Could you be a British citizen?

[7ronin]

Not British. Passed. Missed Council Tax and Job Centre.

 

[_random_]

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

I have never been shot dead, neither have any of my currently living friends, so I'm not convinced it's that much of a threat.

 

[woody60707]

Passed with 80% Guessed on 50% of them.

Is this the same crap that pops up in the US with these silly little test.?

 

[Arwon]

8/10.

Guess I can come in and ruin Britain's way of life now.

 

[Winner]

70%. Failed because I refused to answer "Eastern Europe" in the last question. I am going to sue, since the question is biased and racist.

(not that I would ever apply for British citizenship)

 

[Yeekim]

1) Passed with 80%. Got the textile workers and council tax things wrong. Lot of educated guesses.
2) You still have payphones?
3) You have to know c**p like that to become a British citizen (seriously, WTH?!) and they are whining about our citizenship tests?

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

80% and I have only been in England for 2 days when I was 14. I obviously didn't know the answers, I chose the most reasonable one.

 

[nivi]

Failed with 70.

Are there really 20 minutes to answer 10 simple enough questions?

 

[classical_hero]

70%. Failed because I refused to answer "Eastern Europe" in the last question. I am going to sue, since the question is biased and racist.

(not that I would ever apply for British citizenship)

You're just in denial.

 

[Tahuti]

70% percent, and failed? WTH?

EDIT: It reminds me of how the Dutch citizenship tests are also too demanding and that few natural born Dutchmen would be Dutch citizens if they would have to fill in the test. It is quite ridiculous really.

 

[Camikaze]

Well, I'm here complaining about the test, so I guess yes? /jk

Seemed some pretty weird questions. What office do unemployment benefits (or something) come under? Does it matter?

 

[anandus]

Here in the Netherlands is exactly the same thing also a test (which one can try out online) and most Dutch citizens would fail. Miserably.
Oh, and I failed the British sample test, 6 right, 4 wrong.

70%. Failed because I refused to answer "Eastern Europe" in the last question. I am going to sue, since the question is biased and racist.

Why do you find it biased and racist? By far the most immigrants do come from Eastern Europe.
(Or am I understanding it wrong? Do you mean the generalisation itself?)

 

[really]

10/10

I remember looking at the handbook for the test when I lived in the UK and not doing as well. There were questions about long dead kings, the working of the courts and stuff like that.

The official name is the Life in the UK test
Here is another quiz from the BBC from a few years ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4099770.stm
I only got 7/14 on this one.

Question 8
Life in the UK explains what to do if you spill someone's pint in the pub (we're not making this up). What, according to the book, usually happens next?

A: You would offer to buy the person another pint

B: You would offer to dry their wet shirt with your own

C: You may need to prepare for a fight in the car park

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

I thought about this before answering and reasoned that efficiency would require that they don't serve rural or remote areas which didn't sound correct.

 

[Masada]

Seemed some pretty weird questions. What office do unemployment benefits (or something) come under? Does it matter?

Yes, all immigrants are there to abuse the welfare system obviously.

 

[GinandTonic]

100% Guessed the jobcentre dpt since they keep reorganising these types of things.

Perhaps because I've had family in the civil service but the neutrality and professionalism as core values seems obvious and something of a key building block of the whole political system. Rather why people have been so appalled by some of the recent gov's attempts at the power grab of the "bonfire of the quangos". The whole point about the arms-length policy bodies like the human fertilisation and embryology authority or the advisory council on the misuse of drugs is that they advise on policy which the civil service doesnt do. When the tories say they are taking these powers into whitehall, they mean taking direct control of them. The civil service in whitehall wont get involved in potentially partisan policy, so these policies are being grabbed by the ministers in whitehall.

Perhaps people not understanding is why "the bonfire of the quangos" played so well to the tabloid readers and caused the civil servants to have their quiet, impartial and rather english version of a hissy fit, which constitutes raising a Sir Humphry-ish eyebrow in the presence of journalists.

 

[imperialman]

Failed with 70.

Are there really 20 minutes to answer 10 simple enough questions?

Nope, that's just a sample of the test.

 

[Arakhor]

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.

You're French. We've been fighting each other for hundreds of years, so chances are, we do things rather similarly, particularly since we're only 26 miles apart at the nearest point.

 

[Quackers]

Maybe you do Arakhor, I live a strictly Anglo-Brythonic way of life

 

[imperialman]

You're French. We've been fighting each other for hundreds of years, so chances are, we do things rather similarly, particularly since we're only 26 miles apart at the nearest point.

You sir have been charged with aiding the revolutionary forces of the French devil!

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

Passed with 80%