[Closed] UK Citizenship test - how do you get on?

67%. Fail.

good job i have a passport eh...

67% here still a fail though, alot more difficult than i thought it would be certainly glad i dont have to take it for real lol

Fail 64%

does that mean I have to go to France?

Failed, seemed to me that there were lots of "benefit/entitlement" questions. No good for me I was never entitled/claimed for anything.

67% and fail.
Will have to take it one day, and pay through the nose for the privilege. What does answering 24 multichoice questions test anyway?

63% bunch of bollox.

i got 54%, please someone deport me now... may be to canada where the best MTBing is 🙂

63%. Luckily for me I live in france.

Another 67%.

Disappointing lack of meaningful questions: "When are trails cheeky?" "What threat might redsocks pose on a technical descent?"

I mean, what actual useful stuff are they teaching our new friends and neighbours?

54% FAIL.
I might have a hunt for an online one for [s]the motherland[/s] France and see if I do any worse there!

38% (fail). What a load of tripe! 🙄 If these are the things you need to know about the UK, then I'm glad I'm living in Germany. I'll not give up my UK passport though. 😈

71% and still a fail. Does this mean we'll all be shipped off to the gulags? Who will be left to keep the trails open?

Question 24 was a tricky one , "What tyres for riding undetected throught the channel tunnel ?"

I failed! When do I leave? Will they pay for my flights out? 🙄

Got to say that is a stunningly bad test, knowing the hours a 13-16 year old can work in a school week is certainly going to stump any would be terrorists from gaining access to the UK.....not.

46% what did most of that bollocks have anything to do with being a UK citizen?

54% fail. I wonder what percentage of the current uk population could actually pass this test?

63% Fail

I live in France, does this mean I wont be let back in?

How does knowing this sort of rubbish set you out as being a suitable British citizen?

58%...!

63%, fail!

Pretty shocked, actually - where were the questions like, "Is it acceptable to serve Yorkshire Puddings with roast chicken?"

54% Fail.... mmmmm

42%... when do I leave.

And can I chose where they send me????

63% FAIL, and I guessed randomly on loads...

Grumm, I can't imagine there are that many UK citizens who can pass that. I thought it was interesting what sort of things they decided was relevant for an emigrating person to know. Nothing about our culture or habits, about our norms of behaviour. I was hoping for questions like:

"Which is correct: colour or color?"

54% I have very little idea about religion or politics as neither I have any interest in. Seemed to be a lot of questions around these so that was me stumped. And what has how days schools stay open got to do with me wanting to be a resident of a country?

what a truly eclectic mix of questions with little relevance to life in this country......I wonder if it is designed to be difficult to pass?
48% in 3 mins mind
School days no ides but I could work out 38x5 - as they close on BH + elections I am still not sure what the real answer is.

54%

Colleague at work has an american wife who had to take the test and he showed me the book. Some of it is quite interesting but as said above, it focuses on some specific areas and then it's pretty easy to spot the questions after that. The immigration one being an example.

It doesn't really measure whether you're a good citizen or not (since I consider I am yet - speak the language, understand the culture, never been in trouble with the law, pay my taxes, etc. - but failed the test. But in it's defence, it does make potential immigrants learn a bit about the country and the culture as well as knowing what ACAS does!

58% and not entirely sure how much of that makes me a poor UK citizen. When did women get the right to divorce there husbands? An important date to be sure but do you really need to know that to live here today?
Fortunately the wife failed as well so we can be deported together, she will not need to divorce me 🙂

33% FAIL!

63% fail

75% in 2 mins 40 secs.

Passed.

...and I have a foreign birth certificate.

33% thank **** i live in Norway

haha, 29% ...

50something% fail. I was disappointed that there wasn't a 'waste of public money' option as an answer to the 'what is a quango?' question!

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 14 out of 24 (58%)

Time taken: 04 minutes 24 seconds

Oh dear, can I be repatriated to somewhere nice and warm with great hills and open minded women ?

So, much like the government favoured SATS, you're expected to revise for the test from a set text.

How is that supposed to make a distinction between those who wish to become integrated citizens and those who just want the passport?

Since STW forumites, dare I say it, represent a fairly rounded group with above average intellect (with a few notable exceptions 🙂 ) its extraordinary that genuine UK citizens find the test so difficult or not even relevant to citizenship.

