263 questions from all five chapters of the handbook, with every answer explained. Mock tests you can sit against the clock, reviews of what you keep forgetting and an honest estimate of your chance of passing. It's free, and you don't need an account.
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The real test is only 24 questions, so a couple of unlucky ones can decide it. Your chance of reaching 18, if you get this share right:
Questions
24
in the real test
Time allowed
45 min
for all of them
Pass mark
18/24
that's 75%
Fee
£50
every attempt
Each is 24 questions from across the handbook, like the real test. No two share a question. Practise with the answers shown, or switch to timed mode.
Done all 10? Get a new random test every time
Shorter tests, topic by topic, for when you know which part of the handbook you keep getting wrong. Between them they cover every question we have.
The test only asks about what's in the official handbook. Our notes follow its five chapters, and each topic ends with every question we have on it, answers shown. Prefer paper? All the notes on one printable page.
The short opening chapter: what the UK says it stands for, and what you agree to when you settle here.
The shortest chapter in the book, and an easy one to skip. It's four countries and their capitals, and it's as much a part of the test as any other chapter.
By far the biggest chapter, with the most dates to learn. Stone Age Britain through to the end of the twentieth century.
Geography, religion, festivals, sport, the arts and what people do at the weekend. Wide, shallow and heavy on names and dates.
How the country is run, how the courts work, and what is expected of you as a resident.
The Home Office has never published the real question bank, so no practice site has the actual test questions, whatever it claims. What everyone has is the official handbook, Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents, which is the only thing the test is set from.
We write our questions from the facts in that book, in our own words, and check them against it. Each answer tells you which chapter it comes from, so you can look it up, and if you keep missing one chapter you know what to reread. Where the book has since gone out of date, the answer says so.
24 multiple-choice questions, and you get 45 minutes. You need 18 right to pass, which is 75%.
£50 each time you sit it. If you fail, you can book again as many times as you need, but you pay the £50 again each time.
Anyone applying for settlement or British citizenship, with some exceptions: you don't need it if you're under 18, 65 or over, have already passed it, or have a long-term physical or mental condition that stops you taking it.
No. You need a pass for both indefinite leave to remain and naturalisation, but you only ever pass it once. If you passed it for settlement, you don't sit it again for citizenship.
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Aim to get 85% or more right on questions you haven't seen before. With only 24 questions, a couple of unlucky ones can decide the result: at 75% right your chance of passing is about 60%, at 85% it's about 94%. Your progress page estimates your own chance as you practise.
No, and be wary of any site that says so. The Home Office has never published its question bank. Ours are written from the official handbook, which is what the test is set from.
In places, yes. The test is still set from the 2013 edition, so a few answers it expects are no longer true today, such as the monarch and the name of the Welsh parliament. We list all 9 and say which answer to give in the test.
The original of the ID you booked with. A copy or a photo of it won't be accepted, and the centre also takes your photo. With the wrong ID you can't sit the test and you don't get your money back.
Yes, all of it, and you don't need an account. Your progress is saved in your own browser, not on our servers.