How many questions are on the Finnish citizenship test, and what is the pass mark?
Vishwen Labs
Nobody outside Migri and the University of Helsinki knows yet. As of September 2026, Migri has said that the test is multiple choice, that it is taken in digital form on site in Finnish or Swedish, and that most of the answers must be correct for the test to be passed. The number of questions, the time limit, the exact pass mark and any fee are due in autumn 2026. Figures you see elsewhere, such as 20 to 40 questions or a 70% pass mark, are guesses; the app's own mock uses 30 questions, 45 minutes and 75%, and labels them preliminary.
What Migri has actually said
Two sentences carry the format so far. The test will comprise multiple-choice questions, and most of the answers must be correct for the test to be passed. The first rules out essay or oral formats for the standard test, although an oral test is available as a special arrangement. The second rules out a bare majority, since most in this wording means clearly more than half, and it rules in a threshold somewhere above 50% without saying where. Everything else, including whether there is a time limit at all, waits for the autumn.
What comparable tests do
The countries the Ministry of the Interior's 2025 study compared give a sense of the range. The UK's Life in the UK test is 24 questions in 45 minutes with 18 correct to pass, 75%. Canada's is 20 questions with 15 correct, also 75%, in 45 minutes online. Germany's Einbürgerungstest is 33 questions with 17 correct, just over half. France's new examen civique, from January 2026, is 40 questions in 45 minutes with 32 correct, 80%. A Finnish test that requires most answers correct will sit somewhere in that band, and 75% is the most common single figure, which is why the app uses it.
The app's preliminary format, and why it is labelled
The mock in Kansalaisuuskoe runs 30 questions in 45 minutes and passes at 75%, which is 23 correct. The format is stored as configuration with a flag that says the pass mark is not official, the practice screen shows a tilde before the question count, and the store listing says the app will update the format as soon as Migri publishes the real one. That is deliberate. A study app that quoted a firm number for an unpublished test would be inventing a fact, and the invention would be the first thing users remembered.
How to use a mock whose format may change
Treat the score as a percentage and the breakdown as the point. Whether the real test turns out to be 30 questions or 40, a candidate who scores 90% across the chapters on unseen questions passes it, and one who scores 60% does not. The topic breakdown tells you which chapters produced the misses, and that does not depend on the format at all. When Migri publishes the count and pass mark, the mock will change to match and your history stays comparable as percentages.
Multiple choice, and how to answer it
The format that is confirmed is multiple choice with one correct option, and the app's questions are written the same way, with four options. The habits that help are the usual ones: read every option, because distractors are built from true statements about a neighbouring fact; treat only, always and never as warnings; and answer everything, since no multiple-choice test in the comparison countries penalises a wrong answer more than a blank. The University of Helsinki has said it is writing the material in clear Finnish, so the questions should be readable at B1; the vocabulary of law and rights is what to practise.
Kansalaisuuskoe is an independent study aid and is not affiliated with the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) or any other Finnish authority. Migri will publish the official learning material for the citizenship test before the first test in March 2027, and the test's questions will be based on it; the app's lessons and questions are its own, written from the civic orientation and InfoFinland material that the official material will draw on.
Questions people also ask
Is there a time limit on the Finnish citizenship test?
Not announced. Migri has said the test is taken in digital form on site and has promised details on taking it in autumn 2026. Comparable tests allow 45 minutes; the app's mock uses 45 minutes as a preliminary setting.
Does the Finnish citizenship test cost money?
Not announced. Migri's pages do not mention a fee, and its autumn 2026 information on taking the test is where one would appear. The citizenship application itself carries its own fee regardless.
