The 65/20 study set
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If you're 65 or older and you've been a permanent resident for 20 years or more, USCIS gives you a shorter study list: the 20 questions USCIS marks with an asterisk in its published bank. The officer still runs the interview the usual way, asking from those 20 and stopping at the same pass and fail numbers for your test. Which 20 you study depends on your filing date, the same split as the full tests: the 2008 bank has its own marked 20, and the 2025 bank has its own, and they aren't the same questions.
These practice sets draw only from the marked 20 for your test. If the 65/20 rule doesn't apply to you, use the full tests on the citizenship hub instead, because your questions can come from the whole bank.
Start a 65/20 practice set
Filed Form N-400 before October 20, 2025: the 2008 set, up to 10 asked, stopping at 6 right or 5 wrong. Filed on or after that date: the 2025 set, up to 20 asked, stopping at 12 right or 9 wrong. There's no signup and nothing to pay.
2008 test, 65/20 set 2025 test, 65/20 set Oral mode, 2008 set
Twenty questions. Learn them cold.
Facts strip
- Who studies the short list
- Age 65 or older, a resident for 20 years or more
- Questions to study
- 20, marked by USCIS
- To pass, 2008 test
- 6 of 10 right
- To pass, 2025 test
- 12 of 20 right
- Format
- Spoken, at interview
Facts checked against USCIS published civics test materials, 2026-11-03. Official information: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, uscis.gov.
Corrections note
No corrections yet. Last checked 2026-11-03, against the USCIS 2008 and 2025 civics banks.