UK Citizenship test
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Being born in britain and as old as the wind i scored 46 % in 5 minuits.With any luck they wont let me back in :)
EdgeofDawn
Jedi
I got 10 out of 24. I'm American and guessed on every question.
Zadius Sky
The Living Force
As an American, I've achieved 5 out of 24.
I guess I can rule out UK as a place to move to.
I guess I can rule out UK as a place to move to.
clerck de bonk
Dagobah Resident
13/24 and have never been to england ööh great britain.... the commonwealth, no, no United Kingdom!
So it seems you will get about half if you are only guessing ;D
So it seems you will get about half if you are only guessing ;D
Cathryn
The Force is Strong With This One
I failed miserably 15/24
Can't stop laughing
eegads! For a British born citizen of 60 that's the best laugh I've had since Trevor the sheep.
Must have been a quango that designed that q'aire.
I wonder where they'll send me when they catch up with me
Thanks Alphonse for posting that it says it all.
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Can't stop laughingeegads! For a British born citizen of 60 that's the best laugh I've had since Trevor the sheep.
Must have been a quango that designed that q'aire.
I wonder where they'll send me when they catch up with me
Thanks Alphonse for posting that it says it all.
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Hildegarda
Guest
got 63% -- all best guesses and common sense :)
Well, they clearly fall into either of three categories: 1) how the government and the governing works, 2) basic history of the country, and 3) basic life navigation: health care, education, available social support, etc.
They are trying to see that a person is ready and willing to assimilate and has a sense of pride in his\her new country. And the applicant has to show it by learning the language well enough and making an effort to memorize answers to this questions, provided in advance.
It's a sort of a ritual.
it is actually. It ties straight into suffrage movement, which originated in Britain, and women's rights, including rights to equal dissolution of marriage and the right to own and manage property.
That's a sort of a "basic history" question, same as a slavery question would be for the US citizenship test.
Well, they clearly fall into either of three categories: 1) how the government and the governing works, 2) basic history of the country, and 3) basic life navigation: health care, education, available social support, etc.
They are trying to see that a person is ready and willing to assimilate and has a sense of pride in his\her new country. And the applicant has to show it by learning the language well enough and making an effort to memorize answers to this questions, provided in advance.
It's a sort of a ritual.
Peam said:WOW, It's sooo important to know when women were able to divorce their husbands if you want citizenship ain't it.
it is actually. It ties straight into suffrage movement, which originated in Britain, and women's rights, including rights to equal dissolution of marriage and the right to own and manage property.
That's a sort of a "basic history" question, same as a slavery question would be for the US citizenship test.
alphonse
Jedi Master
Hildegarda that's a great score. None of my work colleagues got that high, and we are a mixture of longstanding UK citizens and people relatively new to the UK, mostly very well formally educated and a few with Phd's
It is not the categories that you correctly identify that are a problem, they summarise well the things that it would be normal to have an understanding of to live and integrate in to a new country.
But it's the level of questions within those categories that surprised me, and again, it is not the "guessable" questions that even non UK residence could get right, because, as you say they are basic common sense.
The obscure questions however. IMO are not answerable without very specific knowledge and I wonder if they are placed among the more obvious questions to encourage failure by stealth.
IMO it is far more important to know if a person will be tortured or executed if returned to the country they are seeking refuge from rather than to know what year women were allowed to divorce their husbands in century before last, or the more obscure names that the Church England can be referred to when "Church of England" seems to sum it up rather succinctly
Peam
Jedi Council Member
Hildegarda said:
I didn’t know the answers were provided in advance on the official questionnaire. That would make it a lot easier. I’m not sure how memorizing the answers would reflect their pride in their new country though.
Hildegarda said:Peam said:WOW, It's sooo important to know when women were able to divorce their husbands if you want citizenship ain't it.
it is actually. It ties straight into suffrage movement, which originated in Britain, and women's rights, including rights to equal dissolution of marriage and the right to own and manage property.
I agree it would be better to know those things, but they could learn all about that if they wanted to after they’ve been given citizenship, when they have more time to study.
Also, by being given the answer to memorize, they would still know absolutely nothing about the suffrage movement.
But yeah, it might spark their curiosity to look into it though.
My lack of basic history is telling.
Nook
Dagobah Resident
Oh, Bloody Hell.
I was thinking if I should reply because everybody kept saying "Oh, I failed miserably with 14/24" etc.
Well, I got 7. Yes, 7. I don't even know what to say. Although I'm Hungarian living in the States and I've never even been to the UK or haven't really been interested in, I thought I'd do (a lot) better.At least 40%. Still, I just did it for fun, to see how I would do if I took the test.
Better luck next time. And thanks for posting the link! Interesting test indeed. So long, mates ;D
And thanks for all the fish
I was thinking if I should reply because everybody kept saying "Oh, I failed miserably with 14/24" etc.
Well, I got 7. Yes, 7. I don't even know what to say. Although I'm Hungarian living in the States and I've never even been to the UK or haven't really been interested in, I thought I'd do (a lot) better.At least 40%. Still, I just did it for fun, to see how I would do if I took the test.
Better luck next time. And thanks for posting the link! Interesting test indeed. So long, mates ;D
And thanks for all the fish
