. It does not tell you when you can apply, how the 1,095 days of physical presence are counted or what the application costs. For those, see the eligibility page, the physical presence calculator and the fee page.
The French edition
Découvrir le Canada is the French edition of the same guide, with the same chapters. If you will take the test in French, read it in French: terms such as « circonscription » or « sanction royale » are those the test will use. Our French practice test has 150 questions written in French.