Mock oral civics test — 2025 rules, set 2

A second set of twenty civics questions for the 2025 version of the test, asked out loud, one at a time, with twelve correct needed to pass. None of these twenty appears in the first mock oral test.

How the examiner behaves

It asks one question and waits. It does not say whether you were right, does not praise, does not hint and does not give a second attempt: every answer is final, even an incomplete one, and the next question follows, as at the real interview. Unlike the officer, it does not stop early: all twenty questions are asked, and the report reminds you that a real officer stops as soon as you reach twelve correct or can no longer pass. If you do not catch a question, ask for it again and it is repeated word for word.

What this set covers

The questions are spread across the whole list of 128: why the Declaration of Independence matters and which documents influenced the Constitution; the ideas the two founding documents share; who writes laws, who elects House members, why each state has two senators and how long a senator serves; the judicial branch; who alone can vote in federal elections and serve on a jury; civic participation and federal taxes; reasons for independence and events of the Revolution; Benjamin Franklin; Civil War events and when all men got the vote; wars of the 1900s and the Cold War rival; the Statue of Liberty and Veterans Day. Several of them ask for two items, and the examiner counts an answer with only one as wrong, as the officer would.

The report at the end

It comes in three parts:

1. The score: correct answers out of twenty, and whether that is a pass under the real rule of twelve out of twenty.
2. Every question you got wrong, with your own reply and the answers USCIS accepts. Many questions accept several, and seeing the whole set often shows that you knew the answer and simply reached for a phrasing that is not on the list.
3. A separate note on your English: whether an officer could have followed you, and which words or constructions caused trouble. There is no separate speaking test at the interview; the officer forms a view of your English from exactly this kind of exchange. The examiner receives your answers as text, so the note covers your wording, not your pronunciation or fluency.

What it leaves out

Questions whose answers change with elections or depend on where you live (your senators, your representative, your governor, your state capital, and the current President, Vice President, Speaker and Chief Justice) are not asked, because no fixed script can judge them fairly. Check those on uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates, senate.gov, house.gov and usa.gov shortly before your interview.

The questions and accepted answers come from the USCIS list of 128 civics questions (2025 version), a work of the United States government. The interview simulation and the assessment are Zestly's own. The report is practice feedback, not a prediction of your result.

• Produce civics answers out loud, from recall, for twenty questions you have not met in the other mock tests
• Sit a full twenty-question 2025 test against the real pass mark of twelve, and know when a real officer would stop
• See every missed question with the full set of answers USCIS accepts
• Get a separate, plain note on whether the English of your answers was clear enough for an officer
• Get used to an examiner who gives no feedback until the end

Practice material written by Zestly, based on the USCIS list of 128 civics questions and answers (2025 version, M-1778, 09/25), with the accepted answers taken verbatim from it — for example "Who was the United States’ main rival during the Cold War?"; "When did all men get the right to vote?"; "Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.". The format — up to twenty questions, twelve correct to pass, the officer stopping at twelve correct or nine incorrect — is the rule USCIS published for applicants filing Form N-400 on or after October 20, 2025.