Australia CitizenshipRead the resource book once
Read Our Common Bond end to end before you start drilling questions. It is short, it is free, and the test is written from it.
The test
What is in the Australian citizenship test
Twenty questions, forty-five minutes, and two pass criteria that are judged separately. This page sets out the rules, the four sections and where the official material lives.
The Australian citizenship test is a multiple-choice test sat with the Department of Home Affairs as part of a citizenship by conferral application. It is taken in English, and the questions are drawn from the resource book the Department publishes.
Most guides quote a single number: fifteen of twenty. That number is correct and it is not the whole rule. There is a second criterion, applied separately, and it is the one that catches people out.
The rules
Two criteria, judged separately
You must reach the overall mark and answer every Australian values question correctly. Meeting one and missing the other is not a pass.
Questions in the test
20
Time allowed
45 min
Correct answers needed
15 / 20
Australian values questions
5 / 5
Question format
Multiple choice
Language of the test
English
Source: Department of Home Affairs
15 / 20
Correct answers needed overall.
5 / 5
Australian values questions. Every one of them.
The material
Four sections
The test draws on four parts of the official resource book. The counts below are the number of practice questions this app holds for each part, which is a fair guide to how much material each one carries.
Australia and its people
354 practice questions in the app
354
Australia’s democratic beliefs, rights and liberties
213 practice questions in the app
213
Government and the law in Australia
455 practice questions in the app
455
Australian values
181 practice questions in the app
181
Preparing
What actually helps
Drill the values section hardest
The values questions are the ones that fail people, because a single wrong answer there ends the attempt regardless of your total. Practise them until they are automatic.
Sit timed mock exams
Twenty questions in forty-five minutes is not tight, but sitting the full format tells you something practising one section at a time cannot: whether you can hold the whole book in your head at once.
Practising
How this app is set up for it
Australia Citizenship 2026 holds 1,203 practice questions across those four sections, with a written explanation on every one. The mock exam runs the real format — 20 questions, 45 minutes — and applies both pass criteria separately, so a result that would have failed on the values rule is reported as a fail rather than as 18 out of 20.
Every question is shown in English first, with your own language directly beneath it, in eleven languages. That matters because the test is sat in English: you need to recognise the exact English wording, and you need to be sure you have understood it. The app is free, ad-supported and asks for no account.
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Questions
Common questions about the test
Twenty. You have forty-five minutes, and you need fifteen correct overall plus all five Australian values questions correct.
Seventy-five per cent — fifteen of twenty — and, separately, every one of the five Australian values questions. Both criteria must be met.
The attempt is not a pass, whatever your total score. This is the rule most people are surprised by, which is why it is worth drilling that section hardest.
No. The test is sat in English. Studying with the English wording beside your own language is the practical response to that, which is what this app is built around.
The Department of Home Affairs publishes a resource book, Our Common Bond, and the test is written from it. The actual test questions are not published.
No. The test is the multiple-choice component. It is sat as part of an appointment that also includes an interview and identity checks.
Yes. The Department sets out the arrangements for a further attempt. Check the official page for the current rules, since they can change.