starting next month, green card holders seeking to become U.s. citizens will be taking a new and longer version of the naturalization test.
The 2025 Naturalization Civics Test will have more potential questions — from 100 to 128 — and test takers will be asked 20 randomly selected questions instead of 10. To pass, they’ll need to answer 12 of them correctly, instead of six, as in the old test.
Like the older one, it's still an oral test given by a U.s. Citizenship and Immigration services officer. But unlike the older test, once a person answers enough questions to either pass or fail, the officer can stop asking questions.
UsCIs spokesperson Matthew Tragesser said in a statement that the changes published in a Federal Register notice this week will help ensure that only immigrants “who meet all eligibility requirements, including the ability to read, write, and speak English and understand U.s. government and civics, are able to naturalize.”
There are other changes between the old test and the new one: The 2025 test does away with questions about geography and focuses more on American history and governance.
You can test your civics knowledge with the following NBC News quiz using questions from the new naturalization test. Unlike the real citizenship test, which may have more than one correct answer for some questions, our questions have only one right answer.
