[Closed] Can you pass the UK Citizenship test? I didnt so I have to leave the country

Goodbye

I failed also. Hmmmm, best I take the job in Australia after all.

fail

16 for me.

Me too:

You scored 13 out of a possible 24

You have failed, the pass mark was 75% According to the Life in the UK Test, you have insufficient knowledge of the English language or of life in the UK to remain

Oh well, the UK is over rated anyway...

potshot at it, got a 9 🙁

Looks like i'm going underground..

13 for me! Have to question the relevancy of over half of those questions to citizenship!

Just 12 for me, but I left 3 years ago anyway.

WTF is there a question about Halloween, that's the time of year to be plotting to blow up parliament.

I had to guess pretty much all of them....

11 for me.

10 out of 24, where are we going then? I fancy somwhere warm 😉

Hey I'm winning so far 🙂

11.good job I'm already somewhere warm..still in t shirt and shorts here..

I also only scored a 12 out of 24 but then again I haven't lived in the UK for over 15 years. 🙂

5 out of 24.

It was a complete guessing game for nearly all the questions. Oh well

I'm obviously a bit better at guessing 😉

i failed too 12/24 ... well there's an excuse to go work/live abroad 😛

Well, it would at least help if the test had the correct answers

21. Who is the monarch not allowed to marry?

Correct answer: Anyone who is not a Protestant

Which is wrong - none of the options were correct - the monarch can marry anyone except a catholic, clearly enshrined in the 1689 Bill of Rights!
[i]And whereas it hath been found by experience
that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince, or by any king or queen marrying a papist, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do further pray that it may be enacted, that all and every person and persons that is, are or shall be reconciled to or shall hold communion with the see or Church of Rome, or shall profess the popish religion, or shall marry a papist, shall be excluded and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess or enjoy the crown[/i]

Nothing about not being protestant, entirely limited to forbidding Catholics!

Harumph!

13 here. WTF have most of those questions got to do with living a normal, legal life in the UK?

Worse than trivial pursuit (in that with TP at least some of the facts are interesting)!

Group buy of one-way tickets, now where are we all going?

13 as well, wonder what country will have me now

14 here. Anyone fancy a group relocation to Canada?

16. And I am actually an immigrant.

12 so I'm out. And I guessed most of them. That test is ridiculous.

9 for me 🙁

11 for me too 🙁

It does say "Questions taken from" so I presume they've picked a few super hard ones from the many easier, more relevant ones?

got bored. Ah well, I was born here, I'm in!

I failed drastically... And the questions were a million miles away from achieving the supposed purpose.

Also, they got at least one wrong...

"Is the statement below TRUE or FALSE: you can attend a hospital without a GP's letter only in the case of an emergency"

Apparently this is true- but that's rubbish, there's walk-in minor injuries centres at loads of hospitals. And if I want to get my leg checked out I speak to my consultant, not my GP, even though I've been discharged.

11! At least I'm a bloody foreigner so I dont feel so bad whilst I get kicked out!

I have no idea though what ones I got right?

Problem is that this test is actually quite an embarrassing representation of the view that "the establishment" has not only of potential immigrants but of the majority of the country's current population.

It really is a representation of the attitude that made me start looking at moving away.

50% here. Always wanted to leave, now it's official that we must go. Fantastic.

Mind you, if the Grauniad's JavaScript's as good as their spelling this is not to be trusted... Although I badly want to believe that we MUST go.

11. Looks like that relocation to San Francisco might be the way forward..

It really is a representation of the attitude that made me start looking at moving away.

You wot?

15 out of 24, how the hell am I supposed to know any of those? Iwas living in a foreign country until a couple of months ago. 🙄
How irrelevant are those questions anyway?

10! fair enough i'm off to live with me grandma in malta then! 😀

17 - just failed. 🙁

edit: wow you're all thick! I thought I did badly. 😛

And the questions were a million miles away from achieving the supposed purpose.

How do you know ?.......the guy that set the questions might have been a UKIP member. With a wicked sense of humour.

16, but its ok im Scottish and dont want to be part of the UK. 😀

15-but the questions really are a load of nonesense
i would be surprised if anyone can pass this without learning first so it is hardly a test of being British

ernie_lynch - Member

How do you know ?.......the guy that set the questions might have been a UKIP member. With a wicked sense of humour.

Stated purpose I said, not actual purpose 😉

I've seen some of the current(ish) questions as an ex-colleague of mine's girlfriend was applying for citizenship and I thought the questions were tough.

