Fake Swedish Citizenship Test Questions Are Circulating — How to Tell What's Official

Ahead of the Swedish citizenship test on 15 August, invented test questions are circulating online, according to Swedish radio station P4 Stockholm. The short answer on what is genuine: the only thing the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) has published itself is five examples of how the test questions may be designed, on uhr.se. The agency has not released any actual test questions. Everything else you find — practice questions, lists in chat groups, "leaked" questions — is someone else's interpretation of what the test might ask.

What happened

According to P4 Stockholm, whose reporting the news agency TT carried onward, questions are circulating that are presented as belonging to the citizenship test but do not. UHR recommends instead that anyone due to sit the test turns to the agency's own website.

"From the agency's point of view, we think it is unfortunate if people go to other websites and study there believing this is official information," says Dani Backteg, press officer at UHR, speaking to P4 Stockholm (translated from Swedish).

The reporting also notes that some providers market more than 1,000 study questions and charge for them — something UHR says can create false hopes of a passing result.

What actually comes from UHR

Five things can be checked directly on the agency's website:

• Five example questions. UHR has published five examples of how the test questions may be designed. They cover the role of the public sector, Sweden's head of state, natural resources, the historical union with Finland, and freedom of expression. We work through them one by one in our article on UHR's example questions.
• The study material. UHR has produced the educational material Sverige i fokus ahead of the test. It can be downloaded freely as a PDF, and the chapters are also available as audio files.
• The format. According to UHR, the test consists of approximately 60 multiple-choice questions with four answer options, one of which is correct. The actual test time is 90 minutes, and the test is written on paper and in Swedish.
• The test day. The test takes place on the morning of 15 August 2026 at Stockholmsmässan, and it is free of charge.
• That it is a trial test (utprövningsprov). UHR describes the August test as a trial test: it is the first time the test questions are used in a real test situation. According to UHR the questions have been trialled in various ways before, but in August they are given for the first time on a larger scale to the test's target group. For that reason, UHR says generous time will be allowed on the day.

That is the official surface as far as questions and format go. There is no official question bank and no official practice test.

How to recognise a fabricated question

You do not need to know the answer to see that something is wrong. Four signals go a long way:

• The claim about where it came from. Phrasings like "real test questions", "leaked questions" or "the questions from the test" are warning signs in themselves. UHR has not published the test questions, so no outside party can produce them.
• No source behind the answer. A useful practice question can be traced to a chapter in Sverige i fokus, the material UHR produced ahead of the test. If the answer cannot be traced back to the material, it is hard to judge what the question rests on.
• Wrong subject. According to UHR, the August test concerns basic knowledge about Swedish society. A test in the Swedish language will be introduced at a later date. Questions about word order or idioms therefore do not belong here. The difference between the two tests is explained in the language test vs the citizenship test.
• Wrong format. The test consists of multiple-choice questions with four answer options. True/false, free text and ten answer options do not reflect the test. The format is covered in our walkthrough of the test questions.

Practice questions from private providers — what you should know

There are sites, apps and groups that give away or sell practice questions ahead of the test. medborgaretest.se is one of them — we run a service with more than 1,000 practice questions in civics, with a free tier and a paid subscription. That is precisely the kind of service the reporting describes. Four things are therefore worth stating plainly, about us and about everyone else:

• UHR does not stand behind any private provider. The agency writes, in its own words: "There may be practice tests on the internet that other people or companies have produced. UHR wants to be clear that we do not stand behind these and that their quality has not been checked by us or by any other authority." That applies to us as much as to anyone else.
• Practice questions are not test questions. Our questions are modelled on the subject areas in Sverige i fokus. They resemble the test's format, but they are written by us — not taken from the test.
• The official material costs nothing. Sverige i fokus is downloaded freely from uhr.se. Nobody needs to pay anyone to access UHR's own educational material. Start with the material; use practice questions to check whether it has stuck.
• Nobody knows which questions will come up. Neither we nor any other private provider can predict the test or know how many questions are needed to pass it. A large question bank is no guarantee — that is the hope UHR is warning about.

A reasonable way to use a practice service is therefore as a complement: read the official material, practise to find the gaps, go back to the material. Not the other way round.

Who may sit the test on 15 August?

One point often missed in the reporting: the August test is not open to everyone. UHR states that registration is closed and the test is full. It is also the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) that decides who may sit the test, and registration requires a letter from Migrationsverket.

For most people preparing right now, this most likely concerns a later test date. That is an argument for spending your time on the material rather than chasing questions claimed to come from 15 August in particular.

Frequently asked questions

Are there real Swedish citizenship test questions online?

No. The only thing UHR itself has published is five examples of how the test questions may be designed. UHR has not published any actual test questions. Sites or groups claiming to have "the real questions" do not have them.

What is UHR warning about?

UHR states on its website that there may be practice tests on the internet produced by other people or companies, and that the agency does not stand behind them and has not checked their quality. UHR recommends that you rely on uhr.se and the official study material.

Is it against the rules to practise with questions from private sites?

No, it is not prohibited. But UHR does not stand behind any private provider, and no practice questions are real test questions. Use them as a complement to the official material, not as a replacement.

What does the official study material cost?

Sverige i fokus is downloaded freely from uhr.se as a PDF and is also available as mp3 audio files. The test on 15 August 2026 is free of charge according to UHR.

Can I register for the test on 15 August?

No. UHR states that registration is closed and the test is full. Migrationsverket decides who may sit the test, and registration requires a letter from Migrationsverket.

Next step

Do what UHR recommends first: go to uhr.se, read the five example questions and download Sverige i fokus. It costs nothing, and it is the only source that comes with certainty from the agency behind the test. A walkthrough of the material is available in our guide to Sverige i fokus.

If you then want to test whether the knowledge has stuck, you can practise on medborgaretest.se. Our questions are built on the same material — but they are ours, not UHR's, and they do not replace the official material.

Sources: Sveriges Radio / P4 Stockholm (via TT, 17 July 2026); UHR – About the citizenship test; UHR – Educational material (Sverige i fokus). Quotes translated from Swedish. medborgaretest.se is an independent practice service and has no affiliation with UHR.