UK Citizenship test

http://www.ukcitizenshiptest.co.uk/

Failed - 50%

67% - Fail

I passed this a few years ago (23/24) when I had to take it for real but failed this time around (17/24).

There are a lot of problems with it, starting with the fact that you can't actually take the test until you've been in the UK for at least two years (for most people it's longer), yet they ask questions aimed at new arrivals (e.g. how to open a bank account, how to apply for jobs).

It's ridiculous that there are questions about schooling when not everyone has kids, or that there are completely irrelevant facts like 'how many people in the UK are under the age of 19' (1. Who cares, and 2. The data is based on 2001 figures and therefore outdated anyway).

I think the Home Office was supposed to introduce a new version of the test this year, not sure what happened to that... or if it'll be an improvement...

54%

obviously this is all bollocks

67% - Fail

Ditto, more than I thought I'd got mind you

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You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 13 out of 24 (54%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 54 seconds

Yeah, I got 54% as well. I assume we're all a bit shaky on divorce law history and the like?

i assume if you need to take the test they go over this stuff in class

They make you buy a book that tells you about Santa Claus and how trick-or-treating works.

does it have the population stats and years of the divorce law and stuff?

Yeah, all the answers are in a book iirc. It's a language / memory test as much as anything else.

Iirc they are also planning to separately test that you can speak enough English to follow a degree course in the future.

iirc the divorce law stuff is incorporated into a section about women's rights (one of the Qs you can get on the test is something like 'in the UK it is legal to discriminate against someone based on their gender: true or false' -- no joke)

Failed - Test told me to "GTFO" at the end

33%

38% - FAILED

If only the test had been about REAL ENGLAND, I would've sailed through it.

58%

58% - failed ...

what score do you have to get to get a pass ?

38% lots of nonsense questions that are irrelevant imo.

Yeah I felt like the question about David Beckham's penis was a bit much

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 15 out of 24 (63%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 46 seconds

Some of the choices are ridiculously close to each other though, are there 19 million / 20 million people etc under 19 in the UK or whatever it was. Who gives a flying one? In fact, a test on British idiomatic expressions like "who gives a flying one" would be more useful for making immigrants fully rounded members of British society.

Questions answered correctly: 15 out of 24 (63%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 51 seconds

See you all in Yarl's Wood.

why do you need to know the exact % of UKers that self-identify as Muslim to become a citizen?

So you can more fully participate in the incipient Islamification of Britain

54% - FAIL

who on ILX would threaten 100% most ardently

(probably dommy p rest his soul)

le bateau ivre otm

Which one of the following photographs depicts Real England:

a) http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2009/10/5/1254777211729/Eton-College-001.jpg
b) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3336/3438220353_b9dfac3b5f.jpg
c) http://static-l3.blogcritics.org/11/03/07/154545/tv-midsomer-murders-928447688.jpg

oh they all do

etonian publicschool chic has transcended frivolity and is now a very real form of english retardation

To my shame I scored enough to get US citizenship but not British (54%). Good Luck USA.

if we are to define realness as a sort of nationalised self-limitation ritual xp to oneself

Failed 46%, which was way better than I thought cos i educated-guess at least 80% of these questions.

96 per cent (mainly because it's multiple guess and I remembered some of the questions from the other practice one I took a few months back). Hate it when I miss a question. Off to take the USA test...

suzy you are like yoda!

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50%!

i assume this means i will only get to stay on some of the outlying island dependencies

weird that this test didn't ask about how a bill becomes a law, or about yr national myths about the queen or whatever, battle of hastings, that kind of useful information for a citizen

Android users are not welcome in the UK?

Proudly refused to take the fucking thing, sang four green fields to an onlooking sheep instead, wept for wolf tone.

50%, i'm satisfied

Proudly refused to take the fucking thing, sang four green fields to an onlooking sheep instead, wept for wolf tone.

Oh come come, the UK is full of Union Jack waving Irishman