Are the questions you find online real?

Yes and no — and the difference matters more than it sounds.

Nobody outside UHR has the test questions

The questions for the citizenship test are not public. They are drafted by UHR together with universities, and publishing them would defeat the purpose of the test. So no app, no site, and no course has the real questions, no matter what they imply.

What UHR has published is a small number of official sample questions, showing how a question is phrased and how the answer options look. They’re on uhr.se and worth a look — not because they’ll come up on the test, but because they show the format.

Everything else you find is third-party material. UHR itself has warned that such material may contain inaccurate or misleading information, and both Nyheter24 and Göteborgs-Posten have reported that made-up questions are circulating ahead of the test.

But “not real” doesn’t mean “worthless”

This is where many people go wrong. A practice question doesn’t need to be lifted from the real test to be useful. It just needs to test the right knowledge — and that knowledge is public.

The test is based on a single, freely available material: Sverige i fokus, published by UHR and Skolverket, 13 chapters. Everything that can come up on the test is in there. A practice question whose answer can be looked up in that material is testing the right thing, regardless of who wrote it.

That’s the sharp line:

• A question whose answer is in Sverige i fokus — useful, regardless of source, because you can verify it yourself.
• A question whose answer isn’t there — worthless at best, actively misleading at worst, because it’s testing something the real test doesn’t.

Three checks you can do yourself

1. Is there a page reference? The quickest test. If the practice material tells you where the answer is found — chapter and preferably page — you can look it up in half a minute. If it doesn’t, ask yourself why.

2. Can you find the answer in the PDF? Sverige i fokus is a searchable PDF of just over 40 pages. Take a handful of random questions from whatever material you’re using and search for the answer. If you can’t find it, the material isn’t built on the official source.

3. Does it state a pass mark? That’s a red flag. UHR has not published a pass mark — it will be decided after the first test round. An exact percentage is therefore something someone made up, and anyone who makes up a number is likely to make up other things too.

How our bank is built

We don’t have the real test questions, and we don’t claim to. Every question in the app is written by us, in our own words, based on Sverige i fokus, and every question links to the chapter and page in the material. That means you can check any answer against the original without having to trust us.

The questions have also gone through a blind review, where the reviewer was given the question and answer options but not the correct answer, and had to solve it from the chapter text alone. The method and its limitations — including that no lawyer, subject expert, or native speaker has certified the bank — are documented openly.

That’s not the same as having the real test questions. It’s better than claiming to.