Based on the official Discover Canada study guide (IRCC)
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About the test
The Canadian citizenship test is required of most applicants for Canadian citizenship aged 18 to 54. It's administered by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), either in person at an IRCC office or online through a proctored video session.
The test has 20 questions, either multiple choice or true or false, and you have 45 minutes to complete it. You need at least 15 of the 20 questions right (75%) to pass, and you get up to three attempts. Every question is based on the official study guide, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship.
ExamHub's free practice quiz has 114 original questions across all 8 major topic areas covered by the study guide.
What's covered
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Five questions pulled from the full bank, with the answer shown — use the quiz above for the real timed experience.
Why: Canada was formed as a Confederation on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act united the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
Why: Canada's system of government rests on three pillars: it is a federal state, a parliamentary democracy, and a constitutional monarchy.
Why: The Victoria Cross is the highest honour available to Canadians, awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy.
Why: New Brunswick is Canada's only officially bilingual province, with about one-third of its population living and working in French.
Why: The Magna Carta (Great Charter of Freedoms), signed in England in 1215, is the root of Canada's long tradition of ordered liberty, including freedom of conscience, thought, expression, assembly, and association.
FAQ
20 questions, either multiple choice or true or false.
15 out of 20 (75%). You get up to three attempts to pass.
45 minutes.
No. It's closed-book and proctored, either in person at an IRCC office or online.
Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, the official free study guide published by IRCC at canada.ca.
No. These are original questions written by ExamHub based on the official study guide. They cover the same topics, but aren't copies of real test questions.