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/

The questions are absurd some of them .

I passed with 20/24

failed miserably - 11/24 on test 20 & i'd guessed a fair amount of correct ones

test 1 was a little better with 71% correct 17/24

Do you need 100% to pass?

Weird questions. What date is Halloween? Well, obviously I know that but wtf does an American fad have to do with the UK?

Failed test 1 - 16 / 24

What a random random selection of questions

79%. Some of the questions are ridiculous. Why do I need to know who won rowing competitions?

I failed with 17/24. Born in England, raised in Scotland.

Oh and the "free tuition fees" is a sneaky question. Scotland does offer that.

Failed! 15/24

Failed with 16/24 too. Why so many history and sport questions?!

I failed test 4

Just failed 2 and 3 as well 😂😂

I passed in 2015 having lived here for nearly 30 years I did memorise all the historical facts, kings & queens. I remember one Q about Wordsworth I would not have been able to answer had I not studied for the test, and one about the Scottish legal system and courts which I probably got wrong... One about school governors which I was able to answer as my kids went to primary school. When you do the test for real you don't get a score, just a pass/fail. I'd probably fail now if I had to retake it without revising again

I have done a few of the tests and it has made me realise how little I know about the different courts in England and Wales. I probably should know this. Will do a bit of reading up. I probably did learn about it at school, but I have never had anything to do with the courts as an adult.

I know it's fashionable to make a big fuss about how difficult/stupid/pointless it is, but I can't really see an issue with it.

Failed again - Test 1 (Test 40 first time). I'm obviously not fit to live in the UK .

Did tests 1,10 and 40 and failed them all, about half right. An awful lot about history though and dates, which I've long since forgotten from history lesson 20 odd years ago, and that's if I ever knew. Some of them seem ridiculous really, I mean who needs to know how many millions of years ago England separated from Europe to form the channel? How is that relevant to anything? I get the point of some of them about law or government or dates of popular celebrations but some seem written by a history buff!

@rubbertreeplant It is about why they need to know certain things?

There are good questions such as - where do you go to tax your car - DVLA, or about it being illegal to force someone to marry, or about how you need a TV licence and can be fined for not having one. These are legal things that people living here do need to know. But they do not need to know the exact date of the Bill of Rights for example.

Yep, passed, no worries.

I passed it last year when we prepared for naturalisation. Most of my UK friends found it quite tricky.

I think some are hilarious like "What is the national dish of England". In case you never knew, it is Roast Beef.

I also think there is a lot focused on non-Christians based on the questions about Easter and Christmas, nothing really difficult for someone coming form a EU country or similar background.

The history ones I didn't mind but that's something I am interested in. DH def. struggled with some and he has an interest as well but not necessarily which battle was in what exact year.

Some questions are actually only possible to pass when giving an incorrect answer. One was "What is the capital of England", they expected as the correct answer "London" but England has legally no capital.

Passed, my husband had to sit this.

@reluctantbrit Yes I noticed a question about scottish banknotes you can only pass if you answer incorrectly. The official answer is that they are legal tender and accepted everywhere in Britain. In reality they are not legal tender outside of Scotland and are only accepted by custom. Shops can legally refuse to take them.

18/24 so I passed but I definitely guessed some

God what a load of boring shite. When was the National Trust founded? Who cares? Honestly how embarrassing. Why not ask relevant questions instead of setting some boring pub quiz.

I passed (19), as I also did recently when my colleagues said it wasn't possible to know all that and tested me on it one lunch time. I'm a useful person in pub quizzes.

However, while I think people should be aware the Bronze Age was a few thousand years ago, I don't think it matters if you think it was 4000 or 5000. I think questions like that shouldn't be "give an exact date for this thing we only have vague dates for anyway", but to match certain events with particular centuries or reigns, or to take some eras (e.g. Bronze Age, Victorian, Regency, Edwardian, Tudor, Vikings) and put them in date order.

I think the questions about things like the DVLA and court system and electoral processes are more important.

21/24

Apparently my knowledge of the Scottish legal system (I have literally never been to Scotland) and the Mercury music prize are insufficient