You just booked the test — now what?
Eighteen topics, 1,232 possible questions, and only 45 minutes on test day. Portage builds you a steady, adaptive path so you arrive prepared instead of overwhelmed.
Start free →Who Portage is for
Different starting points — same destination.
Don't study the same way twice.
If you failed once, the worst move is to re-read the guide and hope it sticks. Portage diagnoses your exact weak concepts and drills them until your mastery score crosses the line.
Find your gaps →Take the test in English. Understand it in your own.
The real test is in English or French. Portage keeps the questions in the test language but explains every wrong answer in nine languages — so the why lands in the language you think in.
See your language →Inside Portage
Three screens, one question they all answer: are you ready?
Every Portage session begins on the Dashboard, drills through Progress, and ends on the Session Report. The same three views, over and over, until test day.
01
Dashboard
One ring, one sentence, one button. Your pass-probability today, turned into a number you can act on.
🔥 5-day streak · auto-paced
02
Progress
Eighteen topics ranked by where the next minute of study gains you the most. Open the guide to the right page — every time.
Updated after every session
03
Session report
Mastered. Improving. Struggling. Not Started. Never end a session unsure what to do tomorrow.
One verdict, every time
The adaptive engine
Portage knows what you don’t know — before you do.
Every answer updates a mastery score for one of eighteen concept areas. The next question always comes from where you'll gain the most pass-probability — not whatever's next in a fixed list.
- 01Prerequisites firstif you don't know who Cartier was, the engine won't quiz you on Confederation
- 02Struggling nextconcepts under 50% mastery come up more often
- 03Spaced repetitionmastered concepts return after a week — to keep them mastered
↳ Hover (or tap) any of the 18 topics from Discover Canada on the right to see which others build on it.
Sample knowledge mapSample
Rights & Freedoms92%
Symbols & Holidays88%
Geography & Regions84%
Identity & Values78%
Federal Elections67%
Parliament64%
Founding Peoples58%
Early History55%
Path to Confederation49%
Federal System42%
Responsibilities38%
Aboriginal Peoples28%
Monarchy & Crown—
Expansion—
War & Peacekeeping—
Economy & Trade—
Modern Canada—
Justice System—
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Next question: Aboriginal Peoples · foundation for Founding Peoples
Mastered ≥ 75%ImprovingStrugglingNot started
Percentages shown are illustrative — your real map starts blank and fills in as you answer questions.
Nine languages
Built for those who think in another language.
When you get a question wrong, Portage explains why in the language you actually think in — while keeping the test terms (Prime Minister, Member of Parliament) in English so you’ll recognise them on test day. Most apps get this wrong. They translate everything — including the test terms — which makes the explanation useless when you sit the real exam.
Questions stay in the test language (English or French) so you'll recognise them on test day — only the wrong-answer explanation translates.
Sourced from the official guide
Every Portage question traces back to a line in Discover Canada.
Discover Canada is the only book IRCC writes the citizenship test from. Portage was built by reading it bullet by bullet — nothing is fabricated, no question is hallucinated.
SOURCECh. 7 · p. 28
Discover Canada · How Canadians Govern Themselves
“Each riding (electoral district) elects one Member to the House of Commons. The political party with the most elected representatives normally forms the Government, with its leader becoming the Prime Minister.”
Verbatim · IRCC publication
BECOMES
PORTAGE QUESTIONQ-1042
Federal Elections · MCQ
When Canadians vote in a federal election, who are they voting for?
a.The Prime Minister directly
b.Their local Member of Parliament✓ correct
c.The party leader of their choice
d.The Governor General
1,232questions sourced
57source passages
335must-know facts
0fabricated questions
Pricing
Three stops on the trail. Begin where you can.
Start free. If the test is close, the Weekly sprint covers a week of unlimited drill. If you have time, Monthly is the considered pace.
Free
$0
to taste the product
- ✓Full notes & flash cards · 4 of 18 topics
- ✓30 practice questions / month
- ✓AI explanation on every wrong answer
- ✓All 9 languages
- −No AI Study Assistant
- −No timed practice test
Weekly
$5.99
/week · for the final sprint
- ✓Unlimited practice questions
- ✓All 18 topics — notes & flash cards
- ✓Full session report
- ✓Timed practice test (20 q · 45 min)
- ✓All 9 languages
Monthly
$9.99
/month · the considered pace
- ✓Everything in Weekly
- ✓AI Study Assistant
- ✓Spaced repetition across all 18 topics
- ✓Cancel anytime
- ✓All 9 languages
Portage is not affiliated with or endorsed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).