Citizenship test.

[daibhidc]

Inspired by Radio 4's The Vote Now Show, I took the online practice Life In The UK Test, designed to test immigrants on such essential everyday knowledge as why the Hugeunots left France.

I scored 66%. I'll pack my bags tomorrow.

Comments

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

83%

And it said I passed. Hm... Can I have your comics?

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I got 83% too. Wrong on the biggest ethnic minority group and the length of time before the census data becomes public knowledge. We need to work out a tiebreaker to decide who gets the comics.

[shriker-tam.livejournal.com]

Nah - I got 91%, I'll take them :o)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Those were two of the ones I got wrong as well. I also got the exams wrong (and immediately after seeing the right answer thought "Oh, right. That'll be what that 'return of the eleven-plus' thing was about, then...") and my only excuse for failing to realise housing in Northern Ireland is provided by the Northern Ireland Housing is that I've been watching too much QI, and thought it looked like a trap...

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

I got 75% it says I get to stay. Some of those questions are stupid and irrelevant

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I think all of them might be, depending on where in the UK you're immigrating to.

Does an immigrant moving to London need to know how to get housing in Northern Ireland? No.

Does an immigrant moving to Edinburgh need to know the proper name for the CofE? Probably not.

Testing people for "British" knowledge is a bit like expecting all American immigrants to know the state bird of Alaska and the history of the Chicago Cubs.

[moustachios.livejournal.com]

75%, but I had to take wild guesses at half the questions.

Come to Canada! We get Doctor Who.