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36 questions, 32 that count, 24 to pass: how statsborgerprøven is scored

Four of the thirty-six questions do not score at all, and you are not told which. That is normal, it is published, and it changes how the pass mark should feel.

36 questions32 score24 to pass
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The numbers, as HK-dir publishes them

What the four uncounted questions are

They are trial questions. HK-dir is testing them for use in future papers, and your answers to them help decide whether they are good enough to keep. They are not marked on the screen and you cannot tell which four they were.

This is standard practice for large-scale tests and it is the same reason Sweden's first sitting in August 2026 had no pass mark set in advance. A new question has to be used before anyone knows how hard it really is.

So what does 24 out of 32 actually mean

Seventy-five per cent of the scoring questions. Not 24 out of 36, which would be sixty-seven per cent and is the figure people assume when they see 36 on the screen.

The practical consequence is small but worth knowing: you have eight wrong answers of room among the scored questions, not twelve. And because you cannot tell which four are the trial ones, the only sensible approach is to answer all thirty-six as if they all count.

The Norwegian requirement is separate

Passing statsborgerprøven is one of two test requirements. UDI also asks for an oral Norwegian test at level B1 or higher for most applicants. A2 is enough in a few defined cases: if you are stateless, if you are over 55 and came to Norway on an application for protection or as a resettled refugee, if you are over 55 and receive disability benefits, or if you applied for Norwegian citizenship before 1 October 2022.

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

785 of them are Norwegian, 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 HK-dir’s questions, and the real sitting uses its own.

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