Free mock test. No sign-up.
The Life in the UK test,
taught properly.
Most practice sites mark you wrong and move on. Brittify tells you why, in plain English, with the fact behind it and something to help you remember it. Start with a full mock test. It is free, and there is nothing to sign up for.
24 questions. 45 minutes. 18 right to pass. The same shape as the real test.
The problem
The official handbook is 180 pages of dense government prose.
It is accurate, and it is hard going. Harder still if English is your second language, or you are fitting revision around a job. Most people read it twice, remember a third of it, and hope. Then they sit a test where one careless mix-up between 1707 and 1801 costs a mark.
There is no way round knowing the facts. There is a much better way of learning them.
Why it works
Three things a question bank cannot do.
It teaches, then tests
Get one wrong and you do not simply see a tick somewhere else. You get the fact in plain English, the reason the test keeps asking it, and a hook to remember it by. A wrong answer is a gap you found, never a failure.
It names the traps
1707 or 1801. Great Britain or the United Kingdom. Crown dependency or overseas territory. The test lives on these mix-ups, so we flag all 97 of them where they come up and drill the difference until it sticks.
Every fact is referenced
Each one carries its chapter, section and page in the official handbook, so you can always check us. Accuracy is the whole product. Find a mistake and we fix it in public.
Start here
A full mock, in the real format.
24 questions drawn fresh each time. 45 minutes on the clock. 18 right to pass. Flag anything you want to come back to, exactly as you can in the real test. At the end you get your score by chapter, the gaps you found, and every question explained.
Sitting the real test?
It costs £50 and you book it on GOV.UK. A retake costs another £50, which is the honest reason to practise until the score is boring.
Coming soon
Two things are on the way.
Everything above is live today. These two are what the rest of Brittify has been building towards, and nobody on the email list is charged anything for being on it.
The Brittify course
The whole test taught in order, in short lessons you can do on a phone on the way to work. Every fact in its place, with the story around it, so the history stops being a list of years. It runs here on this website.
One-off passes from £19. Not a subscription.
The Brittify app
The course teaches it, the app keeps it there. Daily review on your phone, your gaps brought back until they stick, the mock simulator, and a readiness score that only says ready when you would actually pass.
iPhone and Android. Same one-off passes, no renewal to cancel.
No dates yet, because we will not put up one we cannot keep. One email each, on the day it happens.
The books
If you would rather learn it on paper.
Two A4 PDFs, built from the same 783 verified facts as everything here. You buy them from us and download them straight away. Both carry a code that opens all 2,451 practice questions on this site.
The one that teaches
Complete Study Guide
335 pages. A4 PDF. Instant download.
A more engaging way through the same ground as the official handbook. The same topics, the same facts, written in plain English and illustrated on every page.
£19.99
The one you write in
Study Companion
107 pages. A4 PDF. Print-first.
Organised notes, blank timelines and family trees to complete, and room for your own words. Works beside our guide or beside the official handbook.
£6.99
Not on sale quite yet. Both books are finished and in final proofing. Join the list below and we will tell you the day they go up.
Free, and yours in one click
Twenty-two films for the history you have to learn anyway.
Reading the same chapter for the fourth time stops working. Watching something does not replace the revision, but it gives the names and the dates somewhere to live. Once you have watched a thing happen, it stops being a line on a page.
- Twenty-two of them, from the medieval kings to Britain after the war
- Grouped by the chapter of the test each one sits next to
- One line each on what the film gets right and what it invented
- Three pages, free, and no reason to buy anything to use it
Straight answers
The honest notes.
Is Brittify official?
No. Brittify is an independent study aid. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Home Office or the UK Government. You book the real test at gov.uk.
Are these the real test questions?
No, and nobody selling you questions has them. The real questions are confidential. Ours are written from the same source the test is set from, the official handbook, and every fact carries its chapter and page so you can check it yourself.
Can you tell me whether I need to take the test?
No. We are not immigration advisers and it would be wrong of us to guess. Check the rules on GOV.UK, or speak to a regulated adviser about your own case.
I bought a book somewhere else. Can I still use the questions?
Yes. Every copy carries the same code wherever you bought it. Type it in on the practice page and all 2,451 questions open up.
What if you have got something wrong?
Tell us and we will fix it, and say so in public on our corrections page. A citizenship product that plays loose with facts is worthless.