Sweden · 15 August 2026

The first medborgarskapsprov, and why it settled less than it seems

Sweden's first citizenship test was sat on 15 August 2026. UHR calls it an utprövningsprov, a trial sitting, and that single word explains why there is still no pass mark.

Trial sittingNo pass mark setPress figures are not rules
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Something confusing happened in the second half of August 2026. A Swedish citizenship test was sat for the first time, it was covered widely, and specific numbers went into circulation. At the same time UHR carried on saying that the number of questions, the time limit and the pass mark for the next sitting are not published. Both of those things are true, and the word that reconciles them is utprövningsprov.

What UHR says about that sitting

So what about the 60 questions and the 90 minutes?

Those figures come from press coverage of the August sitting, not from UHR. Swedish outlets reporting on the day described a paper of 60 multiple choice questions with four options, at a level corresponding to year nine of Swedish school. Several practice sites have since printed them as the format of the test.

They may well describe the August paper accurately. What they cannot do is describe the next one, because UHR has said the number of questions and the time limit for the next sitting are still to be confirmed, and because the whole point of a trial sitting is that the paper is being tuned. A site quoting 60 questions in 90 minutes as the rule is quoting a newspaper as if it were a regulation.

The one thing that is certain about the format is the part UHR has stated: the test is in Swedish, written on paper, and made of multiple choice questions with one correct answer.

Still unpublished after the first sitting

  • The pass mark. UHR sets it after a sitting, from the results.
  • The number of questions and the time limit for the next sitting.
  • The date of the next sitting in samhällskunskap, which UHR says will be announced during the autumn.
  • The registration fee arrangements, although the amount is set in law for 2027.
This page changes when UHR publishes. Until then, a pass mark for medborgarskapsprovet does not exist, however confidently it is printed.

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

963 of them are Swedish, 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 UHR’s questions, and the real sitting uses its own.

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