About CITB Practice Test

Who we are

CITB Practice Test is a small, independently run UK site. We research the CITB HS&E test and CITB Site Safety Plus courses, write practice questions and explanations, and publish plain-English guides to the bits of the process that confuse people. The free CITB practice test itself is the reason the site exists. Every question is free to revise and you can sit a mock test without signing up. An optional paid plan adds unlimited practice and mock tests.

We are not affiliated with CITB, CSCS Ltd or Pearson VUE, and we say so on every page. See our disclaimer for exactly what that means.

Why we built it

The CITB HS&E test costs £23.50 a go, has a brutal 90% pass mark, and the information around it is scattered and frequently out of date. While researching this site we found competitor pages still quoting the old £22.50 fee, still listing eight specialist topics when the official list has been twelve for years, and still calling the revision book by a code CITB retired.

Somebody paying two days' wages for a test and a card deserves better than that. So the rule here is simple: check it against the official source, date it, and say plainly when we do not know.

What we do

• Free mock tests

  Full 50-question timed mocks that mirror the real format: 45 minutes, 90% pass mark, and a score breakdown by topic at the end.

• Practice by topic

  Question banks for each of the CITB knowledge topics, practised 20 questions at a time, with a worked explanation for every question so you learn the reasoning and not just the answer.

• Guides to the process

  Which paper to sit, what the test costs, what ID to bring, how booking works, what happens if you fail, and the Site Safety Plus courses.

Who stands behind the content

CITB Practice Test publishes as the CITB Practice Test Team rather than under personal bylines, and we would rather be judged on work you can check than on a name you cannot. Every factual claim about the test, the fee or the card is sourced to CITB, CSCS, HSE or legislation.gov.uk, the sources are listed openly at the foot of each topic page, and anything we could not verify against one of them has been left out rather than approximated. Our editorial policy sets out exactly how that is done and how questions are written and checked.

For authority on health and safety law, go to the HSE. For the official position on the test or the card, go to CITB and CSCS. What this site is for is explaining what they said and giving you questions to practise on.

Our standards

• Editorial policy: how content is produced and kept independent of advertising.
• Sources and methodology: where our facts come from and how questions are written.
• Fact-checking and corrections: how to tell us we are wrong, and what we do about it.
• Disclaimer: what this site is not.
• Affiliate disclosure: how the site is funded.

How we are funded

Every question on the site is free to revise, within a free allowance of practice quizzes. The site is funded by optional paid plans that unlock unlimited practice, mock tests and study tools. It carries no advertising and no affiliate links. If that changes it will be display advertising, or affiliate links to revision products such as the official CITB publications, and any commission would come at no extra cost to you and would never change what we recommend or what we say a fee is. We have written those rules down in advance in our affiliate disclosure.