The invention discloses a method for determining the content of ferrous oxide in iron ore. The method comprises steps of a, weighing an iron ore sample, putting the sample into a conical flask, sequentially adding potassium fluoride, sodium bicarbonate and hydrochloric acid, covering with a porcelain cover, putting the flask on an electric furnace, and heating to boiling; b, transferring the diluted solution obtained in the step a into a beaker special for a potentiometric titrator; and c, inserting an indicating electrode and a reference electrode of the potentiometric titrator into the beaker special for the potentiometric titrator in the step b, titrating by adopting potassium dichromate standard solution, starting the potentiometric titrator, and starting titration. The method is advantaged in that problems that reliability of the detection result is easily influenced by indicator end point judgment and subjective judgment of different analysts in the existing measurement, ferrousoxide is extremely easy to oxidize in the decomposition and titration processes, and the analysis result is relatively low can be avoided.