How many correct answers do you need to pass the citizenship test?

The short answer: nobody knows, and anyone who claims to know hasn’t checked.

What UHR has actually said

UHR has confirmed the scope of the test — around 60 questions in 90 minutes — but not how many of them you need to get right. Asked about the pass mark, the answer is that it will be decided after the first test round.

That’s not an evasive answer, it’s how test design normally works. Until the questions have been used for real, nobody knows how hard they turn out to be in practice. Only once a large enough number of people have taken the test can you see how the score distribution looks and set a mark that measures what it’s meant to measure. The pilot test on 15 August 2026 is the first time the questions are used in a real test situation.

Why you see numbers anyway

Search for the pass mark and you’ll find sites and apps quoting an exact percentage — often somewhere between 70 and 80 percent. That figure doesn’t come from UHR. We haven’t been able to find any published source for it at all.

There are two likely explanations. One is that someone borrowed the mark from another country’s test — the UK’s Life in the UK Test, for example, uses 75 percent — and assumed Sweden does the same. The other is that a number is simply better marketing than “nobody knows”: an app that promises to get you ready for an exact mark sounds more useful than one that says the mark doesn’t exist yet.

This is part of a bigger pattern. Both Nyheter24 and Göteborgs-Posten have reported that made-up questions are circulating ahead of the test, and UHR itself has warned about third-party material that may be inaccurate or misleading. The same caution applies to claimed pass marks.

What to do instead

Not knowing the mark is less of a problem than it sounds, for a simple reason: the strategy is the same regardless of where it ends up. You can’t study smarter by knowing the mark is 70 rather than 75 percent. You can only know the material better.

In practice that means:

• Cover the whole material. The test is based on Sverige i fokus, 13 chapters. There’s no known weighting that makes any one chapter more important than another.
• Aim for margin, not the mark. If you’re consistently scoring around 90 percent on practice questions, it doesn’t matter where the mark ends up.
• Practice under time. 60 questions in 90 minutes is plenty of time — a minute and a half per question — but it’s worth knowing how that feels before test day.

What we do

We don’t state a pass mark in the app, and we won’t until UHR publishes one. That’s the same principle that runs through the rest of the product: every question links to a page in Sverige i fokus so you can look up the answer yourself, and where we don’t know something we say so.

Be skeptical of anyone who does the opposite. An exact figure with no published source behind it isn’t a sign of better information — it’s a sign that someone guessed.