Written
IFC course manuals — and official civic sources (USTAT, ti.ch)
Written from the official content. The federal part uses official questions. Other questions are possible at the exam. Question count and duration are estimates (not published).
Study questions authored from the official IFC course manuals (Camorino, ed. 09.2025) and from official and public civic sources — not the real test questions. Question count, pass mark and duration are neither published by the canton nor stated in the course manuals (estimated values).
Real exam — How the test works
Part of the questions are authored from the manuals of the official citizenship course (IFC Camorino, ed. 09.2025) — the syllabus the test is built on. The rest come from official and public civic sources (Switzerland in Brief, USTAT, ti.ch) and, for the federal part, from other Swiss cantons' official questions, translated into Italian. The canton publishes neither the questions, nor the question count, pass mark or duration of the real test, and the course manuals do not state them either: these values are our estimates. These are not the real Ticino test questions.
The municipality may summon the candidate for a hearing/interview before the municipal commission (or the legislative body): it is an assessment of INTEGRATION — discretionary, not standardised, varying from municipality to municipality — NOT a knowledge exam. Civic knowledge is checked only in writing (the IFC Camorino exam, whose syllabus is the citizenship course manuals; LCit art. 16 cpv. 3); the right to be heard (LCit art. 34) remains guaranteed in any case.
| Topic | federal | cantonal | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Geography | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Civics | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Regional context | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Socio-economic context | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Total | 25 | 25 | 50 |
Sample questions
Quale patto firmarono nel 1182 le valli di Blenio e Leventina?
Storia · cantonal question
In quante circoscrizioni (baliaggi) erano divisi i territori che nel 1803 formarono il Cantone Ticino?
Storia · cantonal question
Dopo quale battaglia del 1515 il confine meridionale ticinese fu portato alla sua posizione attuale?
Storia · cantonal question
Nel 1798, per decisione di Napoleone, i baliaggi furono riuniti a formare quali due cantoni?
Storia · cantonal question
In quale anno i due cantoni furono unificati nel Cantone Ticino, entrato nella Confederazione?
Storia · cantonal question
In quale anno la Svizzera adottò la costituzione federale che la trasformò in Stato federale moderno?
Storia
Quante sono le lingue nazionali della Svizzera?
Geografia
Quale delle quattro lingue nazionali svizzere si parla nel Cantone Ticino?
Geografia
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
100 communes in the canton
No commune matches.
Written (MCQ). Written from the official content. The federal part uses official questions. Other questions are possible at the exam. Question count and duration are estimates (not published).
50 questions (estimate) · 60 min (estimate) · 35 correct answers out of 50 to pass (estimate).
The official source is www4.ti.ch, published by Sezione della popolazione. 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.
Swiss Naturalization Test
Aargau
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Appenzell Innerrhoden
Basel-Landschaft
Basel-Stadt
Bern
Fribourg
Geneva
Glarus
Grisons
Jura
Lucerne
Neuchâtel
Nidwalden
Obwalden
Schaffhausen
Schwyz
Solothurn
St. Gallen
Thurgau
Uri
Valais
Vaud
Zug
Zurich