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Review of Citizenship Exam Practice Websites

snoopy719

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Nov 27, 2016
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Hello All,

There are a whole bunch of websites that provide free citizenship exam practice tests. I have tried a handful of them and I've found that some of them are really different in the content of the exams that they have. I was looking here on the forum for threads where people have posted their comparative reviews of different websites, but I haven't found any. So, I thought I would start by sharing my own review:

1. Richmond Library (http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/): These exam questions focus on the core parts of the Discover Canada book, don't have a lot of tricks, and generally straightforwards. I can solve this exam with no mistakes, or at most 1 mistake out of 20.

2. http://citizenshipcounts.ca/quiz : This one is very similar to the Richmond Library exam, and of similar difficulty. Some questions are out of date; for example, the correct answer to one question I encountered still had Mulcair as the leader of the federal NDP.

3. APNA Toronto (https://www.apnatoronto.com/canadian-citizenship-test-practice/): This one is a lot harder and seems to me to have questions about minutiae.

4. http://www.v-soul.com : Also harder, and has some almost too-specific questions (E.g. "in which province is Banff National Park?") and tricky questions (E.g. "Which province has the most bilingual Canadians?" where the answers include New Brunswick (the only officially bilingual province but one with low population overall), Ontario (official language English but a populous province with the largest number of Francophones outside Quebec), and Quebec).

Snoopy
 

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I really wish I had kept the bookmark I had for the test I used in Calgary. With an exception to one question, the entire practice was spot on to what I saw at the exam. Was why I got 19/20 and not worse.

For ADHD people like me who learn by hands-on practice and trial-and-error, these test are a huge benefit. I honestly don't think I'd pass if I just read the book and took the exam. I took the practices probably like 40-60 times. I took the practices over and over until I got 20/20 like 5 times in a row and in under 2-3 minutes.

The fact that this is proprietary and treated like state secrets is absurd. The gov should embrace different ways of learning.
 

razerblade

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Feb 21, 2014
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Has anyone tried https://www.canadiancitizenshiptest.co yet? Would it be worth the cost?
There are enough free resources online. There is no need to pay.

http://www.citizenshipsupport.ca (Free Quiz and you can purchase more for $29)
http://citizenshipcounts.ca/quiz (Study Guide nicely organized in section, Flashcard, and Quiz) - Free no purchase required
http://www.v-soul.com/onlinetest/canada_citizen_test/ (Quiz Only) - Free
http://www.thecanadiantest.com/citizenship-test/14 (Study Guide and Quiz) - Free
http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/ (Quiz only) - Free
https://www.apnatoronto.com/canadian-citizenship-test-practice/ (Quiz only) - Free