Take the UK citizen test

Ok, its not the full one, just a few sample questions. Here's my output

Could you pass the citizenship test?
Your score is: 13 out of 20
57122 participants answered the quiz.

Sheesh, I can tell you the major battles, dates, people,arts, cultural history I can even tell you which days the UK saints days fall on, and don't get me started on the politicians or sportsmen and women of this country.

I'm sooooooooooooo embarrassed.

Welcome to the forum, Humanist. I don't know which test you took, but I failed this one:-
http://www.ukcitizenshiptest.co.uk/


I scored 14/24 and the pass mark is 18. I'll go and start packing my case right away, so that I'm ready when the Border Agency turn up to deport me. Oh, I forgot, Theresa May has relaxed the controls, so I may be able to stay after all....

Whoops:-

http://quiz.uk.msn.com/Quiz/Default.aspx?templateName=WidepageUKnewsquizwrapper&quizName=could-you-pass-the-citizenship-test

I took this one Ivan, brimming with confidence when I took it and moving slowly away from the screen hoping that no-one had noticed or seen me afterwards.

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the email you sent me. I will pop in occasionally even if only to browse. My current work and personnal responsibiliites don't allow much free time.

Nope, failed as well. 14/24.

If somebody could shut the door behind me please?  

Stuff and nonsense!

To have been born British is to have won First Prize in the race of Life.
Cecil Rhodes

Thanks OW! I feel better now!

( telegraph.co.uk)

Lest We Forget - that our politicians are,sadly,unworthy of all those we remember today...

Lest we Forget - that our politicians are sadly unworthy of all those we remember today..

...especially those who announce one day that they intend to sack wounded soldiers (and thousands of other ones), and then the next day feign concern for the dead at the Cenotaph - when they don't give a sod about the living.

( flickr.com)

" The world must be watching me - what a great photo-opportunity...!"

Phil Hornby wrote:( flickr.com)

" The world must be watching me - what a great photo-opportunity...!"

My Dad could have worn a top hat to do this.

The sad reality is that this Government finds it easy to deal with dead soldiers but is having difficulty in dealing with injured ones....

In dealing with dead soldiers they just have to stand up in Parliment once a week and state that thye send their condolences to the family......

Injured soldiers are entitled to a life time on benefits...And We all know much they dislike the idea of paying benefits to anyone.....

What chance do immigrants have if none of us can pass the test?

Failed the first time, passed the second, but bloody hard!

Must be British though, comfortable when it's cold and wet outside, and automatically observe the rules of queues.

I took the test and it appears I am a Serbo-Croat...

That answers quite a lot about you Mr Hornby/ Susan.

Blatant racism ! Shake hands immediately...

It's not racist, I am simply stating fact.

Facts? We don't see many of those on here...

Is no understanding. Is working hard for to make living. Is told off for taking job nobody want. More better apply benefit like everybody.

Well I failed too - 14 out of 24

Now where should I go, how about Canada

#Oh Ime a lumberjack and Ime ok#

Yeah that test was rather difficult. I think there were too many statistical questions that most people wouldn't know offhand. That's not "common knowledge" and has to be researched. Knowing how many children there are in Britain or the percentage of the population who identify as Muslim ... yeah right.

I scored 100% on the US Citizen practice exam, though. *dances*



http://www.800citizen.org/us_citizenship_test/

MMMMMM YEAH WELL




I went through the answers!!


They looked easy enough, didn't like the questions!



the differences from state to state would do my head in!

Professionals in the field of Testing have long been aware of the distortion that can be introduced by the "practice" element.

That's why potential Aircrew, for example, can only attempt the aptitude test every four years.

Just done the test, 17 out of 24, failed, i didn't think it was too bad for an old man suffering from memory loss. If i had been marking it i would have marked my score as a pass. I am sure they must be giving the wrong answer for some of the questions, got to be seven they are getting wrong.

my GRE score

Hated the GRE because of the horrific time limit. I couldn't stand how they'd give you a 6 paragraph except of something loaded with statistics and conditional phrases then expect you to answer 3 or 4 questions about it, each question containing 5 possible choices, and with each choice having only one or two words different from each other, and you had less than a minute to answer them. Ridiculous. I wasn't trying to get a degree in speed reading, and even if I were, why would I need it? If I could answer those questions, I would already know how to do it.

Rock,

I've always been a good test-taker. I can fly through them and get perfect or near-perfect scores. Just to give you an idea, I had to take a standardized test competing with over 800 college-educated professionals from across the state of Pennsylvania. I scored 6th overall, and that was with a 96% (I tied with 3 other folks). Thus even those who outscored me only did so by a couple of questions. The point, of course, isn't to pat myself on the back, but to emphasize that testing was something that came easily to me, and tests involving the English language are easiest of all. Yet because of those nasty (and unfair IMO) time limits, my English competency was only slightly higher than my math competency - and I'm HORRIBLE at math!

I'm also a somewhat slow reader because of my nature. This isn't because I have trouble with the language, but because I absorb every word. Skimming through test questions like that is a surefire way of getting something wrong because you didn't notice it said "does" and instead of "doesn't" or you misread a number as 727 instead of 772. I try to avoid freshman mistakes like that ... but the GRE tries to pressure you into making them, and as long as you're not taking half an hour to answer a grouping of 5 questions, there's no need for it. Speed-testing is even less valuable than normal testing since it can only measure surface knowledge, the stuff that is sitting right on the tip of your tongue and not what you really know.

I don't know why that bothers me so much since I still scored well above any necessary entrance requirements for any program I desired to take, but I am a bit of an anal perfectionist. When I know I didn't test to my true potential, I get all grrrrr and go postal!

A well-composed Personality Test will have questions at the end of the paper which should have the same answer as a question that appeared earlier. Discrepancy suggests a "guess" or worse, untruths.

I once had a book about standardized tests

I did, too. It was called simply "The Big Test" (IIRC). This book gave the life story of the man who invented the SAT and it described how the test came into being and what it was used for. As it turns out, the test was never designed to test your knowledge but to ensure that only the elite ever made it into college. The founder and subsequent financial backers of the SAT believed in a very small academic elite, an "aristocracy of knowledge" if you will, and the SAT was designed to be the gatekeeper. In order to pass it, you essentially already needed to know that which you were supposed to learn in college. That is no longer the case now, per se, but the vestiges of that ignoble goal still remains.

Well, I failed miserably on the
Uk test. Interestingly enough I was able to pass the German citizenship quiz posted on the Antenna Bayern.de site.

I hold to the philosophy of Groucho Marx who declared himself not prepared to join any Club that would have him as a Member.