Can you pass Life in the UK Test?

[jennymanara]

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/

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.

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.

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

I failed, quite embarrassed now.

I failed and have lived here since birth

Failed test 1, 16/24.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!!

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

Failed test 2- 14/24.

Failed, oh dear should I pack my bags?

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

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

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

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!

I failed 11/24

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

I passed: 18/24

But I did guess some!