The test
Free Australian citizenship practice tests, as many as you want
No sign-up, no paywall after the first test, no email. Press "New set of questions" for a fresh 20-question test whenever you like.
Independent, non-government site: tests, applications and appointments are handled only on the Home Affairs website.
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| Pass mark: 15 of 20 (75%) |
Practice questions adapted by Radif Partners from Our Common Bond. Not the official test questions.
Questions adapted from Australian Citizenship: Our Common Bond, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0, by Radif Partners.
A free Australian citizenship practice test should do three things: draw a full set of 20 questions, include exactly 5 values questions as the real test does, and mark the result with both official rules, 75% overall and every values question right. The test above does all three and has no limit: each new run draws again from a bank of 229 questions adapted from Our Common Bond, 51 of them on Australian values, so the number of different tests runs into the billions. Nothing is stored, nothing is sold and you never create an account. Home Affairs itself offers its booklet, an audio version and a short practice test free of charge, and it warns that it does not endorse paid test packages. Use the official booklet to learn and these runs to check yourself: when you pass several fresh tests in a row with no values mistake, you are ready for the appointment.
How a test of 20 can split across the four parts
Values questions (Part 4)
5, fixed
| Other questions | 4 + 4 + 7 = 15 |
| Allowed mistakes | 5, none on values |
| Share of the test on values | 25% |
Home Affairs does not publish how the 15 other questions split between parts; this is your own guess to plan revision.
Questions, dates and fees by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · How questions and dates are built
What makes a practice test worth taking
Many free quizzes ask ten questions picked at random and report a percentage. That trains memory, but it does not reproduce the decision made at the end of the real test. The official marking has two gates. The first is the values gate: the 5 questions drawn from the fourth part of the booklet must all be right. The second is the overall mark of 75%, which on 20 questions is 15 correct answers. A practice tool that does not hold the values questions apart can tell you that you passed with 19 out of 20 when the real test would have failed you. The runs above always contain 5 values questions and report the two gates separately.
How a fresh test is drawn
When you press "New set of questions", the page takes 5 questions from the 51 values questions and 15 from the other 178, then shuffles them. The questions on the other three parts are not split evenly, because Home Affairs does not publish how many come from each part. Your result by part, shown when you finish, is the useful signal: if Part 3 on government and the law is where the mistakes gather, that is the chapter to read again.
The free official resources
Home Affairs gives away everything needed to pass. The testable section of Our Common Bond holds all the information the test draws on, and the department's preparation page points to a podcast version and to a revised practice test built into the booklet. The booklet is available in 40 community languages, although the test itself is in English. The department says it does not endorse or recommend test packages from other individuals or organisations. This site is one of those outsiders: it sells nothing, and it says plainly that its questions are adapted, not official.
A free routine in four weeks
| Week | What to do | Tool on this site |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read Parts 1 and 2 of the booklet once | Part 1 practice, Part 2 practice |
| 2 | Read Parts 3 and 4, then all four parts again quickly | Part 3 practice, values questions |
| 3 | Two full tests a day, at the end of each one read the explanations | this page |
| 4 | Timed tests under exam conditions | 45-minute mock test |
The study planner turns the time you can give each day into a number of weeks. Most of the effort goes into Part 3, which covers the Constitution, parliament, elections and the courts, and into reading the values part closely enough that no values question can surprise you.
Free does not mean careless
Each question records the part and heading of the booklet where its fact sits, so you can check any answer you doubt. Questions about who holds an office today, or anything else that changes faster than the booklet, are left out, because the test draws on the booklet and not on the news. When Home Affairs changes a rule of the test or publishes a new edition of the booklet, the bank and this page are reviewed and the date at the foot of the page changes. Every figure you see here is read from the official page it links to.