U.S. Citizenship Test & Interview: Mar’s Journey (N-400, Study Tips, Nerves, and Oath Ceremony)

And then my next question is going to lead into the actual citizenship test.

Good.

I already know the answer to this, but did you study for the test? And if so, how did you prepare? My students usually ask that, how can I prepare for the test? So what would you recommend?

So I think in my case, when I noticed that the date of my green light, let's say that way, of when I could apply, I started studying.

But I was studying really, like not taking it very seriously because I just, I love trivia, as you know.

Mm-hmm.

It was just a fun exercise to just go through the questions and see what can I can't answer.

So every soft day when we were on a road trip or just didn't have anything to do, my partner and I, we would just ask the questions.

And again, I would say that for probably a year, I answered 90% wrong.

I don't know.

Yes, anything around civics is just like, oh, many senators, all that.

I just didn't know.

I knew the geography and, yeah, like some international history, like wars that were fought for the United States.

But everything regarding government, like civic politics, I did not get any wrong or any right.

Yeah, you're right.

That actually surprises me just because for my listeners, when I prepped with Mar and I was helping her go through the questions, she got like 98%.

I think you missed one and you quickly corrected yourself.

I'll stop.

I think when I started just studying very aggressively, so after I was like, okay, I remember some of them.

Now let's go and actually put some time and effort into learning every single question and memorizing all the answers.

There is actually a podcast and some YouTube videos that you can listen and then you can just go faster on the questions.

And then it was really helpful that You helped me probably one day or two days before.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that was just really helpful.