Reply to: UK Citizenship test tomorrow - ask your questions here

[remontado]

Hi! What about those paid "test packages" that are said to help you for the test. Are they any good? i mean, most of them are advertised to work, though they are priced this one for instance). I Checked out others that are for free, but can anyone give advise or at least assure that they are worth it? do they actually help?
Thanks a lot.

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[Clippy]

Hi! What about those paid "test packages" that are said to help you for the test. Are they any good? i mean, most of them are advertised to work, though they are priced (this one for instance). I Checked out others that are for free, but can anyone give advise or at least assure that they are worth it? do they actually help?
Thanks a lot.

Hmm, your first post and you dig this one up.

A Google search of "UK Citizen Test" doesn't bring this page up (well, not in the first 5 pages at least).

I can only presume you found it while rummaging around your belly button for fluff.

[nkoe]

Seeking advise...

Hi! What about those paid "test packages" that are said to help you for the test. Are they any good? i mean, most of them are advertised to work, though they are priced (this one for instance). I Checked out others that are for free, but can anyone give advise or at least assure that they are worth it? do they actually help?
Thanks a lot.

[remontado]

So you'd recommend it as a refresher for someone coming back for a quick break after a few years away?

Any good bits on claiming benefit? I understand it's mandatory nowadays, so I'd better get the hang of it. When in Rome, and all that.

Hmm, I am not sure if claiming benefit is mandatory, the government definitely won't push you to do so. But without a doubt the document is useful.

[crimdon]

Well, possibly but its easy so long as you read and remember around 50 pages of text from official book.

Just like taking a MCP exam then and remembering the braindump....

[pickle]

Where is Mansfield Cask Bitter brewed?

a) Doncaster
b) Mansfield
c) Wolverhampton
d) Bristol

Thats a trick question. Sure to keep em out.

[Sysman]

The chapters 5 is about housing, debts and rentals, everyday jobs, I found them good for a person who is new to the country.

So you'd recommend it as a refresher for someone coming back for a quick break after a few years away?

Any good bits on claiming benefit? I understand it's mandatory nowadays, so I'd better get the hang of it. When in Rome, and all that.

[remontado]

That's right

My housemate recently took (and passed) his citizenship test so I've read the book they give you while I was testing him.

Curiously, the book says we have general elections every 5 years (!) and the prime minister lives at no. 10 Downing Street (I know, traditionally he does, but not at the time of the test he didn't).

There were several other typos and inaccuracies in that book - told him to remember the mistakes and answer according to the book.

Makes for interesting reading. I didn't know half that stuff myself - the rest is just common sense.

Yes, I share this idea, the book is very useful in terms of general knowledge.
The chapters 5 is about housing, debts and rentals, everyday jobs, I found them good for a person who is new to the country.

[realityhack]

My housemate recently took (and passed) his citizenship test so I've read the book they give you while I was testing him.

Curiously, the book says we have general elections every 5 years (!) and the prime minister lives at no. 10 Downing Street (I know, traditionally he does, but not at the time of the test he didn't).

There were several other typos and inaccuracies in that book - told him to remember the mistakes and answer according to the book.

Makes for interesting reading. I didn't know half that stuff myself - the rest is just common sense.

[Clippy]

Sorry guys, but what has all the previous posts to do with the UK Citizenship Test ?

Your first post and you dig up this old thread.

Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear...

[Buffoon]

You are walking in East End of London. A blonde girl with a short skirt smiles at you.

I live in the East End of London you bastard! If that happend to me I would think that she has escaped from St Clements Hospital

[bored]

[remontado]

Where am I?

Sorry guys, but what has all the previous posts to do with the UK Citizenship Test ?

[sasguru]

Bit more than 50,000 Mailman: at current rates they are recruiting 50,000 new state employees every 125 days. Current estimates are for 360,000 extra state employees in the period 2003-2006.

Have you ever thought this is a very far sighted policy by the govt? They are taking up the slack caused by the inevitable hollowing out of the middle class due to globalization. Eventually we'll all work for the public sector.
Personally, I am angling for a post as the Tower Hamlets Senior Outreach Worker for Nubile Nymphomaniacs.

[Spartacus]

Come on...you know that if they created a super fast and efficient service that there would be no reason to retain the 50,000 extra state servants since brownie came to power (and all this inspite of 40,000 supposedly being put out to pasture in last years budget! ).

Mailman

Bit more than 50,000 Mailman: at current rates they are recruiting 50,000 new state employees every 125 days. Current estimates are for 360,000 extra state employees in the period 2003-2006.