What class are you according to this?

I’m also elite and I have no idea why - I grew up on a council estate, went to a state school and my income is below the national average. I did go to Oxbridge but it didn’t ask me that!

This bbc test has been around for years and I don't think they have changed the criteria since it was first put on line.

We always come out as Elite and yet neither me or DH went to private school or to any university let alone an elite one. Hoping my son will be the first in our family to go to Uni. I grew up in a working class family on a council estate and DH was a vicars son and grew up quite poor.

Established middle, which is fairly accurate.

But as an experiment I tried again with exactly the same answers except I checked the 'rent home' box. This would change the outcome to emerging service worker. What nonsense.

It seems to be mostly finance based anyway. No account taken of background or education or own occupation (other than income), and other class markers.

It's a stupid algorithm. I tried saying that I had the highest income, savings, property etc, but only socialised with shop assistants and postal workers, and played video games and listened to rap. It said I was part of the elite where really what I was going for was uncultured lottery winner.

And I did go to private school, as do my children.

Yes, I think this is years old, the link.

Exactly. I had no idea that a certain type of music can only be listened to by people of a certain class

Elite 😂purely down to a recent small inheritance in an ISA and value of our house....oh I occasionally listen to classic fm in my very old car ..it only has a radio 😂

It says a lot about you that you consider socialising with postmen and liking rap indicates that someone is "uncultured".

It would be funny that MC / UC interests are seen as "culture" while WC interests are seen as vulgar / tasteless if it wasn't so bloody offensive.

😂😂according to this I’m elite. That’s the biggest bit of bollocks I’ve heard in a good while. I’m about as elite as the crisp butty I’m craving right now….

How ignorant you sound.

It's all about money. The answers to the other questions, about culture and socialising, appear to be superfluous.

And if you look at the class threads on MN you see class is not all about money at all.

I'm not laughing it off at all. I'm saying it's a stupidly blunt instrument, because it's 'classing' me a first generation school-finisher who attended a failing school which was shut down entirely within five years of my leaving, and who is from an extremely deprived background with privately-educated people who come from generations of secure wealth, education and privilege. We may have the same income now, but to me, omitting someone's early life ignores a large element of what feeds into social class.

There is NOTHING Elite about me.

I'm the opposite. If I put in I own this house, in suddenly middle class.

That's because house ownership is a massive class indicator these days.

In many areas of the UK, being able to afford a house means you are either in a well paid job, or you have parents/grandparents who were property owners themselves and able to help with the deposit (or inheritance), or both.

Elite apparently!

Lol established middle class but I imagine that's purely based on money in the bank which is due to an recent house sale 😂

New affluent worker

I remember doing this when it first came out! I was technical middle class then.
Now I'm elite, I guess because I scrimped to buy a house in the south, our joint income is good (though not as good as back then interestingly) and we have a good pot of savings.
It seems to have also based it on the fact I have friends who are scientists and lecturers and I go to operas and like classical music. But I also like hip hop. I'm just a nerd.

Elite. Hahahhahhahhahha that's hilarious!

I am traditional working class which is hardly surprising.

Thing is if I'd been sensible when I was younger (I'm 40) I'd have focused on saving and got a mortgage when the rates were good. I was still working class. And if I owned one now I still would be. We'd live I na slightly different house but it wouldn't have changed my upbringing, education or hobbies.
Mine and my partners decision making over a house isn't the singular thing that determines our class.

You've completely missed the point of the post. I'm not ignorant, I was testing the algorithm, I didn't design it. Why are different occupations such as solicitor or cleaner on there if they're not supposed to be class markers? Same for activities such as visiting stately homes vs watching sport. The point is it didn't matter what I said - I had money so it decided I was elite regardless of the rest. I was poking fun at it.

It might be an indicator but it's not exactly accurate either.

If I become bankrupt and need to rent somewhere, or even to temporarily claim benefits, I don't suddenly become working class.

I don't think that.