On Saturday, 9 May 2026 at exactly 13:00 Copenhagen time, 222 candidates sat down to take CivicLearn's free Generalprøve — a 45-minute, 45-question simulation of the real Indfødsretsprøven they'll face on June 3. Nobody charged a fee. Nobody graded essays. Everyone got their results on screen the moment they hit submit.
The data is now in. It tells us where preparation pays off, where intuition fails, and what the next three weeks should focus on.
The headline numbers
Of 222 attempts, 219 were submitted (3 abandoned silently). Eighty would have passed the real exam's dual requirement of 36/45 overall plus 4/5 on the Danish values section. The mean score was 29.10. The median was 33. One participant got a perfect 45.
That sounds low compared to the real Indfødsretsprøven's typical 60–70% pass rate. But it isn't, once you look at who actually showed up.
Two stories in one dataset
Look at how those 33 zero-clickers spent their 45 minutes: their average duration was 45.5 minutes. They didn't speed-click and walk out. They sat down, clicked something — perhaps just to see how the page worked — and walked away. The exam timed itself out and auto-submitted near-blank answers.
If you exclude that disengaged group, what remains is 186 engaged participants who actually took the test seriously: a mean of 34.23/45 and a pass rate of 43%.
Where the points are: a topic ranking
Two intuitive truths confirmed: people know what Denmark stands for (the values section was the easiest by a clear margin), and people follow current events (the 2026 election, Mathias Gidsel's third world-best-handball-player award, the new Dronning Margrethe II's Bro — all widely answered correctly).
One finding against expectation: history came in mid-pack at 63%, despite being the section everyone knows they should study. The hardest content is the catch-all of themes, scientific facts, and Denmark-in-the-world questions — exactly the questions that reward careful reading rather than living in Denmark.
The six questions that broke most test-takers
Notice the pattern: five of these six are specific facts. Dates, names, procedural terms. They reward the reader who actually opened the manual and committed to memorizing details. They penalize the one who skimmed and assumed cultural osmosis would carry them through.
This is where preparation has the highest leverage in the next three weeks.
What people did get right
The five easiest questions all scored above 81% correctness:
| # | Question | % correct |
|---|---|---|
| Q12 | A person can serve as statsminister for more than two terms | 85% |
| Q10 | Politicians cannot decide individual court cases | 84% |
| Q44 | Women can be bishops in the Danish folkekirke | 83% |
| Q27 | H.C. Andersen wrote internationally famous fairy tales | 81% |
| Q18 | Copenhagen is Denmark's largest city | 81% |
These cluster around two patterns: basic democratic principles that follow from the premise "Denmark is a democracy with separation of powers," and cultural facts that anyone who has lived in Denmark for a year will absorb without effort.
Speed didn't hurt — and may have helped
Participants who finished in under 10 minutes averaged 32.3/45 — slightly higher than those who took 30+ minutes (31.0). The lesson isn't to rush; it's to trust your first instinct on questions you actually know. Re-reading rarely changes a wrong answer into a right one; it sometimes does the reverse.
Two more observations from the margins
The values gate held — barely. The Indfødsretsprøven requires both 36/45 total and 4/5 on the values section. In our cohort, only two participants scored 36+ but failed by missing the værdier threshold. The 36/45 total is the binding constraint for almost everyone — but those two failures show the values gate isn't theoretical.
The 28 just below the line. Twenty-eight participants scored 31–35 — within striking distance of passing. If you're studying for June 3, this is your reference point: small improvements in factual recall move you from "almost passing" to "passing." Three or four more dates committed to memory may be all that separates the two outcomes.
What this means for June 3
Three weeks from now, the real exam runs. Based on what 186 engaged practice-takers showed us:
Where to focus your remaining prep time: specific dates from Danish history (party founding years, EU referendums, key reforms), procedural terms (betænkning, finanslov, ombudsmandens role), and the "themes" and "Denmark in the world" chapters of the læremateriale.
Where you can probably coast: Danish values (intuitive and tested gently), current events from 2026 (you've absorbed these by living here), and famous cultural figures (you know who H.C. Andersen is).
On exam day: don't panic if questions seem hard early — the average passer left with 20 minutes unused. Trust your first instinct on factual questions. Read carefully on procedural and legal questions where one word changes the meaning.
CivicLearn's training platform includes 800+ practice questions, full mock exams, and topic-by-topic study plans. Three weeks is enough — if you spend them on the right material. Start training for June 3 →
Methodology. Two hundred twenty-two attempts captured between 13:00 and 14:46 CET on 2026-05-09. Pass criterion mirrors the official Indfødsretsprøven: 36/45 total plus at least 4/5 on the værdier section. The 33 attempts scoring ≤5/45 are presumed disengaged based on a 45.5-minute average duration (the page auto-submits at exam end). Topic categorization follows the official læremateriale chapter structure.