Oral
Written by us from the cantonal laws + the federal aid «Kenntnisse der Schweiz» — Lucerne assesses orally
Written from the official content; the real exam is an oral interview. The official catalogue alongside it is the facilitated-naturalisation one. Other questions are possible at the exam.
The real exam is oral. These values are for practice only and do not reproduce the official exam.
Real exam — How the test works
The Canton of Lucerne has no unified written test. Ordinary naturalisation is assessed orally by each commune's Bürgerrechtskommission, with no fixed question set. Every mock exam mixes cantonal and federal questions. The cantonal ones were written by US, from the cantonal constitution, the citizenship act and the political rights act; for history, geography and society, where the legal texts are silent, from public sources (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA). The federal ones come from the «Kenntnisse der Schweiz», the official study aid of the facilitated naturalisation (federal SEM), not of the communal interview. These are not the questions of the real interview.
| Topic | federal | cantonal | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democracy & Federalism | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Geography | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| History | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Society & Everyday life | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Total | 24 | 20 | 44 |
| Topic | federal | cantonal | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democracy & Federalism | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Geography | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| History | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Society & Everyday life | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Total | 12 | 12 | 24 |
Sample questions
In welchem Kanton wohnen Sie?
Geografie · cantonal question
Wie heisst der Luzerner Hausberg?
Geografie · cantonal question
Aus welchen Farben besteht das Wappen Ihres Wohnkantons?
Geografie · cantonal question
Zu welcher Region der Schweiz fühlt sich der Kanton Luzern zugehörig?
Geografie · cantonal question
Wie heisst der grösste See, der teilweise im Kanton Luzern liegt?
Geografie · cantonal question
Was ist ein wichtiges Merkmal der Demokratie?
Democracy and Federalism
Was ist das 3-Säulen-Prinzip?
Democracy and Federalism
Welche politischen Rechte erhalten Sie mit der Einbürgerung?
Democracy and Federalism
Questions and correct answers come from the canton's official questionnaire. Where the original is an open question, the three wrong answers are ours.
Simulated written exam
Simulated oral exam Oral · true to the interview
24 questions · self-assessment, no pass mark
79 communes in the canton
No commune matches.
« Für die Einbürgerung werden Grundkenntnisse der Schweiz und des Kantons Luzern vorausgesetzt. Die 100 Fragen und Antworten dienen zur Prüfungsvorbereitung. »
gemeinden.lu.ch ↗
Oral. Written from the official content; the real exam is an oral interview. The official catalogue alongside it is the facilitated-naturalisation one. Other questions are possible at the exam.
44 questions (practice) · 60 min (practice) · 29 correct answers out of 44 to pass (practice).
The official source is gemeinden.lu.ch, published by Dienststelle Soziales und Gesellschaft (DISG), Kanton Luzern. The app prepares you for it free of charge — Written from official sources. ↗
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Each canton sets its own exam. These pages say what each one asks, from the canton's own published material.