Would you get into the UK?

[Monkey Puzzle]

You have passed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 18 out of 24 (75%)

Time taken: 04 minutes 32 seconds

Some of those questions are a bit random, and others stupid, like the "Most employers will want you to supply this with your job application"

I thought National Insurance number was fair enough - some jobs are cash in hand after all.

 

[v0n]

You have passed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 21 out of 24 (88%)

Time taken: 02 minutes 54 seconds

Unfortunately, after 15 years in UK, I still have no right to be citizen....

 

[Burnsy2023]

Unfortunately, after 15 years in UK, I still have no right to be citizen....

You probably have the right to apply for it, along with the ~£1000 fees for doing so. Same boat as me.

 

[Mickey]

The test is about life in the UK, it should have practical knowledge like:

• What services can you obtain at the post office?
• What is a direct debit?
• What is national insurance?
• What documents do you need to be able to drive legally?
• What sort of consitution does the UK have?

It should be about what the UK is now, not what it has been. Knowing how many constiuencies there are doesn't help man nor beast.

Do we know they aren't possible questions?

 

[Burnsy2023]

Do we know they aren't possible questions?

Very possibly, but the test should ONLY include questions like this.

 

[apeZ]

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 11 out of 24 (46%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 33 seconds

Meh. I guessed quite a few.

 

[Mickey]

Very possibly, but the test should ONLY include questions like this.

By narrowing the choice of questions, you narrow material they need to learn.

 

[Burnsy2023]

By narrowing the choice of questions, you narrow material they need to learn.

Indeed, to material that is useful and relevant. Just as it should be.

 

[gurusan]

tbh have you guys checked out any other citizen tests for other countries? UK is not alone in this stupidity.

 

[Mickey]

But again it depends entirely on what media you read or watch and what days of the week you personally read / watch them. There's so much choice out there that two people could read a newspaper every day and watch a news channel 24/7 and still both have completely different information about different subject or even on the same subject. I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

That's true, but again, I'm more shocked at the attitude of people not wanting to know, or not thinking it's worth knowing than them not actually knowing it.

But I'm pretty sure the majority of people don't know it... Hell, some people don't even know how many sides a cube has!!

So that means it should never be a question on a test, incase someone doesn't know it?

But that's the point entirely, if the point of the test is just to see if you can read and write what bearing does it have on citizenship at all. I would have assumed that:

A. Being literate in English was not a requirement for citizenship in the UK.
B. There was no competency requirements either.
C. Wouldn't it be discrimination if the above were true?

So either the test is about the UK, citizenship and your suitability to live in the UK based on random facts from a sheet.

Or

It's a literacy test which is in no way related to citizenship.

It's a test to see if you can read/write, take in and understand information about the UK and remember the details at least long enough to take a test. I'm not sure what else you expect from it

 

[Mickey]

Indeed, to material that is useful and relevant. Just as it should be.

Well who decides what's going to be useful and relevant to everyone? And why would you limit the learning at all? I'd be all for expanding the subjects needed to be learnt, not limiting them.

 

[Stewy]

What a ridiculous test.

 

[nft_99]

ou have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 12 out of 24 (50%)

Time taken: 02 minutes 30 seconds

 

[v0n]

You probably have the right to apply for it, along with the ~£1000 fees for doing so. Same boat as me.

I think next year is the earliest for me to even try, I think Indefinite Leave To Remain is required first (I would need to somehow collect 5 years worth of payslips and P60's for that), then wait another 12 months, take ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Level 3 exam and then this Life In UK exam before forking out £800+ to begin process of becoming citizen. But then again next year, if I understand correctly, the new rules would extend waiting period by another 3 years. I would love to, but I have work to do, can't screw around with tests and schools for few months and it's not going to change much in my life.

 

[Angel_1701]

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 12 out of 24 (50%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 01 seconds

Damn, time to pack my bags I guess

 

[Burnsy2023]

Well who decides what's going to be useful and relevant to everyone? And why would you limit the learning at all? I'd be all for expanding the subjects needed to be learnt, not limiting them.

A test should have specified learning outcomes. Learning pointless information is by definition pointless. A citizen test should be about making sure someone fits the values of the UK and will integrate. The current test does not do this.

 

[Burnsy2023]

I think next year is the earliest for me to even try, I think Indefinite Leave To Remain is required first (I would need to somehow collect 5 years worth of payslips and P60's for that), then wait another 12 months, take ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Level 3 exam and then this Life In UK exam before forking out £800+ to begin process of becoming citizen. I would love to, but I have work to do, can't screw around with tests and schools for few months and it's not going to change much in my life.

I am entitled to take this test as I was born here but like you I see little benefit from such an expensive exercise. I should do it soon though.

 

[semi-pro waster]

16/24 (67% and 3 minutes 23 seconds) which isn't great but essentially I knew all I'd expect to know and the rest was (and almost certainly always will be) an irrelevance to me - I don't think it provides a good test of what you will be like as a citizen but then again like a lot of tests it isn't particularly important once you've passed it, you simply do the necessary to pass and then forget all about it.

 

[Ross1234]

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 9 out of 24 (38%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 27 seconds

WTF

 

[ElliorR]

A person who would do well on that test is most likely not someone you'd want to be stuck in a lift with.