Topic: Would YOU pass the UK citizenship test?

[1066]

This should also be taught in schools so that everyone appreciates the freedoms as well as the responsibilities of living in a free-ish society.

well said Obbelix

can't be bothered to take the test, I'm sure I would fail.
I have worked with a couple of guys who took the test, and they passed. They said some of it was a bit odd but I just remember them being so chuffed to get their citizenship

[Mr Smith]

This test does just not matter because the country is not our own anymore, we share this country with anyone who wants to come here legally or illegally, Gordy says we still need more people to come to this country, great like Yosser said 'Give us a job' , ;)

[Sparkly]

Personally I don't think anyone should apply for citizenship anywhere without knowing some basic facts about theirr new home and yes, there should be an extension of this particular programme to teach about important historic events and people that have shaped British society.  This should also be taught in schools so that everyone appreciates the freedoms as well as the responsibilities of living in a free-ish society.

I totally agree, but the majority of the questions in that test had nothing to do with that.

On a side-note many of those things are covered in education (at all levels).....

I know that I do lots of sessions with my tutor group on a range of issues...

[Borlotti]

I've got an headache, or is it a headache. Let's change the subject.

[Mr Smith]

A friend of mine told me that his daughters did a subject at school called 'modern history' which I would think being fair would pass for questions for the Citizens test, so he asked them the question 'Do you know a British prime minister from the early twentieth century' the answer was no, then he asked them did they know who Gandhi was, and quick as a flash they gave him the size of his flip flop measurement, ;D ;D , chill out Borlotti, ;D

[betula]

I failed too :(

[Borlotti]

I passed, but only because I saw all the answers and remembered them, probably call that cheating, but don't really care, what a stupid test.

[Sinbad7]

Failed  ???

[Kea]

Yes I failed too....63%...what do you have to get to pass. Just as well I didn't have to do it for real.

[rosebud]

Failed 16 out of 24 :o

[cornykev]

I can't believe Rosebud beat me, 50% 50 bloody %, how many did you say Sam.  ???  I shall wait up now for my freebies to arrive.  :-X     ;D ;D ;D

[SamLouise]

It's no wonder you failed, Kev, you spend most of your time abroad on holiday anyway, don't you?  ;D ;D :-X ;D ;D

[shirlton]

I'm not even gonna look at it. I get bluddy confused as it is without getting it into my head that I don't really qualify to be a citizen of the UK ;D

[lushy86]

Failed! 50% - what a load of rubbish  >:(

Lushy x

[Paulines7]

I failed too.   :-[

[Bill Door]

I failed as well.

Then there again none of us read the book before we did the test.  It appears that it gave all the answers!

There were questions that are questionable.  Like going to the hospital.  I attended the hospital the other month to see my father-in-law.  But i did not have a doctors letter.

So effectively this test is only checking how good a short term memory a non-citizen has and how good they are at taking a test.

in despair Bill