Citizenship test - are you in or out?

[Huguenot]

With a pathetic 14 out of 24, there seems to be good reason why I've been exiled to Singapore.

Take the test, and see if you'll be obliged to join me shortly. I'll tidy the spare room. ;-)

Nette, there aren't any picture questions, so you may struggle. Try to look at the shape of the letters, and see if you can remember them from the pictures on the walls?

[HAL9000]

You scored 16 out of a possible 24

You have failed, the pass mark was 75% According to the Life in the UK Test, you have insufficient knowledge of the English language or of life in the UK to remain.

[LadyDeliah]

I got 16 out of 24 too. Some of those questions are pretty obscure!

[taper]

17. I don't believe this is the test. I'm very English and well clever.

[Huguenot]

It's the real thing.

All the answers are in 'Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship' Handbook.

So I guess to pass, you need to memorise it.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I scored a rubbish 17.

I want a steward's on Q.20 - what about the Domesday Book?

[Annette Curtain]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Nette, there aren't any picture questions, so you

> may struggle.

Try to look at the shape of the

> letters, and see if you can remember them from the

> pictures on the walls?

Barbara Cartland ? http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/12/8/1260271824027/Boris-Johnson-addresses-i-002.jpg Adolph Hitler ?

Can I come in now.

NETTE:-S

[silverfox]

17 - failed. The book must be wrong.

[Pickle]

I had to sit this a few years ago, it is indeed an exercise in memorising random facts and figures that you'll never need again. However on the day I sat it only me and 3 others out of the 20 or so that sat it passed, so obviously you need a degree of competence to have realised that you need to read the book and memorise it!

I just did the test and got 15, which goes to show none of what I "learned" has stuck :)

[Huguenot]

Where are you originally from Pickle?

[LadyDeliah]

Being in the business of immigration (ducks from flying eggs and rotten tomatoes), I can vouch that these are the kind of stupid questions anyone wanting to settle in the UK or naturalise as British, has to answer.

[Jeremy]

Erm... 12!

I actually have nothing against a written test regarding the laws and way of life in the UK. And it also tests for a reasonable grasp of English, which is a good thing.

The problem is that the questions are plainly ridiculous, and rely on memorisation of irrelevant facts from study books.

[DaveR]

19. But a few of those were lucky guesses.

[Pickle]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Where are you originally from Pickle?

New Zealand - I moved to the UK in 2001.

[DJKillaQueen]

I got 17 too and some were definitely lucky guesses. My question is why would any immigrant need to know some of this stuff anyway!

[peterstorm1985]

15, and 50% of those were guesses.

Some of the 'correct' answers are ridiculous; I've been switching the lights off and hiding behind the sofa every Halloween since this American style of celebrating a pagan festival has become prevalent, and it's worked every time. Apparently I'm supposed to give them sweets and chocolate. Pah!

[Townleygreen]

15. Terrible in one sense, but so many of the questions are nit-picking nonsense.

[nashoi]

17. I hope that's a big spare room.

[Horsebox]

I scored 11! Pathetic.

But a good way to keep Johnny Foreigner from our shores, jobs and women.

[Otta]

Thank God someone else scored 11!

And even for my 11 I was guessing most of them.

A friend of mine's wife has to do this test at some stage, and was saying how insane the book was. I hadn't realised it was this insane!

[ClareC]

13....... Needs to ba a huge spare room!

[Horsebox]

Otta, there was a fair bit of guesswork involved in my 11 too... Will we be deported?

[ratty]

12 tee hee!

[Otta]

Will we be deported?

I think I could live with that, if it was somewhere nice. They could start shipping people over to Australia again!

[Rolo Tomasi]

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