On August 15th the first civics test for citizenship will be held for around 1,000 people at the Stockholmsmässan conference centre in Älvsjö, southern Stockholm. Here's what you n…

On August 15th the first civics test for citizenship will be held for around 1,000 people at the Stockholmsmässan conference centre in Älvsjö, southern Stockholm. Here's what you need to know. The Local spoke to Andreas Sandberg, project leader for the test at the Swedish Council of Higher Education (UHR), and Sara Sjudin, from the Swedish Migration Agency, about the preparations for the test. Sanderg noted that UHR viewed the test as having "a higher stake for the individual" than högskoleprovet, the university entrance exam it also administers. "It concerns citizenship, so we're trying to make this day as good and transparent and welcoming as possible, and trying to create the best possibilities for people to get a good result on the test". "I'd love to say that everything is ready, but not everything is," he said of the final preparations. "We're still working on some details, but most things are in place, and hopefully it will be a good day and run smoothly." The test consists of 60 multiple choice questions with four possible answers of which only one is correct. Examinees have 90 minutes to answer the questions, which Sandberg said was "a generous test time". The test will be in Swedish, although the language level of the questions will not be harder than the lower intermediate level required for citizenship. The questions and required knowledge is being decided by a team at Gothenburg University, while UHR is responsible for all other aspects of the exam.