Do you deserve to live in the UK

[Chuffy]

Well I failed and its not the first time I have taken it! the good news is My wife took hers last spring and passed (second time around) so I can stay even if not a citizen!

Its a monumental money spinner though,

Just in the folkestone test centre (apparently a relatively small one) They have 15 candidates paying £35 a pop taking the test every 1.5 hours with 8 sittings a day (they are constantly booked up 2-3 weeks in advance). There is only 2 members of staff at the centre which must turnover around £1,000,000 a year.

Plus there is the book which is a compulsory £12.99 to and is 'updated' every 6 months to ensure you cant buy them second hand.

Plus there is the application fee (non refundable if its rejected) which is approx £950

Immigration is a money spinner!

No, seriously? That piece of crap is for real?
Gordon Bennet....

 

[Sittingduck]

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 11 out of 24 (46%)

Time taken: 05 minutes 28 seconds


Does this mean I have to pack my bags and getthef*ck out?

 

[marinyork]

No, seriously? That piece of crap is for real?
Gordon BennetBrown....

Yeah I was surprised at £950 deposit/fee. That's a lot of money.

 

[jonesy]

Is this real??

What an odd collection of questions- some requiring a quite unnecessary level of precision. Are we really expected to know by heart how many children there are to the nearest million? Or whether the limit to the number of working hours per week for children is 10 or 12? And I'd agree with marinyork- far too many about Europe, again requiring far more precision than is really necessary. Please someone tell me this is a parody site, set up by Euro sceptics...

 

[Chuffy]

Is this real??

What an odd collection of questions- some requiring a quite unnecessary level of precision. Are we really expected to know by heart how many children there are to the nearest million? Or whether the limit to the number of working hours per week for children is 10 or 12? And I'd agree with marinyork- far too many about Europe, again requiring far more precision than is really necessary. Please someone tell me this is a parody site, set up by Euro sceptics...

That crossed my mind...
It tests nothing, except your ability to memorise pointless facts that no-one British actually knows.

 

[mad al]

Well I'm UK born & bred and scored 10, so I guess they don't want us no more as we ain't PC

forgot to add that they, whoever they are can kiss me where the sun don't shine!!!!!!!

 

[karen.488walker]

I think I'll become Jedi. If it got to 50% in the census with me, I don't think they'd dare dispute it. In anycase if I became Muslim you could introduce back in all sorts of traditions. Not sure I'm keen on four wives. Then again a neighbouring country with 100% Muslim population would terrify the French and Germans, perhaps it is a good idea.

Now I'm keen on becoming a Jedi. Wanted to name our son Luke Sky and Daughter Anna Kinsky (see surname) it never happened but it would have been funny.

 

[Wigsie]

It is real, the citizenship test contains the most ridiculous questions you can imagine... Nothing really valid with regard to actually living in the UK.

What did the majority of irish immigrants do when they started to settle in the UK and what role in government does a whip have (I am sure there is more than 1) were a couple she answered.

 

[Noodley]

...pointless facts that no-one British actually knows.

ahem,

 

[Chuffy]

It is real, the citizenship test contains the most ridiculous questions you can imagine... Nothing really valid with regard to actually living in the UK.

What did the majority of irish immigrants do when they started to settle in the UK and what role in government does a whip have (I am sure there is more than 1) were a couple she answered.

The sheer, inexplicable, stupid pointlessness of it scares the hell out of me. I'd only let in people who asked 'what's the 'king point of this?'

And you Wigsie.

 

[redjedi]

Now I'm keen on becoming a Jedi. Wanted to name our son Luke Sky and Daughter Anna Kinsky (see surname) it never happened but it would have been funny.

Only 10 for me

You can adopt me if you want, my names Luke, and I don't mind changing my middle name, if I get to stay in the country.

I don't really fancy marrying Noodley

 

[Chuffy]

ahem,

You don't count. Freak.

Perhaps we could re-run the test and use a variation of it to boot out various fools, morons and Mail readers?

Oh and lanky haggis eaters who spend too long doing pub quizzes.

 

[vernon]

I failed with 17 correct answers.

I might not be able to return from my holidays unlike last year when I wasn't allowed to leave the UK by the gits at the gates (TM) at Leeds Bradford airport.

 

[Wigsie]

The sheer, inexplicable, stupid pointlessness of it scares the hell out of me. I'd only let in people who asked 'what's the 'king point of this?'

And you Wigsie.

You have to take your hat off to them just for the money aspect (yes I am obsessed) they are making At least £200,000,000 a year just off people taking these tests!

I am thinking of trying to get run a test centre as a franchise!

 

[swee'pea99]

"In which year did married women get the right to divorce their husband?"

FFS.