I wonder how much that lot cost? 😉

58%

54% I'll get my coat.

Thorougly disappointed with the test though, anyone who's prepared to learn a load of facts and figues is in regardless of whether they understand the culture. 🙄

42 % fail..Load of old tosh..

And looking throught the posts it looks like only one of us will be left behind to turn out the lights!

38% here! Doh!

Mrs soops got 50%.
Is it time to leave!

54%.

Although either my local hospital or the questionaire has it wrong!

You can attend a hospital without a GP's letter only in the case of an emergency True/False

They say true, but when living up in Fife I wasn't registered with a local GP and used A+E twice, fractured kneecap and infected wound, neither an emergancy as I had left them both for over a week before I went to get them looked at to see if they would go away on their own...

67% for not actually caring how many people under the age of 19 are in the UK.. Seriously, will that actually affect my day to day functioning as a citizen? Will I not be able to do my job if I don't know if it's the "Council of Europe" or the "Council of the European Union"??

I did learn something though: Why do Irish people get a vote here? My English parents don't get a vote there, even though they've lived there for 9 years.. WTF???

Why do Irish people get a vote here?

Postcolonial guilt ?

58% for me, obviously we should read and memorise the book, which no doubt has all the answers...

One of my ex-staff members (US) became a UK citizen a few years ago, on a business trip I quizzed him from the book. There were a number of questions I got wrong - including the hospital one, as in my 'English' mind anyone can go to a hospital - as the question is badly written.

Also there was also one on immigration - groups who came to the UK in the 1900's - and the answer included 'Poland' - but that didn't exist as a country in modern times until 1919 - so I got that wrong too...

67% -Fail!

As somebody who is well-educated, well-read, keeps abreast of current affairs and has managed to survive in the UK for 30-odd years, I'm disappointed....

.....in the poor quality of that test.

Does this suggest that a large majority of UK subjects are considered unsuitable to be so???

I wonder whether France or Canada will take me as an asylum seeker from a regime that doesn't want me?

46%, pointless, irrelevant, crap TBH

61% Fail!

I choose....... France. when can I go?

67%

Irish get the vote because their grandparents/great-grandparents were British citizens before partition I'd guess. Think I could probably vote down there if I wanted to. Don't know how it would work with people who've immigrated to Ireland then choose to live in England tho...

1st post btw

Another 54% failure.

Several badly written/phrased questions in there too (e.g. Which of the following TWO... instead of Which TWO of the following). I'm sure if I spent sufficient time with the book I could get 100% but in that case what's the point?

Also, the hospital attendance question is 100% factually wrong. I work in a hospital, and lots of our clinics accept self referrals. Yes, the norm is that for secondary care treatment you need a primary care referral, but without any qualification in the question the correct answer is definitely FALSE.

71% FAIL!!!

Is that a knock at the front door? Back in a mo...

While I'm at it, the census question is bollocks too. Correct answer "Information in the census is kept secret for 100 years" - well personally identifiable information is, but if you kept the whole lot in a filing cabinet for a century there wouldn't be much point in the ONS doing it would there?

67% despite some lucky guesses 🙂

I think, though, that this slightly misses the point- the idea isn't to find out if you know enough about the UK to live here, the idea is to find out if you've thoroughly read and understood the citizenship guidebook thing. Though obviously that'd penalise potential citizens with bad memories...

50% . . . and since when did anyone have to pay prescription charges (OK, OK I know we used to - reckon the test is a little outdated) 🙄 .

Has anyone checked if this site is even a little bit genuine?

No one here has passed the test. To pass this test you would really have to study the book on being British, actually being British is not enough.

Reminds me of a story about a Cornish village that had quite a few 'incomers' from London. The incomers started reviving the traditions and eventually it was decided the locals would have to leave as they didn't really know how to be Cornish.

Some of the questions have different answers depending on where in the UK you live.

Hey!

I passed it, so perhaps you could all form an orderly queue at the coast.

I'm prepared to let a few slowish riders stay, and I'll be setting up a small examination room to assess the suitability of any ladies, so best undies on please...

