In English

Free practice for the Norwegian citizenship test

Start with the official sample test. Then come back for the part it does not give you: explanations, and enough repetition to remember.

Start with the official one

Before anything else, take HK-dir's own sample test. It is free, it is on the site that runs the real thing, and it is the only place where the interface you will meet on test day is the interface you are practising in.

HK-dir describes it plainly:

Our translation: you can practise on tasks that resemble the ones you get on the test.

Note the word «ligner» — resemble. Not the same tasks. Nobody publishes the real ones, and anyone claiming to sell you them is lying to you.

The official syllabus is free too. It lives at samfunnskunnskap.no and is split into three subject areas: education, competence and working life; family, health and everyday life; Norway past and present. Both tests are built on it.

What the official sample test does not give you

It gives you one run-through and a score. It does not tell you why an answer was wrong, and it does not come back tomorrow to ask you the same thing again when you have forgotten it.

That is the gap, and it is the only reason a service like ours has a right to exist.

Here is what actually makes the difference, in our experience:

• An explanation attached to every wrong answer, read at the moment you were wrong — not a percentage at the end that you have to interpret yourself.
• Repetition spaced over days. Facts about municipalities and emergency numbers do not stick from one sitting. They stick from being asked again on Thursday.
• The vocabulary, separately. For most people the hard part is not the fact, it is the Norwegian word wrapped around it.

What is free here

• 20 questions a day, with no account and no card.
• One full mock exam, also without signing up — timed and scored the way the real test is.

That is genuinely free, not a trial that asks for a card at the end. If it turns out we are not what you need, you have lost nothing.

Full access — the whole book, the audiobook and unlimited practice — costs 199 kroner, paid once. Not a subscription. For context, HK-dir states that the citizenship test itself can cost between 300 and 1800 kroner depending on your municipality.

Our questions are ours

We never reproduce tasks from the real tests. Every question you practise on here was written by us to cover the same syllabus, and the build that publishes these pages fails outright if one of our questions comes too close to a third-party practice task.

We are an independent practice service. We are not HK-dir, IMDi or UDI, and nothing here is an official answer key.

The practice is in Norwegian

This matters enough to say twice on an English page.

Statsborgerprøven exists only in Norwegian — HK-dir: «Du kan velge om du vil ta prøven på nynorsk eller på bokmål.» And samfunnskunnskapsprøven, if you want it to count towards citizenship, must also be taken in Norwegian.

So our questions, explanations, book and audiobook are all in Norwegian. Practising in English would teach you the content and leave you stranded on the words.

The language level is lower than people fear. HK-dir: «Prøven er på språknivå A2.» And you are not alone with the text on the day either: «Du kan få spørsmålene lest opp ved hjelp av lydfiler når du tar prøven.» If you find reading slow, use the audio in practice too — it is closer to how you will sit the real thing.

If you are taking the social studies test in English rather than Norwegian, we are honestly not your best option. samfunnskunnskap.no is, and it is free.

What you are practising for

Twenty-four out of thirty-six is two thirds. That is the number to hold in your head: you have room to get twelve wrong. People who fail usually fail because they ran out of preparation, not because they were unlucky on the day.

And a detail that changes how you should answer: only 32 of the 36 tasks on the citizenship test are scored, because new ones are being trialled — and you are not told which. Answer everything with the same care. There is no penalty for a wrong answer, so never leave one blank.

A realistic plan

Two weeks is enough for most people if the reading is targeted. Four weeks is better, because it lets you forget things and learn them again, which is what actually makes them stay.

Either way, register for the test first. Dates depend on your municipality and there is no national calendar, so the date is usually what sets your deadline — not how fast you read.

What we could not confirm

• Whether the official sample test is updated. No revision date published, checked 22 September 2026.
• How many tasks the official sample test contains. Not stated on the page.
• Whether practice results are recorded anywhere official. They are not, as far as we can tell. Only the real test produces a certificate.