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Can you pass Life in the UK Test?

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jennymanara · 01/07/2019 09:25

Anyone applying for citizenship has to pass this test. It is based on things that people are supposed to know if they live in the UK. Can you pass it?

lifeintheuktestweb.co.uk/tests/

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mindutopia · 01/07/2019 09:28

I did have to pass it, when I settled in the UK.

Some of it is tricky (historical facts). A lot of it is really inane basic information. One of my questions was about what a tv license was for. Another was about day is often celebrated with pranks on the 1st of April. Hmm

I can see if someone had SEN and struggled to revise and remember facts. But the test itself on the day was actually ridiculously easy. As long as you were literate, you pretty much would have passed. That said, my dh didn't know the answers to a lot of the history questions.

SprogletsMum · 01/07/2019 09:29

No I failed and I've been here since birth.

LIttleMissTickles · 01/07/2019 09:34

I failed, quite embarrassed now.

newnamewhosthis · 01/07/2019 09:34

I failed and have lived here since birth

IAmRubbishAtDIY · 01/07/2019 09:36

Failed test 1, 16/24.

SwishSwishSheesh · 01/07/2019 09:40

I had to take it for naturalisation, it was piss easy. If I remember correctly I got one wrong.

BarbaraofSevillle · 01/07/2019 09:41

Yes, I got 79%, don't know what the pass mark was. Fell down on the historical stuff as didn't know which years and monarchs when and who type things in the 1600s ish.

Some were educated guesses, other pretty obvious stuff.

BarbaraofSevillle · 01/07/2019 09:43

I think I got 19, which must mean the pass mark is 17 or 18 IAm

SickOfBeingFat · 01/07/2019 09:45

I got 91% so passed but still slipped up on a couple

jennymanara · 01/07/2019 09:50

I passed but a few I had no idea of, such as in which decade was British Film Studios at their heyday.

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Tawdrylocalbrouhaha · 01/07/2019 09:53

I passed it! I got lots wrong mind, and some of the questions are very random.

There's a book which gives all the information being tested. I haven't read it, but a Romanian friend showed me - you just read and regurgitate.

tinkywinkyshandbag · 01/07/2019 09:53

I think the history questions are hard but if you did a bit of preparation you could learn what you needed to know.

marvellousnightforamooncup · 01/07/2019 09:54

Failed. Why do you need to know when the English Channel was formed FFS?

MaudeLynne · 01/07/2019 09:55

83.33% and passed, although a couple were educated guesses about Kings etc.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 01/07/2019 09:58

18/24 and passed.
I have friends having to do it at the moment (EU citizens married to British citizens and their children being British). They find the history stuff particularly pointless.

MaudeLynne · 01/07/2019 10:01

I did another and passed again - passed test 2 & 30 - is the first test more difficult to make you try again?

I answered my own question - and failed test 1!!

proudestofmums · 01/07/2019 10:03

An immigration judge and a Home Office Presenting OFficer (who,present HO’s case at appeals) once did the test together and both failed.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 01/07/2019 10:03

Failed test 2- 14/24.

fraxion · 01/07/2019 10:05

Failed, oh dear should I pack my bags?

usernameuser · 01/07/2019 10:06

Oh dear I failed, better pack my bags.......

SegregateMumBev · 01/07/2019 10:07

Goodness some of the wording and grammar in the questions is appalling!

"What British scientist showed who gravity applied to the whole universe"

BillywilliamV · 01/07/2019 10:09

I failed, why is it necessary to know when the Wars of the Roses started?
This is an exam written by a middle classed white male who went to a public school. Obviously Britain would best be inhabited only by them, ideally!

Sugaronjam · 01/07/2019 10:09

I failed 11/24

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 01/07/2019 10:16

Failed and born and bred in this country . A few I got wrong as I was umming and arring I got 50% 12/24 . Test 1

LittleLongDog · 01/07/2019 10:17

I passed: 18/24

But I did guess some!