Wanna try the UK Citizenship test?

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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 :)

I got 11...but then again I've never been to the UK. :)

ok fearful stop making me feel worse lol

10/24

In my defence I left the UK when Thatcher was still Prime Minister.

I think.

Or maybe John Major had just taken over.

Around that time anyway.

That is my excuse and I am sticking to it.

:o tjack ...I'm good at tests. I've always been a fantastic guesser.

pmsl @ fearful. I got 20 - I am not sure how many I genuinely knew and what was good old fashioned guessing! E.g. I definitely guessed the women and divorce question.

15/24 - awating the deportation van as I write...

However, did get full marks on this test, which I think is far more appropriate:

realcitizenshiptest.co.uk/quiz.php?n=1

This is all very amusing but have any of you read the text book that accompanies the test? This was all over facebook at the time my H was studying for it and it pissed me off actually. The purpose of the test is to evidence that you have the required level of English comprehension to function in the UK. It's like any subject at school/college/university where you read a text, remember it and get tested on your comprehension.

DH and I read it together and it sparked some interesting conversations about british history and culture, he learnt a lot and I learnt a bit, and he proved that he reads and understands english. It isn't meant to be a marker of how british a person is.

16/24, not allowed to stay.

The purpose of the test is to evidence that you have the required level of English comprehension to function in the UK. It's like any subject at school/college/university where you read a text, remember it and get tested on your comprehension

I've taught EFL/ESL for over 20 years.

To test for comprehension you don't typically require people to remember a text. You provide a text they have not seen before and ask questions, or require them to perform a task with respect to that text, designed to demonstrate how much (or how little) they understood it.

The reason being you are testing their English, not their ability to memorise facts from a set text and/or pay for a prep course that gives them stratagies that depend more on said memory than language aquisition.

For examples of how that is done please see FCE, CAE & CPE past papers.

I'm not saying that's the most effective way of testing a person's English comprehension. I'm just pointing out the purpose of the test. People can also take an accredited EFL course instead, which IMO is a far better option.

People can also take an accredited EFL course instead, which IMO is a far better option

I agree. But perhaps it is also the more expensive option, it's not cheap to take a camb. exam.

Out of interest, which exam do they use as the baseline as being equivilant ?

Is it around FCE level (B1).?

No idea!

Yes the test is cheaper (if you pass first time) though DH had to take it 4 times which cost him £120 - he could almost have done an english course for that. He just left it too late and his visa was running out.

11/24 I fail please deport me to LA or NZ, please.

12/24, lucky I left!

OK, Eric, but would have been harder to test English comprehension by making you memorise some facts that were actually correct?

I got 15/24 oops!

18/24
but I got 21 when I took the real thing !!!

I failed it when my DH did it for his permanent residency. So did my Dad. What got me was one of the questions had a major spelling mistake: Who is the hare to the throne
What a joke. Important thing is DH passed!