Life in the UK Test

falipey

falipey

falipey

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Hi guys,

Anyone had to sit the life in the UK test before? It is the citizenship test people need to sit to get naturalised.

My housemate is sitting the test next week and she is in crazy practice mode. I did a test for a laugh and was quite difficult and seems a bit random:

http://uktestpass.co.uk/life-in-the-uk-test/1/

I scored 19 out of 24 but some of the questions seemed a bit odd! I like how there are questions about Eastenders and Coronation St in there. 18 out of 24 is the pass mark and even though you have 45 mins I did it in like 3 :)

How do you guys do?
 
22/24, 2 mins 50 and I didn't really have an issue with the questions, I thought they were extremely broad general knowledge for the most part.
 
Glaucus said:
16/24 failed.
What an utterly stupid and pointless test. Utter waste of money. Which **** came up with those questions.
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This is the problem when there is a clamour from the voting population to do something, regardless of validity. Rather than looking at objective, relevant measures such as skills or wealth, language etc, we instead end up with this kind of stupidity in our immigration process, and then the same electorate wonders why nothing changes...

I am generally pro immigration, but this kind of testing is just nonsense
 
Failed test 1, and got 21/24 on test two...

I actually didn't realise that councillors are elected annually, I thought is was every 3 years... obviously haven't been paying enough attention. Also didn't know that women are half the workforce (I chose 1/3), or that the UK population has been growing faster in recent years.

What a weird test though... I doubt that knowing any of the answers to those questions would actually make you a 'better' British citizen.

edit: now doing test 3... and just found out that 'John Constable' founded the modern police force. And had to lol at this question: "We shall fight them on the beaches’ is a famous quote from a speech by Queen Elizabeth I about the Spanish Armada. True/False".
 
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I did this last year. Found it very stupid. Housemate should have a proper read through of the book and will then generally be fine.

What I found particularly annoying was:

1) You have to give the wrong answer, if that's the answer in the book, even if you know better.

2) Lot of the dates are something you just need to know from the book. When women got the right to vote etc. The rough time is not ok because sometimes they'll give options which are 4 consecutive years.

If any specific questions, let me know.

Edit - oh and I used this for practice - http://www.theuktest.com/life-in-the-uk-test/1 - have almost 50 tests.
 
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