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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 and since when did anyone have to pay prescription charges (OK, OK I know we used to - reckon the test is a little outdated) 🙄 .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.....
I think she'd fail.
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
Erm, having done this for real some time ago I managed nearly 100% on the day. Study paid off.
Just now with the sample test, I managed a woeful 54%. Many of the questions in the sample test are really specific (like exact dates) and wholly unlike the actual thing. After the real thing I felt a bit silly that I'd made such an effort to cram beforehand.
46% FAIL.
Seems like most of us fail.
Or maybe it's the government that has had a epic fail?
50% for me, lets hope we can choose somewhere nice to leave and set up in... my vote is for canada.
[url= http://books.google.com/books?id=2u8rD6F-yg0C&dq=uk+citizenship+test+booklet&client=safari&source=gbs_navlinks_s ]You can read much of the 'Life in the UK' booklet online[/url]. After a quick skim it looks like a useful thing for many people to read.
58%
so I must be a good guesser!
67% so I failed 😯