Canadian citizenship test: timed practice exam
20 questions, 45 minutes, 15 right to pass. Independent site: you apply only on the IRCC website.
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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 usually taken online, in English or French: 20 multiple-choice or true-or-false questions, 45 minutes, and 15 correct answers to pass. It applies to applicants aged 18 to 54 on the day they sign their application. Every question comes from what the official study guide, Discover Canada, covers: rights and responsibilities, history, geography, the economy, government, the law and national symbols. IRCC sends the invitation after you apply; it opens a 30-day period in which you get 3 attempts, and three failures lead to a 30- to 90-minute hearing with an official. The mock exam above draws 20 questions from our 150 English practice questions across the guide's ten chapters, starts a 45-minute clock at your first answer and marks you with the same rule. Choose whether to see each correction as you go or only at the end, as on test day.
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From permanent residence to the oath, in five stops
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Stop 1
1,095 days physically present in 5 years, at least 730 of them as a permanent resident.
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Stop 2
Online form, documents, language proof if aged 18 to 54, $653 per adult.
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Stop 3
The online test stays open for 30 days, with 3 attempts.
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Stop 4
15 right out of 20; otherwise a hearing with an official.
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Stop 5
The citizenship ceremony is the last step: you become a citizen when you take the oath.
Revise one chapter at a time
Discover Canada has ten chapters and the test can draw on any of them. Each set below takes ten questions from a single chapter and corrects you straight away, which is the quickest way to find the chapter that costs you points before you sit another full exam. Government and elections usually cost more marks than history, because they ask you to tell close roles apart: prime minister and governor general, MP and senator, federal and provincial.
- Rights and responsibilities15 questions
- Who We Are15 questions
- Canada’s History15 questions
- Modern Canada15 questions
- How Canadians govern15 questions
- Federal elections15 questions
- Justice system15 questions
- Canadian symbols15 questions
- Canada’s economy15 questions
- Canada’s regions15 questions
Before the test, the 1,095 days
You do not sign up for the test; you are invited once your application is in. So the date that matters is the day your application becomes acceptable: the day you have 1,095 days of physical presence in the 5 years before it. A day as a permanent resident counts as one day; a day spent in Canada before that, on a work or study permit, as a visitor or as a protected person, counts as half a day, up to 365 days of credit. A trip removes only the days spent entirely outside Canada. The quick count below gives the gap; the 1,095-day calculator finds the exact date with your trips.
How many days am I short?
Days short
45
| Days credited | 1,050 |
| Credit before PR (half, max 365) | 150 |
| At least 730 days as a PR | met |
The test in figures
| Rule | Value |
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| Questions | 20 |
| Correct answers to pass | 15 (75%) |
| Time | 45 minutes |
| Attempts | 3 within 30 days |
| Who sits it | aged 18 to 54 |
| Language | English or French |
| Test fee | none on top of the application fee |
The test asks no language questions: English or French is proven separately, with the application, by an approved test or a diploma. Nor does it carry its own fee: the $653 paid per adult when you apply covers the $530 processing fee and the $123 right of citizenship fee, and a child costs $100.
Questions about the application
- Canadian citizenshipGrant, minor, proof, resumption or renunciation: the five routes, their fee and the key condition.
- Timeline, step by stepSignature, acknowledgement, test, interview, ceremony: each step in order, with the dates rules fix.
- Eligibility to applyDays of presence, taxes, language, test and prohibitions: every condition checked before you sign.
- The applicationOnline or on paper, the adult form, the documents, the photos and the date you sign: the file, piece by piece.
- Days calculatorYour landing date and every trip, past or planned: the first day the 1,095 days are reached, counted day by day.
- FeesAdult and minor fees, the right of citizenship part and the other IRCC citizenship fees, totalled for a household.
- Language proofCLB 4 in speaking and listening at ages 18 to 54: diplomas, approved tests and training that count as proof.
- Age exemptionsFrom 55, and under 18, no test and no language proof; waivers on request for others. What still applies.
- Children and minorsTwo routes for children under 18, a $100 fee, no test, the oath from 14: who applies and which form.
- Days as a permanent residentAt least 730 days as a PR, up to 365 days of credit for earlier stays: the floor and the ceiling explained.
- Spouses and partnersMarriage to a Canadian gives no shortcut: each spouse counts their own days. Who can apply first, and filing together.
- Citizenship by descentBorn abroad to a Canadian parent: what Bill C-3 changed on December 15, 2025, and how to confirm your status.
- Tax filingThree tax years out of five, when the law required a return: how the condition works and how it is checked.
- Ceremony and oathInvitation, documents to bring, virtual or in person, the oath from age 14 and what happens if you miss it.
- Renounce citizenshipAnother nationality, life outside Canada, age 18: the conditions, the $100 fee, the free route for some.
- Citizenship certificateProof of citizenship for $75, who needs one, online or paper, urgent cases, and the record search.
- Resume citizenshipFormer citizens back as permanent residents: 365 days in 2 years, one tax year, a paper form and a $530 fee.
Who writes the questions
Discover Canada is protected by Crown copyright, whose terms exclude commercial reuse of its text, so Radif Partners uses only its facts, in its own words, and leaves out what changes often, such as who holds an office today. The French bank is not a translation of the English one. The method page explains how a test is drawn and marked, and what this site does not do.
Sources
Rules and amounts on this page were checked against these IRCC and Government of Canada pages onOctober 25, 2026.
What applicants ask
How many questions can I get wrong and still pass?
5. The test has 20 questions and the pass mark is 15 correct answers, which is 75%. A question left blank counts as wrong, so skipping is never free. The score appears on screen when you submit the online test, and an IRCC officer then confirms it, which takes from a few days to a few weeks.
What happens if I fail three times?
You get 3 tries inside the 30-day period your invitation opens. Fail all three and IRCC books a hearing with a citizenship official lasting 30 to 90 minutes: 20 spoken questions on Canada with 15 to get right, a check of your residence, and up to 9 language questions with 6 to pass. Failing the hearing means the application is refused.
Can I take the online test on my phone?
No. IRCC asks for a desktop, laptop or tablet with a webcam, running Chrome or Safari; mobile phones are excluded, and so are Chrome on an iPad and the Surface Pro. You sit it alone, in the room where you took your ID photo and selfie at the start, with no notes, no second screen and your face in view for the whole 45 minutes.
Are these the real test questions?
No, and no website has them: IRCC does not publish its test bank. Radif Partners drafted our 150 English questions from facts found in Discover Canada, never from the guide's wording or its review questions. Each explanation points to the passage of the guide that backs the answer, so you learn the material rather than a list of answers.
When will I be invited to the test?
Only after you apply and IRCC has found your application complete. You do not pick a date or book anything yourself: the invitation arrives by email or in your account and opens the window in which the online test can be taken. That is why it pays to start revising on the day you send the application, not on the day the invitation lands.
Who does not have to take the test?
Anyone under 18 or aged 55 or over on the day they sign the application, and anyone IRCC grants a waiver. The same ages decide who must prove English or French at CLB/NCLC 4: a 56-year-old applicant sits no test and sends no language proof, but still needs the 1,095 days, the tax filing and a clean record.
Written by Radif Partners
Independent publisher of Canadian citizenship test practice and of the day-by-day count behind an application
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