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 actually know many people who have had an arranged marriage and none of them were coerced. So it might also depend on your cultural context. I actually have friends who dated through their 20s, then asked their parents to arrange marriages for them in their mid 30s- male and female. I have friends who have ‘arranged’ their own marriages btw. There are matrimonial websites for this stuff. They shortlisted the men and left it to their parents to vet the men. Had a few dates and decided to get married. It’s not for me at all and my parents would have said, ‘no sort your own life out’ had I even ventured such a suggestion but I think the practice may be more complex than it appears on the surface (esp in the 21st century).

I passed with 75% but was surprised at how much of it was history based 🤷🏼‍♀️

@RandomNameChange415 I agree that the copy is terrible. Very poor proof reading.

@potolbabu Glad that others have had a more positive experience. It may depend on the cultural background, and we may have experience of very different cultural backgrounds.

Also I thought there was an official book where you could do practice tests? I have a vague memory of donating such a book to Oxfam.
Found it:
www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1240167&TRACKID=004752
I am a nerd. I bought all four books. DH mocked me mercilessly.

Passed. I'll need to do this at some point. EU citizen, but lived here more than half my life... Have always refused to apply for citizenship, as used to see it as rich income stream for the government without making any difference to me.
But I can't vote, so that bloody showed me...

I have the book and some of the 'knowledge' in it is just... a paragraph about people in the UK sometimes going out for dinner to a restaurant, or perhaps having people over for dinner to their home. Is this seriously a thing unique to this country then???

I got 91% - two questions wrong. I didn't know you could play the National Lottery at 16, not 18 (and now I do know, I think it's a really bad idea!). The other was about one of Churchill's speeches - not a period of history I know very well.

Damn I failed. Does that mean I have to leave? I'll get my coat.

I passed it last year as I'm trying to get my shit together. Read the book and quite enjoyed the geography/history/legal stuff. The sports and entertainment questions gave me the rage. Utterly pointless,plus they were the ones I got wrong... a lot!

The wording on some of the questions is horrible. I passed 34 with 75%.

I got 22 out of 24 - pretty pleased! But I did do a history degree so would be embarrassing if I did poorly

Bye, I'm just packing my bags

I passed with 75%.

I'm British but not English and I did badly on the history questions (who was monarch when England and Wales united and which year did the war of the roses start). If was taking the test for real I'd brush up on English history!

Yep I failed too at 16/24 and have also lived here all my life. I guess if you revise you have a good chance of passing, but it can't be easy if your reading English isn't so strong.

A couple of questions had answers such as a. More than 2 million b. More than 3 million, c. More than 5 million which is silly because surely if I answer a and the correct answer is c I would still be right?

Agreed curlyrebel - I struggled with a question just like that - quite a few felt a real compromised answer - kind of do t look too closely just use peripheral understanding. If English were my second language I’d have really struggled trying to understand exactly what it meant and trying to answer correctly.

If it helps the awkward formulation of the questions is because the answers are given EXACTLY as they are in the book. So theoretically you could memorise the book, not comprehend much of it and still pass.

The National Trust is not an environmental charity. It's a heritage charity.

If these are real questions from the real test, there's a hell of a lot wrong with them - the start of the Bronze Age in another test was also wrong (prehistoric archaeology graduate here).

The National Trust is not an environmental charity. It's a heritage charity.

It manages huge tracts of land. AONBs and so on. Coast and countryside. It's the largest private land owner in the UK and it has a conservationist brief.

I’m at the bar and there was one question in my test about the court system where none of the answers were correct. I chose the least incorrect but suspect it wasn’t the right answer iyswim.

Failed test 1. Not a history fan of uk history but can tell you loads about Europe and America!

Failed 17/24. Some of those were really hard!

Better on test 2 - 70% but still failed

75% on test 3.... I guessed many though

Failed. I am spectacularly bad at history so got pretty much every one of those wrong. I fail to see how that's about life in the UK though, surely we should be focused on what the values and laws are today?

I’m sure I only did one test - has it recently (last 3/4 years) become 2 ?? Now also worrying there may be a need to retake as I haven’t yet become British. Oh gawd.

Oh think I’ve failed this thread test. These are attempts. Got it I think. Have been reading thinking it’s become far more complex