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Can you Pass the UK citizenship test?

I started taking it, but missed a couple half-way and gave up. Does this mean I can be an honorary citizen of France?
 
Rat said:
You did not. And I did worse on that one. I have no idea how many hours a 14-year-old can do a paper round for in a week or anything like that, and I have no expectation that the most honest and genuine immigrant could answer questions of that type unless there were some sort of guide book that gives them the specific answers being looked for, which would seem to defeat the whole purpose.
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That's exactly what there is. Mrs Fraggles had to take the test a few years back.

In fairness, it would be a bit hard to take a test if you didn't know what material was being tested.

In the end though the test was pointless rote memorisation, just another way to make money and make the immigration process needlessly more difficult.
 
Giz said:
I don't know that knowing how to get to the post office makes you a better citizen.
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I didn't say it did.

OTOH, believing in "equality under the law", "representative democracy", etc might be rather important, no?
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Is that what you meant by "values"? How would you propose this was tested for?
 
angrysoba said:
I am pretty sure that I value some things that many other British people don't and that I place a lower value on other things that are popular in Britain. Pop Idol, for example.
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Given that Pop Idol last aired 11 years ago, I suspect that it's not that large a proportion of British people who value it particularly highly.
 
I got 20/24. I did have a brain fart on one question. Guessed a few others. But if that is the UK citizenship questionnaire then someone needs to have a medical to see if they are of sound mine.
 
arthwollipot said:
I'm just going to leave this here: this is not the UK citizenship test.

Neither is this, though it appears to be closer to an actual citizenship test. I got 14.5 out of 24.
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Is that for real? I gave up when I got the question "Saving energy is one of the fundamental values of British life.", to which I would have to answer true or false. I also got the ungrammatical question "How is BBC funded", which should have a "the" in there of course. None of the four multiple choice answers offered are correct (funded by the state, funded by multinational investment, funded by advertisement, funded privately). One further click gave me the question "When did the First World War I ended?" (sic). Either this site is intended as a joke I don't get, or it's a scam of some kind.
 
arthwollipot said:
Neither is this, though it appears to be closer to an actual citizenship test. I got 14.5 out of 24.
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I did 3 questions, then it listed "Q0" with no text of any kind, then it went back to the beginning with the answers I'd already given already filled in. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I figured this was some kind of intelligence test and gave up. I hope that means I can retain my citizenship.
 
Childlike Empress said:
as a German I deliberately denied the stuff about the German King to make me appear more adoptable. ;)
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Sorry, but that's the wrong answer. The German origins of the Royal family are a meme that's often played for humour in Britain as exemplified by Blackadder:

[It's 1917. Captain Blackadder is interrogating Captain Darling because he is pretending to suspect him as a German spy]

Captain Darling: I'm as British as Queen Victoria.
Captain Blackadder: So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German.
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Last of the Fraggles said:
That's exactly what there is. Mrs Fraggles had to take the test a few years back.

In fairness, it would be a bit hard to take a test if you didn't know what material was being tested.

In the end though the test was pointless rote memorisation, just another way to make money and make the immigration process needlessly more difficult.
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That is also the general impression I've gained from reading about such tests used in several European countries. Except that I don't think it's got anything to with making money, only with appeasing the anti-immigration part of the electorate. The pattern seems to be that there's basically a book you have to memorize, filled with pointless factoids, most of them unknown or uninteresting to the local population (knowing the lyrics to the national anthem seems a recurring favourite). Then there is a short test to see how many of those factoids you managed to remember. Once having passed the test, you will of course immediately forget all of that stuff.
 
Damien Evans said:
You'd love the Australian one. It asks you what Sir Donald Bradman's batting average was.
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That would be quite a good English one too. He was bowled out for a duck in his last innings to deny him an average of 100 by an Englishman.

Of course, when we tell the story in England, we omit the fact that this was the first innings of the match and Bradman was denied a chance to improve things in the second innings because England collapsed to an innings defeat (I only found that out myself just now while verifying the story).
 
lionking said:
Exactly the same for me! Magistrates in Australia are very well paid and well qualified.
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That's fair enough then but I'm a little surprised that so many UKians are unaware of the role of magistrate.

Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I figured this was some kind of intelligence test and gave up. I hope that means I can retain my citizenship.
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Of course. In fact it makes you rather overqualified.
 
AAH yes, the lay magistrate. Curse of the advocate who is on piece rates and wants to get away from court as fast as possible but finds these well intentioned but sometimes bumbling amateurs crawling through the days list as though time did not matter. Very English.

There were some questions missing, I thought:

1 in defence of the empire, was the castration and torture of suspected Mau Mau 'terrorists' (a) justified (b) deplorable (c) best covered up?

2 is the drunken, violent and loutish behaviour of a night out in a British town centre (a) just a little harmless fun or (b) a reason to reconsider your decision to migrate?

3 with your knowledge of British political culture, do you expect a thorough, prompt and open inquiry into historic allegations of pedophilia and sex abuse among the political class (a) yes or (b) no [hint - (a) is incorrect]

4 how many highly trained police detectives does it take to investigate an incident in which a higher class person allegedly called a lower class person a 'pleb'. Is it (a) one (b) none at all since it's not that important or (c) thirty?

5 the British police are the finest in the world, especially their trained marksmen who have never been known to gun down any innocent people - true or false

6 the English players in the Barclays Premier league, the finest league in the world, are noted for which two of these qualities (a) thuggishness (b) drunken criminality

7 what does Prince Edward call his mother's subjects (a) citizens (b) people (c) grockles?

8 define 'flummery' and explain its significance in British public life in not less than four thousand words using perfect English grammar and spelling (this question MUST be answered correctly in order to pass the overall test).

9 Britons are rightly proud of their glorious past and entitled to expect appropriate deference from everyone else.

10 no, that was not a question.
 
jeremyp said:
Sorry, but that's the wrong answer. The German origins of the Royal family are a meme that's often played for humour in Britain as exemplified by Blackadder:
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Yeah, but they didn't really want you to know about those roots, did they? I wasn't just thinking about citizenship. ;)
 
anglolawyer said:
AAH yes, the lay magistrate. Curse of the advocate who is on piece rates and wants to get away from court as fast as possible but finds these well intentioned but sometimes bumbling amateurs crawling through the days list as though time did not matter. Very English.
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Ah, I see. UK Magistrates=Australian Justices of the Peace.

Although (obviously) not a lawyer, I worked for the Victorian Justice Department, and Victoria Police, and share this opinion of JPs.
 
24/24 on this test, but as has been said it's not the citizenship test.
 
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