When is the new, harder US citizenship exam is going to take place?”
This site has a list of the proposed questions that are being considered for the test. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to conduct a pilot test of 142 questions on U.S. history and government designed to replace the set of questions currently used as part of the citizenship test. USCIS will administer the pilot test to about 6,000 volunteer citizenship applicants in 10 cities beginning in early 2007. The pilot program will allow USCIS to work out any problems and refine the test before it is fully implemented nationwide in the spring of 2008. During the trial period, volunteer applicants who choose to take the pilot test can immediately take the current test if they incorrectly answer a pilot question. To pass, applicants will have to correctly answer six of 10 selected questions. The 10 pilot test sites are: Albany, NY; Boston, MA; Charleston, SC; Denver, CO; El Paso, TX; Kansas City, MO; Miami, FL; San Antonio, TX; Tucson, AZ; and Yakima, WA.
