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What is on indfødsretsprøven: all 45 questions, and the two ways to fail

Forty-five questions in forty-five minutes. Thirty-five you can revise for and ten you cannot, and five of those ten carry a threshold that fails you on their own.

45 questions36 to pass4 of 5 on values
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The paper, as SIRI describes it

There are two thresholds, not one

This is the part that catches people, and it is worth being exact about because the arithmetic is not intuitive.

The first threshold is the obvious one: at least 36 of the 45 answers correct. The second sits inside it. Of the five questions on Danish values, at least four must be right. Miss two of those five and you have failed the whole paper, even with 40 or 44 correct overall.

So a score of 36 does not always pass and a score of 44 does not always pass. Five questions out of forty-five carry the power to end it on their own, and they are five of the ten that no study material covers.

What that means for how you revise

  • The 35 material questions are the ones you can actually study. Study them.
  • The 5 current-affairs questions reward reading Danish news in the months before the sitting, not cramming.
  • The 5 values questions are the highest-stakes per question on the paper and there is no official list of them.
Anyone selling you a bank of the values questions is selling you a guess. They are unprepared by design.

The questions people ask about the paper

How many questions do you need right to pass indfødsretsprøven?

36 out of 45. On top of that, at least 4 of the 5 questions about Danish values must be correct. Both conditions have to hold: missing the values threshold fails the test whatever the overall score.

Can you take indfødsretsprøven in English?

No. It is set and sat in Danish only. It is a separate requirement from the Danish language test, which is normally Prøve i Dansk 3 at B2 level.

What happens if you fail?

You can sit it again at the following prøvetermin, and you pay the fee again. The test runs twice a year, so a failed attempt costs about six months.

That was ten. There are 3,000+ more.

929 of them are Danish, drilled chapter by chapter in the order the official material sets them, with a mistakes deck, spaced repetition and full mocks under the real clock.

Written by Belong Nordic from the authority’s own study material — they are not SIRI’s questions, and the real sitting uses its own.

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