I have just taken the UK Citizenship practice test, sight unseen, and I failed. 14/24 from mostly cruising by on general knowledge. Maybe with a thorough perusal of the study guide, I would be allowed to stay, but I'm not sure how my ability to memorise some truly niggly multiple choice questions would make me a better citizen.
E.g. children aged 13-16 can only work for 12 hours a week. The other option given was 10. An awful lot of the questions were of this nature and to do with benefit-eligibility. What ever can they be driving at?!
I did the Guardian History one yesterday and passed (phew!). I have a degree in History and it's been a lifelong passion etc. but it jumped between topics like Robert Walpole and when the Welsh were first brought under the English legal code, which boggled me. There was also the semantics one, delineating the difference between Britain and Great Britain (I saw it coming and I still got it wrong).
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Date: 2012-07-06 03:26 pm (UTC)E.g. children aged 13-16 can only work for 12 hours a week. The other option given was 10. An awful lot of the questions were of this nature and to do with benefit-eligibility. What ever can they be driving at?!
I did the Guardian History one yesterday and passed (phew!). I have a degree in History and it's been a lifelong passion etc. but it jumped between topics like Robert Walpole and when the Welsh were first brought under the English legal code, which boggled me. There was also the semantics one, delineating the difference between Britain and Great Britain (I saw it coming and I still got it wrong).