Wanna try the UK Citizenship test?

[Thzumbiewitch]

See how well you do!

I am a Disgrace - I only got 12/24 - good job I've already left the country!

Oh, and when you've done it, click on Show Answers to see what you should have said :)

Yes, i rang up and was just told to make a booking in appointment with the midwife fro a few weeks later. They rarely test you now as home pg tests are so reliable.

I may have a tendency to take things a bit literally.

On the other hand

I am right.

Maybe, for the purposes of the test, MWs have honorary GP status. Or maybe, they forgot about pregnant women (more likely) - or maybe they didn't want to tell people taking the test about that facility - or maybe they don't consider the maternity unit as equalling "hospital" - who knows!

Blimey what a strange selection of questions. I literally can't think of a single use for the knowledge that there are roughly 15 million (or whatever it was) children in the country. I mean, maybe father christmas needs to know but I'm not applying for his job.

Also that they were recruiting bus drivers in the West Indies - I was really confused by that until I realised that they probably meant "to come to the UK". Initially wondered why they were asking about job shortages in the West Indies, for a UK citizenship test. But why didn't they just say what they meant? I mean, it's not like there are no buses in the West Indies is it.

But I took DD to the fracture clinic at St Thomas's for an appointment made by the minor injuries unit at Guys and we never went near a GP.

no but you probably went via A&E at Guys, didn't you?

No A&E at Guys, just the MIU. I'll stop being so mulishly literal now, I do see the point that our interaction with the hospital may have been insitgated by an 'emergency', but we weren't having an emergency by the time we attended (see what I did there?) the fracture clinic.

Sorry for hijack

18/24 - I scraped a pass

I am British Citizen by birth and a lawyer and I think a lot of the information they ask for is pointless.

How about
Which is the greatest social faux pas in the UK
a) Queue jumping
b) Talking about money
c) Claiming everything you do is guided by the hand of God (unless you are minister of religion.

Feeding which of these foods to your children will earn you the largest number of catsbumface reactions?
a)Greggs Sausage Roll
b)Pot Noodle
c)Fruit Shoot

Jeez, I got 10 , I'll get my coat then........

I did actually get some relevant questions when taking the actual test. DH loves telling people about the one regarding normal closing time of a pub. No idea how I got that one right ;-)

Thzumbiewitch I would like to - I've been living in the UK for over 6 years, my husband is British, my children have a UK passport, I pay my taxes and NI here, I would like to be able to vote in general elections, but it's just not in the budget.

Oh dear 15/24 (and a few of those were good guesses), I'll get my coat!

10/24

Where are we all going to go then? I pondered MN Island but think we'd all kill each other...

I think it's going to have to be Narnia.

Think I got 16 last time I tried it. I recall missing a couple trains thanks to picking up the study book in my station and going 'wtf... that's not right... and that's an over-generalisation...' etc.

Couple friends have had to do the test recently and kept ending up in the pub putting their fingers in their ears telling us 'Please, don't tell me how the book is wrong until after the test!' :)

I think the test should be more value based eg

Is it ok to hit your partner if they nag you?

Should newspapers be able to say whatever they like about politicians?

Is it ok to pay an official to jump the queue for a service?

Is individual autonomy more important than community cohesion?

How might you stop young people playing tricks on you at Halloween?

Call the police

Give them some money

Give them sweets or chocolate

Hide from them

they put that one in for a laugh surely?

11 for me

Haven't read the thread, BUT

I think the point of the test is NOT

everyone in the UK knows this

but is REALLY

you can only be a citizen if you care enough to learn this book

9/24. That's dire

Somehow I managed to get 21/24. I have to say that 6 of them I guessed and don't honestly know whether they were lucky guesses or that perhaps I knew the answers somewhere in my aged fuggy brain...

Probably Trills, but if they are going to make them jump through hoops the hoop might as well be worth jumping through. This isn't.

Some of those questions are incorrect: they didn't wait 100 years to publish the results of the 1911 census- they were online by 2009. And the first general census was in 1841 which was not among the answers.

And you can be referred to a hospital through a walk-in clinic.