US Citizenship Test

The civics test every applicant for US citizenship takes, in the 2025 version: the official list of 128 questions published by USCIS, from which the officer asks up to 20 at the naturalization interview. The real test is oral — you answer in your own words — so here each question has four choices, one of them an answer USCIS accepts. Every sitting draws 20 of the 128 at random, spread across the list's sections, and you pass at 12 of 20, as applicants do. The items on who holds office now are as of September 2026. If you would rather be scored on the whole list, with a breakdown by section, take the full 124-question version.

Applicants have studied the list and over 90% pass. Americans who have not: the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation put multiple-choice questions from the earlier 100-item list to a national sample of 1,000 adults in 2018 and 41,000 across all states in 2019, and only about four in ten reached the pass mark — 74% of those over 65, 19% of those under 45; Vermont was the one state where a majority passed. Your result shows whether you passed, where your score falls among everyone who has taken it here, and how likely you would be to pass if the 20 questions were drawn again — 20 of 20 is strong evidence, not proof, and a lucky 12 is no guarantee.