2025 civics recall cards: branches, Congress and the president

This deck covers questions 16 to 39 of the 2025 civics list, the section on System of Government: branches, Congress and the president: 24 cards in total. It covers the three branches, the two parts of Congress, numbers and terms of senators and representatives, who they represent and who elects them, and the president's term and two-term limit.

How the cards work. The front of each card is the question exactly as it appears in the USCIS list. The back gives every answer USCIS lists for it. Where the list accepts any one of several answers, the back says so; where the officer asks for two, three or five answers, the back says how many. Words in parentheses are optional: "(U.S.) Constitution" means that "Constitution" alone is accepted.

Why recall and not multiple choice. The six practice tests in this category are multiple choice, which is good for telling similar facts apart. The real civics test is spoken, and the officer gives you no options. These cards train the harder skill: producing an answer from memory. Read the question, say your answer aloud, then turn the card and compare. You do not need to use the exact words on the back, but your answer must mean the same thing.

About this section. This is the part of the list with the most numbers: 100 senators, 435 voting representatives, terms of six, two and four years. Five of its questions have no fixed answer (your senators, your representative, the Speaker, the President and the Vice President); their cards tell you where to check and give the names the USCIS test-updates page listed in September 2026, to be checked again before your interview.

How to use the deck. Go through it once to see which cards you already know, then repeat the ones you missed until you can answer them without hesitation. For questions with a long list of accepted answers, choose one or two you find easy to say and always use those. Together, the eight decks in this series cover all 128 questions of the 2025 list, section by section.

On test day nothing is multiple choice and nothing is on a card: the officer reads the question aloud and you answer in your own words. Say each answer out loud while you study, because that is what you will do in the interview. This is independent practice; it is not produced or endorsed by USCIS, and no practice material can promise a result.

• Recall the accepted answers for questions 16 to 39 of the 2025 list
• Keep the numbers of senators and representatives and their terms apart
• Explain who senators and representatives represent and who elects them
• Know where to check the five answers in this section that change or depend on where you live
• Say each answer aloud from memory, as on the spoken test

Practice material written by Zestly, based on the USCIS 2025 civics question list "128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version)", M-1778 (09/25); current office holders as listed on uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates, checked September 2026.