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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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cannycat20 · 02/07/2019 20:53

Have just taken the first one for fun and only got 75% despite having lived the majority of my 50-odd years in the UK (with a couple of short exceptions).

I'm a bit bemused at how irrelevant some of the questions are to most people's daily lives and just how much history there is in there (and I'm a librarian, I love trivia, but on a daily basis it's not as much use as, you know, how do you recognise a cycle path, or what's the current currency, or what's the emergency services phone number, or what you call the professional tradesman you need to call to unblock your toilet, for instance).

I also take exception a bit to some of the answers ("British Queen"? Shouldn't it be British Monarch, really?) and in the first test alone I spotted a syntax error without even trying....still, as long as people know sailing and rowing are terribly popular sports (especially at universities in the south of England, in my experience), and surfing isn't (I mean, it's a bit working class, isn't it, surfing....) [Joke, just in case anyone thinks I'm being serious....] and what the symbol of the House of Tudor was, everything's just tickety boo....

ScreamingValenta · 02/07/2019 21:15

I guessed right about the World Wide Web

If that was the q about 'British inventions' it was poorly worded because one of the things listed wasn't an 'invention' at all.

Geeta86 · 06/11/2019 00:30

I agree with you 100%. This site is a lot better I think, at least it helped me pass: uktest.net/category/life-in-the-uk-test

DulciUke · 06/11/2019 01:06

I've tried the test for kicks several times and mostly failed. The history questions were easy, but all the questions re the various court systems and sports did me in. I can't even answer questions re athletes and sports in my own country, much less somewhere else.

30to50FeralHogs · 06/11/2019 01:33

How are those questions "Life in the UK"? They may be about history or politics in the UK but they're mainly completely useless for living here in 2019. If the people having to pass this test to qualify for citizenship can answer all or most of them correctly they will be doing better than most of the general public!

happymrsc · 06/11/2019 01:56

I failed... not sure how not knowing when humans were able to make bronze disqualifies me as British but hey ho. 🤦🏻‍♀️

cannycat20 · 06/11/2019 02:11

Nope. Despite being born and bred here and having spent most of my adult life in England. I just don't understand what relevance the Tudors have to modern day life. But then I've never understood the obsession with the Tudors when it comes to British history.

Meanwhile, useful things aren't in there, like, oh, I don't know, what does it really mean when a shop in England over a certain square footage says they have 24/7 opening hours; or, what emergency number should you call if you're in danger; or even, what are the major political parties in England (though that one's getting harder to answer by the day, given how many independents are floating about these days), don't seem to be in there. But then I suppose the type of people who probably compiled these questions probably also have servants to deal with those kind of paltry day-to-day matters. Wink

JaneJeffer · 06/11/2019 08:16

Woo hoo!

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