Life in the UK Citizenship Test

[username124]

I'm currently studying for this test

lituktest.com/life-in-the-uk-test/

Someone fail this so I can feel better about myself.

17/24 - British!

16/24!

14

I think of it as a test of:
a - can you read English?
b - are you of at least medium intelligence?
c - (MOST IMPORTANTLY) can you be bothered to revise?

Rather than being test of things that all British people know innately.

I was lucky I got lots of questions about history!

22/24.

19/24

Trills, I agree. It's just an obscure history test.

13/24 I'll get my coat.....

Are there a finite number of questions and answers that people like the OP can revise and learn? Like the Driving Theory Test?

20, but quite a lot of luck involved

14, but in my defence I'm not British and have only been living here six months.

If I was to stay here long enough to have to sit the test, I have more than four years to study.

I mean "are you quite bothered?" seems to be a fairly good way to test if people should be allowed citizenship :)

Questions I got wrong:

What poem was written by Lord Byron?
The Tyger
The Daffodils
She Walks in Beauty
Anthem for Doomed Youth

22 - lots of history for me too, at the general knowledge level. But not much of actual use for living here!

I'm not really bothered with the difficulty of the test. I'm bothered with the fact that I have to study for it (just incase) and also pay to take the test

I am not a British, but i managed to get 22/24. The test questions are quite easy. I recently visited www.thelifeinuktest.co.uk/3rd-edition-2013.php and took some tests. But i have not scored 15/24 in all the tests. I'm really bother about official test!!

I'd argue about some of the answers.

I'd say that Henry VIII did believe in the divine right of kings

and

The evacuation of 300,000 people from the beaches (what a crap question - which beaches? When?) is not called "The Dunkirk Spirit." Yes people there displayed "the Dunkirk spirit" but that's not what the operation was called

13, then 21. Yes, the Dunkirk spirit question was daft.

19/24.

The thing about some of the questions was they were not significant e.g. how many millions of Chinese workers were taken on after, actually, I can't remember.

As for the main ingredients of a haggis??? I knew, them by the way.

Sutton Hoo?? Yes, I knew that, but seriously.

While I can see that all the info is in a booklet to gen up on, it should still be relevant to present day living, not a mixture of history and Trvial Pursuits. I can see that partly it's test of can you be bothered, but it also looks terribly like a gotcha.

I took and passed the Australian citizenship test, and all the info was absolutely relevant. I don't praise it because I passed, but because all the info seemed very fair and was expressed in good, accessible English, which at least on the UK ones was not, e.g. the Sutton Hoo question.

I took the actual test. Read the official book. Read the notes thing someone produces. Did some practice tests from their booklet. I am pretty sure I got every question right in the test. DH studied even less and he got just one wrong. It's not the hardest test in the world if you live in the UK and speak English to a reasonable degree. And actually I thought the cultural stuff in it was useful if you were not massively integrated. Overall, there are other things to grumble about the UK naturalisation process, or so I thought.

18/24.

I took the test in 2009, then it was more practical and I learned a lot about the services available in Britain. Most of the questions I got today were history questions. I think the old test was better for teaching you about the UK today. A lot of people complained that you should know UK history if you're going to live here. I agree with some history knowledge but some of the questions were obscure and poorly worded.

I got 18. What do you mean you don't have hundred pound notes?i

First attempt 61% fail
Second attempt 91% pass

It's very much dependant on the questions you get. Obvs!

11/24 - I'm British and went through the education system which apparently didn't teach me this stuff.
General knowledge I didn't know as I left the UK 7yrs ago so don't see the UK news etc.

18/24 and I've never lived in UK.

But I do have a strong interest in history. Some questions nuts. Like who cares what exact year William of Orange invaded Britain as long as you know he did and it was in the late 1600s.

failed the second time.

Got 23/24 the third time.

now addicted...