Well the stated purpose Northwind, was to make it more difficult. I think they have probably succeeded.

OOPs - wow some irrelevant questions for determining citizenship. The only one I was embarrassed to get wrong was The Council of the European Union.

But the dates and other ?s seem far too abstract.

23/24 using google

You scored 17 out of a possible 24

You have failed, the pass mark was 75% According to the Life in the UK Test, you have insufficient knowledge of the English language or of life in the UK to remain

where are we all going? Bolivia for me I think

ernie_lynch - Member

Well the stated purpose Northwind, was to make it more difficult. I think they have probably succeeded.

Good point, well made.

63% here so they need to deport me 😆

Actually if you have revised for the test you can easily get 100% correct answers within 5 mins or less. Yes, it's that easy.

Good point, well made.

Thanks 🙂

Thirteen. 😐

Most of those questions are crap anyway; as pointed out, the one about Halloween. 🙄 Teh ironings....

16, but its ok im Scottish and dont want to be part of the UK.

Well, you must live a miserable life then, cos I'm afraid you have to wether you like it or not. Hey ho, life is so unfair sometimes eh?

What kinds of questions do the panel feel would be a better test of understanding life in modern Britain?

I'll start shall I?

How should you react if a person cuts ahead of you in a queue? (Select 2)

a) approach the person and berate them
b) complain to an official or worker in the establishment
c) look upwards, raise your eyebrows and make a barely audible "tut" noise
d) sigh and look at other people in the queue
e) what's a queue?

9. It's all stuff I don't need to know.

I'll start shall I?

How terribly British of you to ask for permission.

Johnny Foreigner wouldn't understand.

You pass the test GrahamS.

12. You are in a pub on a night out, and someone is staring at your girlfriend, how do you respond?

a) Ask them 'what the **** are you looking at?' in a loud aggressive voice
b) Give them a 'Glasgow Kiss'
c) Invite them to join in a Premiership footballer-style 'spit-roast' of your girlfriend

It's all stuff I don't need to know.

Oh hark at him ........."I'm not a foreigner".

12. You are in a pub on a night out, and someone is staring at your girlfriend, how do you respond?

a) Ask them 'what the **** are you looking at?' in a loud aggressive voice
b) Give them a 'Glasgow Kiss'
c) Invite them to join in a Premiership footballer-style 'spit-roast' of your girlfriend

d) do nothing. Instead come home and complain about it on singletrack world.

d) do nothing. Instead come home and complain about it on singletrack world.

🙂

epic fail, glad I got out before I was pushed

Damn double post!

15/24 here

Can i have a window seat please

21, no use of Google. Sorry everyone, I'm staying.

11 here and i can honestly say i guessed about 50% of them. I think this proves that any successful new citizens are either smarter than we are or can memorise lots of mundane, useless facts with no understanding of them from a book.

i notice nobody has scored top marks yet either.

15, but its ok im english and dont want to be part of the UK. 8)

just a thought but is that the whole test or just the trickiest 24 questions that the guardian could find in order to get malcom and cressidra tut tutting into their lattes ?

I think this proves that any successful new citizens are either smarter than we are or [b]can memorise lots of mundane, useless facts with no understanding of them from a book[/b].

13, but then I left the UK 17 years ago.

hahaha looks like I'm off to Italy where Euros, a few of them, will allow me to stay in the country for as long as I like..

Here you have to answer questions not even 10 yr olds can answer..

A few years ago an American who worked for me was taking it, so I had a go - and failed...

But one of the questions was actually incorrect - forget the exact question/answer but it was along the lines of:

Question - In the late 19th century from which country did many immigrants settle into the UK?
Answer - Poland

Note on map:

http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1900/index.html

14.

????? ???????? ??????!

14.... I'll get my coat....

15.

I'd like to go to France, thanks 😀

The inaccuracies of the questions/answers of the citizenship test was discussed on Radio 4 yesterday.

Foreigners just need to get used to the inefficiencies of British bureaucracy.

And learn how to whinge about it along with the weather. Whilst sipping warm beer. It's what makes being British so special.

13 - Fail

17, good job I'm moving to the continent in a few weeks. Last one out, please turn the lights off.

19

Do I have to stay?

16 but guessed at a few. I'm off...

Ouch 16. I can't find my passport. Panic!

15
Incidentally, the number of years since I left the UK 8)

Apart from 23 and 24, I had to guess on all of them, and scored 11.

So now just leaves the one hard question, France or Canada?