Mock test 1

A full-length mock in the format of the real Life in the UK Test: 24 questions, 18 correct to pass, drawn from every part of the syllabus with no warning about which chapter each one comes from.

That mixing is the point. It is quite possible to answer the history questions well when you know they are history questions, and to lose the same facts when a date from 1066 arrives between one question about the Speaker of the House of Commons and another about St David's Day. A chapter test tells you which chapter is weak; a mock tells you whether you would pass today.

This one takes three questions from each of the eight chapter materials in the track — the four countries and the Crown dependencies, Stonehenge and Boudicca and the Vikings, Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights and Walpole, 1914 and 1918 and 1922, the patron saints and Remembrance Day, golf and the Ashes and the Six Nations, Parliament and the Commons, and then criminal law, the Scottish courts and the jury. Every question carries the same full explanation as in the chapter it came from.

No question is repeated in mock tests 2 or 3, so the three can be taken one after another. But the questions are the same ones as in the chapter materials, so take a mock instead of the chapters it draws on rather than straight afterwards, if you want the score to mean anything.

The questions and explanations are Zestly's own, written from publicly known facts; nothing is reproduced from the official handbook.

• Sit a full-length test in the real format: 24 questions, 18 to pass
• Find out whether mixing every chapter together costs you marks
• Identify which chapters to go back to, from the questions you actually got wrong
• Practise working at the pace the real 45-minute test allows

The Isle of Man is a Crown dependency: linked to the Crown, but with its own parliament and laws, and outside the United Kingdom. The Channel Islands have the same status. They are neither part of the UK nor foreign countries, which is why they are worth learning as their own category.