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Five practice tests covering every question in the official 2008 civics bank whose answer does not change — 90 of the 100 — and around them four more materials: a recall deck, a drill for the questions that need more than one answer, the twenty questions for applicants 65 and older, and a checklist of the ten answers you look up yourself.
Take these if you filed Form N-400 before October 20, 2025. In the real test the officer asks up to 10 questions and you need 6 correct.
There are two live versions of the civics test, and the date on your application decides which one you sit. Filed before October 20, 2025 and this is your bank: 100 questions, 10 asked, 6 to pass. Filed on or after that date and you take the 2025 test instead — a different bank of 128, with 20 asked and 12 to pass.
The two lists overlap in subject matter but they are not the same. They word questions differently, they accept different answers, and the 2008 bank asks about things the 2025 one dropped entirely. If your interview has not happened yet and you filed a while ago, this is almost certainly the right place.
A whole geography section, for one: the two longest rivers, the ocean on each coast, a U.S. territory, a state bordering Canada, a state bordering Mexico. Also the two major political parties, the month we vote for president, the tax filing deadline, who becomes president if both the president and vice president cannot serve, and what happened at the Constitutional Convention.
If you have been studying from material written for the newer test, those are exactly the questions you will not have seen.
The real test is spoken: the officer asks and you answer in your own words. Nothing here pretends otherwise — the recall deck in this category and the spoken practice in this track, including a mock oral test under the 2008 rules, are what rehearse that.
What multiple choice does well is the thing that decides most of these questions: telling apart two facts that sound alike. Wilson against Roosevelt. The Pacific against the Atlantic. 100 senators against 435 representatives against 535 together. The Speaker of the House, who is second in line, against the Vice President, who is first. Nearly every wrong option here is a real fact from somewhere else in the bank, and the explanation says where it belongs.
Watch the six questions that ask for more than one answer: two rights in the Declaration of Independence, two Cabinet-level positions, two rights of everyone living in the United States, two ways to participate in democracy, three of the original states and two national holidays. In the practice tests you pick one; in the interview you must name as many as the question asks for, and the drill in this category trains exactly that: twelve select-all questions, two for each of the six, with every accepted answer on the cards.
The recall deck holds all 90 fixed-answer questions as flashcards: the question as the 2008 list words it on the front, every accepted answer on the back, and for the six multi-answer questions how many to say. Read the question, answer aloud, then turn the card.
If you were 65 or older when you filed, with 20 years as a permanent resident, you study only the twenty questions marked with an asterisk on the 2008 list: the officer asks ten, and six correct is a pass. Their own material covers all twenty as a quiz and as cards, including the answers that depend on your state and the President's name as uscis.gov listed it in September 2026, to check again before your interview.
Ten questions in the 2008 bank ask who currently holds an office, or depend on which state you live in — and one of them, the number of Supreme Court justices, the bank itself answers with a link to uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates (which currently says nine) rather than a number. USCIS accepts only the answer that is true on the day of your interview, so a fixed key would be teaching you something stale. Those are handled separately in this category, in a checklist deck: each card gives the question in the 2008 wording and where to find the answer, with the answer the test-updates page listed in September 2026 for the six national questions, the special answers for Washington, D.C. and the territories, and a reminder to check again close to your interview date.
The questions and answers come from the official USCIS bank, a work of the United States government. The practice format, the wrong options and the explanations are Zestly's own.
The naturalization test is administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Zestly is an independent study tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS or any U.S. government agency. The official civics questions are works of the U.S. government in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105); everything else here is our own. This is study help, not legal or immigration advice.
