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Just failed test 15 :). My wife , a kiwi, had to do this about 15 years ago and it was way easier than that . The questions were pretty similar but you could manage it mostly from the fact the wrong options were absurd which didn’t seem to be the case on that one .
we both thought that rather than knowing what decade punch magazine was published in some kind of help with or test of spoken English would be more of a help to people looking to settle .
I did a Welsh nationality test the other day and failed. Trouble is it was linked to by a Dutch friend who lives over the border. She passed!
Apparently supermarkets have been ripping me off for years by applying vat to goods.
It's just a crappy website. probably set up by an Indian student or a 10 year old, reading facts from a book without understanding them.
As TJ notes, the christianty question is bollocks
It's not bollox as such, it's not the answer on the book.
My wife did this a couple of years ago. It was a real ordeal – you get a book to revise for it which basically details whatever the government of the day thinks you should think about the UK. Which is why some of the answers are wrong – if the Conservative government wants you to think something specific, that’s the answer, not the real answer.
First question: Which word comes from Viking – Arm, Leg, Cow, S****horpe? Actual WTF!
Viking is a job description, not a language... Cow is proto-germanic anyway so both old Norse and Angles and interestingly the creation myth starts with a cow... but refer back to answer #1... what's the book say... I'm guessing it say's thorpe is a town so that's the answer they want
Test 15: 13/24 (and some of them were lucky guesses).
Either the tax question is wrong or VAT isn't what I thought it was.
On the upside, it looks like Trumpland will take me. Here's the US version:
https://my.uscis.gov/en/prep/test/civics/view
Failed.
Germany please for me. I'll have the bags packed by Monday.
Ten correct! Some odd questions- The Pale, seems like a fairly odd area to question on.
But 85% on the American test 🙂
LOL.. failed test 15 miserably, ironically 15/24
It’s just a crappy website. probably set up by an Indian student or a 10 year old, reading facts from a book without understanding them.
They're all real questions from the test!
Denmark got similar test, and similar stupid.
They even had some correct answers which was clearly wrong some years ago.
Test 15, got 16/24, actually knew most of the answers to the ones I got right but cocked up by second guessing on a few I got wrong.
OK, can I choose where I get deported to? Either Canada or New Zealand will be fine by me 🙂
Failed, good thing I don't live there anymore.
12/24 only 48% allowed to be here😉
Did test #15 and got 15/24. Basically got all the history ones wrong, then again just why do I need to know when Britain recognised the nascent USA or when Punch was first published?
Where do I want to be sent? Scandinavia would be my first choice but anywhere, just anywhere!!!!!
Test 15 I got stopped on the 10th question. How you can buy stuff in supermarkets without paying tax I have no idea, or does no-one drink beer? And as for the English occupying Pale in 1200 I thought the English were French of viking descent at that time and the people who invaded Pale were Scots (edit: apparenjtly not, that was a bit later and further north).
The questions should be relevant to living in today’s glorious Britain!
1: How many cars can you fit in to a square metre if you really wedge them in?
2: What is the average number of betting shops on any given town centre high street?
3: Jam or cream first on a scone?
4: Is a stew with a lid a pie?
5: How many years until the NHS is gone?
Failed test 15..this despite having a history degree from one of the UK's best universities
Clearly they didn't cover 'when was punch first released in the curriculum' however.
Also, as others have said the tax question is clearly wrong.
They’re all real questions from the test!
I suspect that they are just made up bollox.
Test 15, 10/24. Those questions where ridiculous!!
14/24 - at least Scotland will be deporting itself soon!
LOL! After getting 7 out of the first 8 correct, I then only managed 12/24.
That was for test=15
Let me try again....hmmm, 22/24 on the next one.
Should I stay or should I go now.....?
Apparently VAT at the supermarkets is cancelled. Bonus. I’ll demand a 20% discount next time I’m there then.
The tax and NI questions were unquestionably wrong.
I answered just 13 correctly.
