UK Citizenship Test: Would You Get In?

[Zippy]

Another 58% for me.
Fortunately my ancestors went the non-exam route of invading and killing the king in open battle back in 1066.

No love. It was a practical exam in those days

[TykeMerc]

66% here, much of it's far from common knowledge and a few lucky guesses.

A guy I was working with has a Thai wife and he told me about all the stuff they had to prepare, the forms and the repeated tests.
She passed in November and they were filling in the indefinate leave forms. They'd paid quite a bit in visa's tests and the likes, I was quite surprised.

[RichardCranium]

Piece of piss.

Just print off the questions and answers and run through the test half a dozen times. Being able to read English would help, but is not required.

Link: http://www.knoowgle.com/Citizenship/UK/CitizenshipTest/

Finding other sites with questions and answers is trivial in Google.


BTW, this was how I originally passed my PRINCE2 Foundation. A permie colleague left his software version of the course unattended on his disk one night and I made an off-site backup copy. I checked that copy worked by going through the multiple-choice test that came with it over and over and over again until I was getting > 90% every time. (Each run through it presented different questions.) Understanding the question / answer was irrelevant, it was simply a matter of learning the correct response. I reckon I could pass a Japanese PRINCE2 Foundation that way, or a non-English reader could pass the UK Citizenship that way.

(It was after that I got the manual and did the Practitioner course and discovered what some of the questions meant.)

[Peoplesoft bloke]

71% - fail

I was born here to English parents with totally English (and I mean English) ancestry going back to at least the 1600s - I'm not carping on about it or saying it's great, but if I can't pass that (considering I do take more than a passing interest in News, current affairs and General knowledge) then I wonder how many people with a similar background could. Isn't it a little bit unfair to expect people from elsewhere to know stuff that many of us don't?

[mudskipper]

67%. I'm quite pleased with that.

[Paddy]

66% here, much of it's far from common knowledge and a few lucky guesses.

A guy I was working with has a Thai wife and he told me about all the stuff they had to prepare, the forms and the repeated tests.
She passed in November and they were filling in the indefinate leave forms. They'd paid quite a bit in visa's tests and the likes, I was quite surprised.

It really p$ses me off they way the Government make it so difficult for genuine cases including spouses of UK citizens. Other so called refugees seem to be able to walk in and get a British passport within a year.

If a UK citizen gets married; the spouse should be let in regardless of which country he or she comes from.

[TykeMerc]

It really p$ses me off they way the Government make it so difficult for genuine cases including spouses of UK citizens. Other so called refugees seem to be able to walk in and get a British passport within a year.

Yup quite confusing that.

If a UK citizen gets married; the spouse should be let in regardless of which country he or she comes from.

Assuming it's a real marriage of course not one just to obtain a passport, not so easy to prove, but I guess a passport/right to stay could be removed as soon as the marriage breaks down if it ever becomes known.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I wonder if the questions / ‘correct’ answers were deliberately chosen so that a native Briton would only get about 2/3 and thereby fail. Then the government could shout about how tough the test is and anyone that passes deserves it.

Not that a New Labour government would ever engage in lies, fraud and spin.

[AtW]

These questions are all answered in a very small book meant to officially prepare you for test - it is very short, but once you read it then 90% of questions are trivial.

Crap test for sure, like most of "memory" tests.

[Gonzo]

I got 14 out of 24, 58%. I have been away for one year but still, I don't think I have forgotton that much.

It seemed there were a significant number of questions about benefits and what would I know about those?

The XXXXs have a fun two part test which had the pass line upped to a quite ridiculous level last year. So, now you have to be quite academic to achieve citizenship. The language test is set at a level 90% of natives would fail and the culture test, 70% of natives would fail. Well according to Secondary School exam results.

There is an immigration museum in Adelaide, South Australia that is fascinating.

South Australians are always quick to tell you that South Australia was settled by entrepreneurs and not convicts. It seems though that that the entrance exams were always set in "a european language", the language chosen at the whim of the person testing you. If you were white you would get the exam in English. If you were black it is more likely that you would get the exam in Polish or Croatian.

They do make a point of saying "we're not like that any more" ....

Then when I went for my citizenship ceremony, one of other ladies recieving citizenship was offered the services of an interpreter as she could not speak English.

At Mrs Gonzo's citizenship ceremony in East London it was only her and one Australian bloke that could speak English at all.

The whole ceremony was quite frankly an embarrassment.



Another four years and I can apply for New Zealand citizenship so I can tell you all about it then. I have been here for one year and can now vote so there is a long list of things that I think need to change....