Une amie vous montre un buste de femme coiffée d'un bonnet phrygien dans le hall de sa mairie. Quel symbole de la République regardez-vous ?
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Examen Civique (French Civic Exam) · Bonus
Examen Civique Mixed Practice: The Bonus Training Set (2026)
This page is a mixed practice set for the examen civique: 258 original training questions that span all five official themes at once, from the values of the Republic to daily life in France. They are not taken from the official list; we wrote them to re-test the same facts with fresh wording, scenarios and reversed angles, so you can check whether you understand the material or have merely memorised the official phrasings. The free practice questions below are in the original French, like the exam itself.
Practice
Free practice questions
Laquelle de ces propositions n'est PAS un symbole officiel de la République française ?
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« Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité » : à quoi correspond cette formule en France ?
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Dans la devise républicaine, quelle valeur exprime l'idée de solidarité et d'entraide entre les citoyens ?
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« Le jour de gloire est arrivé » est un vers tiré de quel chant ?
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Combien de couleurs comporte le drapeau de la République française ?
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Quel animal sert d'emblème associé à la France, notamment sur les maillots sportifs nationaux ?
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Laquelle de ces affirmations sur la laïcité est FAUSSE ?
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La loi de 1905 est souvent citée comme le texte fondateur d'un grand principe républicain. Lequel ?
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Un agent d'accueil d'une préfecture porte un signe religieux bien visible pendant son service. Que dit la règle de neutralité ?
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What the bonus set is, and why it exists
The official list of 258 knowledge questions is public, which is excellent news for candidates but creates a quiet trap: after two or three passes through the same list, you start recognising the shape of each question and the position of its answer rather than the fact behind it. The bonus training set breaks that pattern. Each of its 258 questions is an original item, explicitly marked as non-official in its source reference, that attacks a fact from the official themes at a different angle. Where the official list asks directly for the motto of the Republic, a bonus question hands you the phrase Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité and asks what it corresponds to. Where the official list asks what Marianne is, a bonus question puts you in a town hall in front of a bust wearing a Phrygian cap and asks you to name the symbol. The set also uses forms the official list rarely does, such as questions asking which statement is FALSE or which item is NOT an official symbol, the kind of reversal that instantly exposes shallow memorisation. Every question still carries a full explanation, so a wrong answer teaches you the underlying fact rather than just costing you a point.
How to use mixed practice alongside the official list
Treat the official list as your syllabus and the bonus set as your rehearsal. The real exam is 40 questions in 45 minutes with a pass mark of 32, and 12 of those 40 are situational questions that apply civic knowledge to concrete cases, so practising scenario-style items is directly relevant preparation, not a detour. A sensible rhythm: study one official theme, take the corresponding theme page on this hub, then run a stretch of the mixed set to see whether the knowledge survives contact with unfamiliar wording. Because the bonus questions are shuffled across all five themes, principles and values, institutions, rights and duties, history, geography and culture, and living in society, they also simulate the jumps of the real exam, where a question about the Sénat can be followed by one about the carte Vitale. Note that in our app the timed 40-question mock draws only from the five official themes, weighted the way the exam weights them; the bonus set sits outside the mock as pure training material. If you can hold your accuracy above the 80 percent bar on mixed bonus questions, the official list will feel comfortable, and the exam itself more comfortable still.
| Point | Official list | Bonus training set |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Ministère de l'Intérieur official list (Licence Ouverte 2.0 via data.gouv.fr) | Original questions written by us, marked non-official |
| Number of questions | 258 | 258 |
| Can appear on the real exam | Yes, the knowledge questions are drawn from this list | No, training material only |
| Style | Direct, factual, official wording | Reworded, scenario-based, FALSE/NOT reversals |
| Themes covered | Five official themes | The same five themes, mixed together |
| Used in the app's timed mock | Yes, weighted by theme | No, practice mode only |
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Are the bonus training questions official examen civique questions?
No, and that is the point. The 258 bonus questions are original training items written by us, each marked as non-official in its source reference. They re-test the facts from the five official themes with fresh wording and scenarios, so you can verify you understand the material rather than recognising the official phrasings.
Why practise non-official questions if the official list is public?
Because repeated passes through a fixed list train recognition, not understanding. The real exam also includes 12 situational questions that apply civic knowledge to concrete cases, so scenario-style practice is directly relevant. If you can answer a fact when it arrives in unfamiliar wording, you genuinely know it.
Do the bonus questions appear in the app's timed mock exam?
No. The app's 40-question timed mock draws only from the five official themes, weighted by theme, and is scored like the real exam with a pass mark of 32 out of 40. The bonus set lives in practice mode as extra training material, deliberately kept out of the mock so your mock score reflects the real exam pool.
Are the bonus questions in French like the real exam?
Yes. Every question in the bank, official and bonus alike, is presented in French, because the examen civique is administered in French. In the app, each question carries explanations in both French and English, so you can confirm your understanding in English while training your reading of French exam language.
How were the answers to the bonus questions checked?
Each bonus question was written against the facts established by the official list and carries its own explanation and a source reference identifying its theme. The bank then went through a cross-model quality gate in which a second, independent AI model verified that each recorded answer is supported by its cited material before release.