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.

[sofasetteecouch]

I failed and am British by birth for generations. I would have expected to see alot more about the duties of citizens, british customs and equality. How to pay tax, road licenses car insurance etc

[steppemum]

OP - I had a thread about this a while back. I had a friend who I was helping with her English, and then she asked me to help her study for the test. I tried it the first week with her, and I failed.

I thought it was really hard. But on the other hand if you are good at learning facts, you can swot it up and pass it.

[Lolimax]

20 here. Not sure it makes me British though. I am, I'm Welsh but the questions surprised me.

[heron98]

What a load of shit.

One question I got wrong was "what is a central value of British life" to which there were 4 random answers. I put "going to the pub". The correct answer is (apparently) "the ability to laugh at ourselves".

Well I am British from birth, like going to the pub and have a complete inability to laugh at myself so fuck you.

[FlowerOfTheWest]

I got 20/24. But some of the questions are . How is knowing how many ski centres there are in Scotland relevant to life in the UK if you are not a skier?!

[applecart09]

I sat this 7 years ago and got full marks. Finished the test in 8 minutes. Don't stress.

[AGnu]

18... pretty sure the test is out of date. Isn't the millennium stadium now called something else?

[MumOnACornishFarm]

Scraped through with 18 points. Several of those were lucky guesses. So many stupid questions! And I have lived here all my life.

[incywinci]

13/24

[NatalieRushman]

I retook it and got 23, purely because I got nearly all history questions. I do agree that the Dunkirk Spirit question was highly unreasonable.

[NatalieRushman]

21/24. I got all the sports ones wrong. I'm not sure this is the best test ever - a few of the questions were vague, if not outright factually questionable.

[PlymouthMaid1]

Hmm 17. Some very strange questions unrelated to actual life in the UK and I have spent 53 years living here.

[alteredimages]

I failed too. It was the history section that really let me down.

I appreciate that it is possible to pass by preparing properly, but why should anyone waste their time learning who Sir Alfred Butler was (never heard of him) or memorising the name of the director of the belles of st trinians?

I also agree that some of the questions are horribly written. This one for example:

One of the tribal leaders who fought against the Romans was Boudicca, the queen of the Iceni. What is it known as now?

Mark One Answer
northern England
eastern England
western England
southern England

Neither Boudicca, the Romans or the Iceni are now known as eastern England.

Neckguard I think it would take significantly more than a couple of days with a book to learn the volume of information required by the test.

[NeckguardUnbespoke]

It is not just the UK that have strange tests for people wanting to become citizens.

The effect would be the same if we had people sit a paper on late Roman emperors and their relationship with provinces. It tests whether people can read an exam paper in English and more importantly whether they can be bothered to revise for it.

There's a concept in computer science called a "proof of work" (it's the basis for Bitcoin, for example). It's just a way to prove to a third party that you care enough about some outcome to invest some resources in it. So for Bitcoin it's "I'll give you a string, you must find a string which when the two are hashed the result ends in some number of zeros", for some anti spam schemes it's "I'll give you the result of multiplying two prime numbers together, you just need to tell me the primes". All this is saying is "if you want to become a British citizen, you just need to prove you want it enough to invest a couple of days in reading a book". If there's some benefit to the reading, so much the better, but it's hardly a necessary part of it.

[LadyStarkOfWinterfell]

It's a test of reading comprehension not Britishness

[goodiegoodieyumyum]

My husbands Danish cousin was complaining about yhe test migrants rske in Denmark, she is Danish snd thought the questions irrelevant, the one for the Netherlands is pretty similiar in that many questions seem itrelevant to living in the Netherlands. It is not just the UK that have strange tests for people wanting to become citizens.

[tb]

15/24 - have lived out of the UK for 10 years.

[DiggersRest]

I did the real test too and passed. But l did study as I didn't want to fail

[soundsystem]

17/24. I let myself down on "our illustrious history", but got the government and society ones right. I didn't go to school in England so my grasp of English history is patchy. That said, if I was doing the test for real I'd revise!

[MardAsSnails]

I failed.

The fuckers had true above false for every question, apart from the one that was false. I clicked on the bottom one without reading and they'd switched them around! .clearly it was only that question that made me fail, and not my sarcastic answer that the House of Lancaster was more important than the House of Parliament and House of Lords. lancs girl and proud

[lamingtonnutty]

18/24 - British!!

[Babymouse]

I've taken the test, and what I found most helpful was the free tests online where you can take one after another and basically memorise ask the answers.

Honestly, it's just an English language test in disguise. Some of the questions are worded peculiarly to catch out non native speakers. If you spend some time studying you'll be fine.

[Just5minswithDacre]

The Tories set the subject matter didn't they?

[echt]

This thread would do well in Chat - share the glory, the humiliation.:o