I failed my life in Britain mock test

[Britishfailure]

So I am a European citizen who has lived in London for 3 decades married to a Brit and raised 2 children. I have been toying with the idea of citizenship I light
of the Reform “we want to deport you all” rhetoric.

I took the mock citizenship test tonight and scored 71% which was not enough to pass. However, I made my British DH and children take it too and I actually scored way higher than they did.

The test is honestly crazy. Questions about roast beef. Honestly so weird. I think I won’t bother becoming a British citizen as I really don’t like roast beef 😂

I also got 75% and no roast beef related questions. Also some guesses.

I got the roast beef question! It was which country is Roast Beef associated with , England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

It was the exact dates I failed on. The law and cultural questions were fine.

88%. It's like a pub quiz.

I got 85% but very annoyed by the "which 2 countries took part in the Battle of Agincourt question", England and France was correct.

The Welsh archers would be even more annoyed, with good reason.

But OP objected to the Boaty McBoatface question, so apparently not in her case!!

Some are ridiculously easy, but the dates one are more tricky, especially if they are offering you dates from the same century because I know enough about history to get to the right century but if it's a choice between something like 1655, 1618, 1623 etc, I haven't retained those without studying.

I can see that with study it's still hard but doable.

I know we're so awful with our obscure tests and leathery roast beef and ignorant population who, themselves, would never be able to pass a history quiz. It's amazing anyone wants to live here.

I took the test and failed, took a second test and passed. 🤷‍♀️

63% lived here 66 years and got a degree. 😂😂😂😂

83% for me, (Walpole dates, Habeas Corpus, Union Jack and small claims sum).

I’d assumed that the test would cover basic laws/good behaviours of living in the UK not “Did Hitler invade Poland?”.

As others have said, sometimes you just need to silently curse and learn the stuff.

Again. Smug.

its ok to have empathy for those who want to become citizens of the UK and have difficulty passing the test.
FWIW I've lived here for close to 30 years. I still don't get quite a lot of cultural references (Only Fools and Horses? Never seen it, not interested in ever watching)
Anyways. Haters gonna hate and all of that.

I just did a mock and got 22/24… but Ironically am a naturalised Brit, not born but bred here. My Dh and kids would have failed it as I only passed it as I am a bit of a dork.

Proves you’ve watched that Fawlty Towers clip?

Wadpole or Walpole?

I got 67% 🤣

My H got 54%.

Did you read and memorise the book for the test and despite that still failed it?

How many people can memorise a book?

I didn’t read the book, I just did the test. I am sure I can pass this test if I study for it. My point is more that this is a test which most British people cannot pass, so what’s the point of it?

A lot the responses I have had is that it shows that you are putting in the effort to become British by memorising mostly random facts totally irrelevant to life here, but you made the effort…

I got 75% quite impressed as I failed all my exams when I was younger😂

I'm 73 and English, centuries of English ancestors. I fully expect I'd fail it too. You've been here longer than anywhere else, so you're British enough for most reasonable people to agree. All avenues of difference are being exploited by bad actors in politics. It's disgraceful and I'm ashamed of the lot of them. Kemi Baydenoch wants her own ICE squad? How shameful is that? Disgusting.

Thank you 🙏

My husband had a man from the Far East working for him who had done his degree and professional qualifications here. One question was to name three Charles Dickens books (which I don't believe English schoolchildren have studied for years) and another was about the second verse of the National Anthem. I scored here as I learnt it in the Brownies in the 1960's but most people don't even know that there is a second verse.

I think knowing the second verse of the National Anthem is something that really does separate Brits from non-Brits.

Pretty much no British-born people know anything beyond the first verse.