42% woop australia here i come! this test has no relevance to life in britain i'm astonished that the goverment is so shite at its job, NOT!

75%; seems I'm British.

What a waste of taxpayer's money.

58%.

I've always had the feeling I didn't really belong here... 😀

woo, 63%, better than I thought I'd do 🙂

Some of the questions have different answers depending on where in the UK you live.

True. Maybe the people who set the questions didn't know that ?

Maybe the people who set the questions are illegal immigrants working for the Home Office ?

💡

I think I'd fail at any bit requiring allegiance to anyone called Queen Elizabeth the Second.

.....called Queen Elizabeth the Second

I think you'll find that correct name for the woman aka Queen Elizabeth the Second,
is Mrs. E. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

I reckon we should have a "citizenship" check on her.....

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EDIT : or "Mrs. E. Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg" ......if she had taken her husband's name.

38%. Can someone recommend me a country to be deported to?

50% and then a much improved 58% on my second try.

will i be allowed to visit next month? will my passport be re-newed in march?

29% 😥 il just leave...

48% - Off to sunnier climbs (and descents) 😀

Fail 42% ....white middle aged brummy , i was doomed from the start 🙄

63% Fail.

There didn't seem to be a question on whether pipe bands were inclusive and an aid to social cohesion.

white middle aged brummy , i was doomed from the start

😕

50% which is pretty good because all but 3 were a guess.

None of it seemed to have any relevance on anything.

54%

and what is this meant to prove?

54%, here , not botherd as i bought a visa from ebay.when that runs out , im just gonna disapeare.

So that's one person out of the first 60 odd has passed and they have a foreign birth certificate. Looks like a well constructed test then.

[i]You have failed the practice citizenship test.
Questions answered correctly: 9 out of 24 (38%)
Time taken: 05 minutes 34 seconds [/i]

54%, lucky I live in Spain then 🙂

I'll let you take one piece of hand luggage, but it's £3.00 a wee, £5.00 a poo and an extra £10 if you want air to breathe on your flights out 😀

ernie_lynch - Member
.....called Queen Elizabeth the Second
I think you'll find that correct name for the woman aka Queen Elizabeth the Second,
is Mrs. E. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

I reckon we should have a "citizenship" check on her.....

Otherwise she'd know she was Queen Elizabeth the First of Great Britain.

But she seems a decent old stick, so the English can have her 🙂

You have passed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 18 out of 24 (75%)

Time taken: 04 minutes 24 seconds

Does that mean I am now a citizen and no longer a subject?

58%. But then, I think most people would fail the driving theory test if they'd never read the highway code & done no revision on it. I imagine this is just a test to check that people have read the book carefully, which makes sense.

Some of it is pointless statistics, but a lot of things are things you just would know if you live here, like when to send your kids to school & when the school terms are, that you have to pay for uniform (the full information book surely includes an idea of when school terms are in addition to the total number of weeks), but it would be jolly useful to know to integrate here.

Similarly, the stuff about the EU is the sort of thing people here should know (though I'm guess most people in the UK don't - I only know about it thanks to being married to an EU law lecturer), because it does affect us all, and it would be useful to have an idea of what the heck it is, rather than the current completely uninformed debate where a lot of people are basically pro-Europe because they like French cheese and wine and foreign holidays and feel it is a nice shiny thing to be, or anti Europe because they are a bit racist and don't like funny foreign things.

The question about what to send in with a job, that's jolly useful in ensuring that anyone coming over here who wants to work is at least applying for jobs in the right way. It's an odd thing that you wouldn't think is different in other countries, but in many countries they do things in quite different ways.

And the thing about free prescriptions is surely a useful part of our health service - not knowing that when you're pregnant you can get free medicine could lead to people not getting medicine that they need, and ending up costing the NHS far more when it becomes an emergency. If you're coming from a country where they routinely charge for everything, the preventative medicine agenda over here may be alien to you (for example if you come from the USA, people there are very very wary of going to the doctors ever, as even with insurance it can cost you money. Or things like calling an ambulance - that can cost you $4000 before you even get to the hospital - even with insurance you have to hope they take you to a hospital covered by your plan or else you're screwed).

There are a few wacky things in there - like dates people were allowed to divorce. Dunno what they help, although I've not read the booklet.

Joe