Study tips for the citizenship test

The official study material Sverige i fokus is the starting point if you want to prepare for the citizenship test. Here are practical tips on how you can study it, without us claiming anything about the exact content or difficulty of the test, because UHR has not published that.

Start with the official material

UHR has produced Sverige i fokus together with the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket), on assignment from the Government. You find it as a pdf and as audio files on uhr.se. Read or listen to one chapter at a time, and make short notes in your own words. Use the corrected version from 10 August 2026 or a later version.

Listen when you cannot read

UHR offers all chapters as audio files in mp3 format. It is a good way to revise on the way to work or in everyday life. Feel free to combine listening with reading, so that you both hear and see the words.

Plan short sessions

Fifteen minutes every day gives better results than three hours once a week. Choose one theme per day, for example how Sweden is governed, political elections and parties, law and justice or the welfare society, and revise it the day after.

• Read or listen to one section.
• Write three facts in your own words.
• Answer a few practice questions on the same section.
• Revise the questions you got wrong the day after and the week after.

Practise the way the test asks

UHR writes that the questions are multiple-choice questions with four answer options where one is correct. Read the five example questions from UHR and practise reading each question and all the options carefully. Because there is no negative marking, it pays to guess on the questions you do not know.

Be careful with practice tests

UHR warns that practice tests from others have not been checked by UHR or any other authority. Use them as help for revising, not as a prediction of the test. This also applies to our own questions. Rely on the official material.