Mock test 2

The second full-length mock: 24 questions, 18 correct to pass, and not one question repeated from mock test 1.

The selection is built the same way — three questions from each of the eight chapter materials — but it reaches different corners of the syllabus. The principles and the responsibilities, and the capitals of the four countries. The Domesday Book, the Black Death and the Tudor rose. The Industrial Revolution, Wilberforce and Nelson at Trafalgar. The Battle of Britain, D-Day and the founding of the NHS in 1948. Burns Night, Eid al-Fitr and the Church of Scotland. The Proms, the Booker Prize and Shakespeare. Election timing, the franchise and how a Prime Minister is chosen. The judiciary, income tax and the National Insurance number.

Two scores a few days apart tell you more than one score does, and a second test on entirely different questions is the only honest way to find out whether a pass was knowledge or luck. If you failed the first, though, go back to the chapters the wrong answers came from before sitting this one — another mock immediately afterwards measures the same gap twice instead of closing it.

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

• Sit a second full-length test with no repeated questions from mock 1
• Check whether a first-attempt score holds up on a different selection
• Cover the parts of each chapter the first mock did not reach
• See which chapters still need work before the real test

The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded who held which land and what it was worth, so that the new Norman king knew exactly what he had conquered. It is a tax and property survey rather than a religious or legal text.