British Citizenship Tests - Would You Pass?

GrammarGrandma

No, because I wouldn't be able to answer any of the sport questions! I was born in the UK to British parents but have no interest in sport. How would it make me more of a citizen if I did?

You'd have known the answer in the test I just did 🙂

92% I couldn't remember when Habeas Corpus was introduced!
Can anyone?

No, because I wouldn't be able to answer any of the sport questions! I was born in the UK to British parents but have no interest in sport. How would it make me more of a citizen if I did?

First question on a sample test paper:

'What is not a part of the UK's constitutional structure?'

Multiple choice - one answer was Parliment (sic) which I was tempted to tick because there is no such body, but knew I'd fail if I did!
😁

Nancat

I did a test online, scored 100%. questions included history, culture, traditions, values, national moral framework and laws. Nothing in the test were difficult, obscure or "trick questions", just a check that people wanting to come to live in the UK understand and respect our culture and values. It's a pity that it was not introduced years ago.

Well done - I though some of the questions were not those the average Brit would be able to answer though.

It has been around quite a while. In 2000, I remember being stopped in a Peterborough street by an earnest Chinese gentleman who asked where he could get a cream tea; I directed him to John Lewis, only to see him take out a questionnaire to write it down. Then the penny dropped <lol>

BlueBelle

Just done one and I m packing my bags as we speak not sure where I ll go though

Don't try Australia, their test is tougher still!

BlueBelle

At the golf course JackyB

😂😂😂

I doubt many British-born natives could answer that one. (I'll ask DS.)

A young man from the far east who worked for my husband had to take the test, there were questions about Dickens. Some of us may have read this at school but I doubt that most of the British population would know much detail - or whether it would stand a immigrant in good stead for his new life here.

I took this test 20 years ago, when it was a brand new 'thing'. I studied the sample questions and passed (also former American), but the only one I got wrong was "What would you call someone from Tyne and Wear?" All I knew was that Geordie was a person from Newcastle and hadn't heard of Tyne and Wear, so got that wrong. I did enjoy the new citizen ceremony.

If the British test is anything like the Danish one, then no, I would probably fail miserably.

Why? Because I know nothing about football or football players. My interests are classical music and ballet, theatre in general and literature. Not things that crop up in citizenship tests.

I did a test online, scored 100%. questions included history, culture, traditions, values, national moral framework and laws. Nothing in the test were difficult, obscure or "trick questions", just a check that people wanting to come to live in the UK understand and respect our culture and values. It's a pity that it was not introduced years ago.

BlueBelle if you happen find a country to go that’s governed by common sense then please let me know and I’ll come and join you!

A very poor 71% on the one I tried. I’m sure I’d be a much better citizen if only I knew when the Battle of Agincourt took place 🤦‍♀️ They seemed mostly pretty ridiculous and irrelevant questions to me!

I doubt I would pass this government version of Trivia but then maybe the Royals wouldn't pass either.

I've just done one of the mocks and at least half of them I had no idea about. Historical, science history, political history... Stuff we didn't do at school and I haven't read about. How does cramming all that stuff tell anyone you're going to be a good citizen? Or is the idea of it just to exclude as many people as possible? It would make more sense to ask for references from two unrelated British neighbors that you're pleasant to live near.

I haven't clue as I dont know what are the questions.

I don't know anything about sport or movies, or modern pop music, so I guess I'd not get my citizenship.

Well, I can stay, but note to self: brush up on Irish history

JackyB

So I've just done a test and I got three wrong. (One because I didn't understand the question. I thought it was oddly worded)

And there was a sporting question: "Where did golf start?"

Was it in Scotland, on the links?

I got 75% right, and I’m kicking myself for the ones I got wrong.

Just done one and I m packing my bags as we speak not sure where I ll go though

At the golf course JackyB

Got them all right. Before such a test everyone expecting to live here should speak and understand the language and means to support themselves in the work market.

So I've just done a test and I got three wrong. (One because I didn't understand the question. I thought it was oddly worded)

And there was a sporting question: "Where did golf start?"

When I applied for German nationality I was told I didn't need to take the test because I was over 60! I had looked at some sample tests when they first became a thing, though, and did better than some of my colleagues at work, simply because they were much younger and I had lived through more German history than them, notably the fall of the Berlin wall and also, as a churchgoer, I knew all about the various Bank Holidays. I was never quite sure about some of the constitutional points, but they were easily learned.

I would be interested to see how I would do in a British citizenship test. Having not lived there for so long now, I might not be quite up to date on some cultural topics, and definitely not sport (is that even part of the test?)