US Citizenship Test Practice (Civics & English, N-400)

About the US Citizenship Test Practice (Civics & English, N-400)

Practice for the civics and English parts of the US naturalization interview with USCIS’s own lists: all 128 questions of the 2025 civics test and all 100 questions of the 2008 test, with every answer USCIS accepts. Study them as flash cards you answer out loud, drill them by topic as multiple choice with an explanation after each answer, or sit a mock interview that stops the way an officer stops: as soon as you have enough right answers to pass, or too many wrong ones.

The test you take depends on the day you filed Form N-400, so the page can pick it from that date. The 65/20 option narrows practice to the 20 starred questions, answers that change with elections link to USCIS’s test updates page and official look-ups instead of naming anyone, and the reading and writing practice uses only words from USCIS’s vocabulary lists. Your progress stays in this browser.

Common uses

• Learning the 128 questions of the 2025 test in short daily sessions.
• Checking whether your filing date means the 2008 or the 2025 test.
• Practicing out loud with a family member reading the questions, or with the browser reading them.
• Applicants with the 65/20 special consideration studying only the 20 starred questions.
• Practicing the reading and writing sentences with the official vocabulary.

Which test you take

USCIS gives the 2008 civics test to applicants who filed Form N-400 before October 20, 2025, and the 2025 civics test to those who filed on or after October 20, 2025. Your receipt notice shows the date your application was filed.

• 2025 test: the officer asks up to 20 of the 128 questions, out loud. You pass with 12 right; you fail with 9 wrong. The officer stops as soon as either happens.
• 2008 test: up to 10 of the 100 questions. You pass with 6 right; you fail with 5 wrong, and the officer stops at either point.
• 65/20 special consideration: if you were 65 or older and had lived in the United States as a lawful permanent resident for 20 years or more when you filed, you may study just the 20 questions marked with an asterisk; the officer asks 10 of them and 6 right answers pass, and you may take the civics test in the language of your choice.

Source: USCIS: study for the test and the 128 civics questions and answers.

Answers that change

Some answers depend on elections, appointments or where you live: the President, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, the Chief Justice, your state’s senators, your representative and your governor (and, on the 2008 test, the President’s party and the number of justices). You must answer with the official serving at the time of your interview, so this page never names anyone: those questions come as cards with USCIS’s own instruction and links to USCIS’s test updates, Members of Congress, find your representative and state governments. They are not asked as multiple choice.

How the multiple-choice drill is made

The real civics test is oral: there are no options to choose from. The drill adds options to help you learn: the right option is one of the answers USCIS lists (for “Name three…” questions, three of them together), and the wrong options are written to be clearly wrong, often answers to a neighboring question (a power of Congress offered for a power of the President, Gettysburg for an event of the Revolution). The explanations are short notes in plain words. For the interview itself, practice with Say it, then check.

The English test

Besides civics, the officer tests your English: speaking (your answers during the interview), reading (read one of up to three sentences out loud) and writing (write one of up to three sentences the officer reads). The practice here uses sentences written only with words from USCIS’s reading and writing vocabulary lists. The writing check follows the USCIS Policy Manual: capital letters, punctuation and small spelling slips do not fail you if the meaning comes through, but every content word must be there, no other word may be added and abbreviations are not accepted.

Your progress stays on this device

Each version keeps its own progress, mistakes and mock interview scores in this browser only; clearing your browser data, or using another browser, starts you again. Reset my progress deletes them on purpose. Nothing you answer or type is sent anywhere.

Limitations

• Practice only: a practice score does not predict your interview, and the USCIS officer decides. This is not legal advice about your application.
• The officer may ask the questions in other words, and accepts the answers on USCIS’s lists; answers outside the lists are at the officer’s discretion.
• Answers that change (officials serving now, your state’s officials) are not named here: check them on the official pages shortly before your interview.
• The reading and writing sentences are practice sentences in the style of the test, made from the official vocabulary; they are not USCIS’s own test sentences.
• Reading aloud uses your browser’s voices; some browsers have none, and an online voice sends the question or practice sentence it reads to its provider (the page says so first).

Privacy

On this device: nothing is sent

Everything runs in this browser. The question lists are part of the page; your answers, progress, mock interview scores and anything you type in the writing practice stay in this browser’s storage and are never uploaded. If your browser reads a question or a sentence aloud with an online voice, it sends that question or practice sentence (never your own text or answers) to that voice’s provider, and the page says so first.