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 😂

It’s just a test as to whether you really want citizenship or not. I don’t particularly care about it but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to ask people to learn a few facts and be tested on them as part of gaining citizenship.

Yeah, I think I’d probably need to read the book to answer that one as they would expect.

I can pass these tests easily.

i think the purpose of the tests for immigrants is less that you need to know this stuff (clearly you don’t) and more just to show you have made some sort of basic effort. Just learn the answers. Its a test of willing more than anything else.

I did 3 and got 80%

I have just spectacularly failed 54% 🤦‍♀️I am intelligent and 100% British!

My daughter in law passed hers a couple of weeks ago and you're right, the questions are crazy.

I failed too 😪17/24 🤣
My ancestry is 100% British, at least dating back to my great-great-great grandparents (the last I know about)

Some questions seemed petty, like 'Did UK leave EU on 31 or 30 January?' or 'Did Ireland become an island 12000 or 10000 years ago?'

I hope the real test isn't that harsh, as others suggest it's hopefully more a test of effort than 100% accuracy.

59 year old London born and bred and I got 60% - I’d never heard of half the things they asked about and fussed half the answers

at £50 a pop

I was helping my friend (lived here since 1989) as like other have said, she’s genuinely worried about being made to leave despite living her whole adult life here, she managed 85% on the mock and I got them all right but my dh also did it later and only got 80% (different questions). I do think that would be citizens should pass higher level English language exams if they haven’t been educated here or in another English speaking country but silly exams about saints days, jury numbers and lunch is irrelevant and should be stopped. I’d actually like all would be citizens to complete a portfolio of skills, language, having employment, volunteering in their community or whatever to prove they are productive members of society, but also particularly in cases of arranged marriage to check they are ok

British, scored 71%
Nothing there that is any part of my life as a British person.

TBF that sounds like a lot more hard work (and resource heavy for tax payer) than a 24 question test with an accompanying revision resource.

The citizenship test is kind of like blue m&ms on the Led Zeppelin rider. They always had a long list of equipment, sound, technical and food requirements for their concerts and the last one was a big bowl of M&Ms with the blue ones removed. When they arrived they checked the M&M bowl and if the blue ones were missing, they were satisfied everything else will have been done properly.

It's not the knowledge themselves they are testing - it's the commitment and integrity.

I took a second one and still got 71%
Mind you, I lost a mark for saying it was false that people were protected from discrimination on the basis of gender. (And I'm right and the quiz was wrong!)
my school knowledge of Henry VIII did come in handy.

How does it compare to the citizen test for your birth country OP?

Yes I got a question on Wales wrong, I thought it joined us officially under Henry VII (who had a Welsh father) but it was actually under Henry VIII. I got all the questions on Scotland & Wales wrong, my knowledge of the rest of the UK is definitely poor.

I thought thst, too, so as it wasn't an option, I assumed I missed some news about it going up to £10000.

I got 83%. I got the ones with dates wrong. I have a history degree. I think you should know roughly when we first had a prime minster (and I did know roughly) - I don't think you need to know exactly. I also recognise there will be many people out there in the streets who have probably never even thought about when we first had a prime minister.

If I were actually going to take the test, I would do a bit of study first. It has made me realise I don't really know huge amounts about how our court system works, the different levels of court etc.

I do think I would probably pass my driving theory test if I had to take it tomorrow though.

I thought the Shakespeare question would be easy but apparently for 1/3 of school age Brits it's not.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.thestage.co.uk/news/one-third-of-schoolkids-do-not-know-who-shakespeare-is&ved=2ahUKEwji5cep7IuQAxVLUEEAHWZUOyEQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3ZItJ4jSozwRt37idPP4R1

That wasn't Led Zeppelin.

Who cares? It's an analogy.

Omg please have a Fawlty Towers question!

Imo it's pretty important as we had a bloodless revolution to get a new king & queen & I'm pretty sure it impacted our governmental system, but need to check how.

Who cares? Well me because it's not an analogy, it's nonsense.

It is crucial though that migrants respect that. It's like the church. It's part of Britain officially, doesn't mean no other country has an official church.

I'm not British, I've never been to Britain and got 83%. The only questions I guessed were those asking for the exact year of a historical event.

Coming from an English-speaking country makes it easier to pass, but it's not unreasonably difficult.

I bet most people don't want to swear allegiance to King...😂 Remember how that went at the coronation!