Could you be a British citizen?

[classical_hero]

So efficiency is not one of the core values civil service. I am not a citizen of the UK since I did not know how to pay my council bills. Who pays them in 10 instalments? Surely you should be able to do it monthly, but over here we pay quarterly.
Of course I never knew who run the Jobcentre. Like I would need to know that, unless they want me on welfare, which I thought the whole point of becoming a citizen is that you already have a job. Surely it would be more to know such stuff ass who was the fist Premier league champions, or when did England regain the ashes. Stuff that is important, not the civic duty rubbish that most people don't care for.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

You pay 10 instalments monthly and have 2 months off.

 

[emzie]

The public phone question seemed odd.

Got a 6/10. Thanks to my mom's birth, it doesn't matter.

 

[Virote_Considon]

90% Correct - I passed.

The only one I got wrong was the civil service question (I refuse to believe they place any importance on "Neutrality". I further refuse to believe their importance isn't centred upon "Favouritism").

 

[theskibum]

I got 50% and failed, but I am an American, so it is excusable.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I got 90%. I guess them all, and the civil service question is the only one I got wrong.

 

[Silurian]

Ten instalments monthly for council tax allows the council to spend it all before the end of the year. If they have too big a surplus at the end of the year they will not get the same amount of money to spend. They also know what they need for the next year because they are not waiting for people a few weeks late paying.

 

[stormerne]

9/10
British expat

 

[uat2d]

2/10 in 1 minute

I've never been in the UK and I was in a hurry to go to the bathroom

 

[classical_hero]

90% Correct - I passed.

The only one I got wrong was the civil service question (I refuse to believe they place any importance on "Neutrality". I further refuse to believe their importance isn't centred upon "Favouritism").

I think they meant in theory, not in practice. In theory it should be 3 of those factors, but of course in the real world doing what your current bosses want, is vital in keeping your job in the civil service. That often means not doing your job properly.

 

[Arakhor]

80% in 1 min 46 secs, mainly because I expected our civil service to be efficient rather than professional.

 

[holy king]

50% and no, i'm unfit.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

I failed, with 7/10. Weirdly, enough, I correctly guessed the area that Geordie is spoken in.

 

[Arakhor]

That's hardly weird. It's a flat 25% chance, even if you've never heard some of our more eye-watering accents.

 

[bhsup]

Candidate : Guest Total Marks : 70%
Date : 26-10-2011 Correct Answers : 7
No of Questions : 10 Wrongly Answered : 3
Duration : 20 Minutes Unanswered : 0
Result : Failed Time Taken : 0:1:28

I missed a question about the job centre, the Geordi dialect, and some company going somewhere for workers. All in all, I don't think it's bad for a cousin across the pond. But I still failed.

 

[_random_]

I got 30%. Why would I want to move to the UK anyway? USA #1

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Well there is the 100 times less likely to be shot dead thing...

 

[Quackers]

I passed with 90%.

Weird question like "where did the textile industry send agents to find workers" - WTH?
I got that wrong

and in 133 seconds

 

[Marla_Singer]

LOL! How ugly!

I got 90%, the exam is passed. I could be a Brit.
What a nightmare for a Frenchie like me.

Honnestly, I didn't expect to score so high. I widely answered by guess. And in the end, it turns out stuff in Britain doesn't work really differently from stuff in France.

 

[ZeletDude]

I got 30%.. :\