Should I stay or should I go now…..?
If I go there will be trouble....and if I stay it will be double.
I've got to leave the UK as well, for the slightly more sinister reason that the Home Office is recruiting on Civil Service Jobs for people to work in the deportation team to beef up to check the EU citizens ahead of Dec 31st.
Unfortunately, the salary for this delightful role is below the minimum you need to be allowed into the UK 🤔
If you get stopped and have another go the questions come up in a different order. 12/24 second time around on test 15 cheating on the questions I'd learned first time. 🙁
I’ve got to leave the UK as well, for the slightly more sinister reason that the Home Office is recruiting on Civil Service Jobs for people to work in the deportation team to beef up to check the EU citizens ahead of Dec 31st.
Unfortunately, the salary for this delightful role is below the minimum you need to be allowed into the UK
Free uniform of brown shirts though.
How you can buy stuff in supermarkets without paying tax I have no idea
No VAT on some food innit.
Tax on some pensions too.
Looks like that’s me leaving the country then.
Me too. 18/24. Is it wrong that I'm not that bothered? A few years ago I would've classed myself as patriotic and somewhat...not proud, that's the wrong word, but unashamedly British.
Now, if I were asked to leave, I'm not sure I'd be that fussed. I think my Patriotism has been quashed by other people's Nationalism.
3: Jam or cream first on a scone?
That's a trick question, you should blend them both together then spread on at he same time.(One for Curious Cases listeners there).
The real question should be
3. Is Scone pronounced like 'Gone' or 'Stone'?
12/24.
New Zealand or Canada, please.
Just passed test 15, I WILL be king ...it's only a matter of time
Well I got 12/24 - can I go to Canada please?
18/24 think I’ll move to Spain.
Tried for a total fail - and failed. 1/24 should have been 0/24 and free one way ticket to France.
22/24. Although a couple of those were educated guesses. But your score coming into it cold is irrelevant. The intention is to take the test after a period of study, something to show at least a bit of commitment to your new country. I'm sure plenty of other countries have similar tests.
I found the study guide linked to on page one is interesting, if I was looking to settle in the UK it wouldn't be a chore to read through it.
50% - oops.
Could I go back to Thailand please? I liked living there.
12/24; I’m outta here! (If only😏)
****ing insular inward looking little Britain with the loonies in charge of the asylum. I genuinely worry for my kids.
Ahh, yeah retook test 15 and got 11/24 😂
See you all in Belgium
The intention is to take the test after a period of study, something to show at least a bit of commitment to your new country.
No it isn't. Or at least it's not supposed to be. The reason is to show that "a person has sufficient knowledge about life in the United Kingdom for the purpose of an application for naturalisation", i.e. to show that you know what you're signing up for. [Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act]
11/24 and half of the correct answers were guesses. I'll move too Hawaii, that's still part of the Empire isn't it?
No it isn’t. Or at least it’s not supposed to be
??? Of course it's indended to be taken after some study.
- Life in the United Kingdom: A guide for new residenst" contains all the information that you need to pass the official life in the UK test. You must read and understand the contents of this book in order to prepare for the test.
Studying for the test will both show commitment and educate a person about the UK. I doubt many taking the test resent doing so and would have pride in completing it successfully.
show commitment and educate a person about the UK
Britain needs nurses, if they are committed to their job that's surely commitment enough, and believe me they will soon learn all they need to know about the UK. When I went to work in Spain what I knew about the place wouln't have covered two sides of A4. That didn't stop me contributing to the economy, quickly learning to fit it and learn enough Catalan/Castillano to get by. I picked up things about the country and have done ever since, just learning as I went along. If you need a work permit (which you did then) - you work out how to do it, you need somewhere to live - you work out how to do it, you need a bank account - you work out how to do. Knowing in which places el Cid fought with or against the Maures and where he is buried, or where Napolean's army got ambushed (I've walked to both of them) makes no differnce to anyone in Spain as I walk along a Spanish street.