Do you deserve to live in the UK
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yello said:
They don't, its all about the money, they have to be seen to qualify applicants yet few people are actually aware of the qualification methods.
IMO the questions should include topics that involve real life scenario's eg:
- House Buying
- National Insurance/Tax levels and purposes
- Local Council/Government Structures (although this is confusing for council workers themselves)
- Modern History - WW1/2
- Modern Laws - Drinking ages, driving laws, highway codes etc
- NHS
- Basic Employment laws
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
11 out of 24 - 46%
I'd better move out.
I'd better move out.
Shrimp_Stu
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Shoeburyness
15 out of 24 - I'm out ......when do I have to go?? Not really that sad to be leaving Britain - not really Great anymore in my eyes.
But where do I go to.............New Zealand?
But where do I go to.............New Zealand?
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
and I am the boss of the Immigration Centre in Noodleytown.Noodley said:That's cos they have not had the benefit of a decent Scottish education like me
HJ
Cycling in Scotland
- Location
- Auld Reekie
Well I got 15 out of 24 (63%) and still failed... they'll be coming to deport me any day soon....
16 out of 24 in just over 24 minutes. I'm out.
BUT...I'm going to do something really silly and defend the test. People who want to go on construction sites take a similar test - for what's called a CSCS card. They study a book, which has perhaps 1000 question and answers, and they are asked, if I remember correctly, 50 questions. The 50 questions are fairly random - indeed I think the person in the booth next to you will be asked 50 different questions, but if you've spent the time studying the book you should get by.
In the case of the CSCS card the test questions are weighted according to your field - so Architects do 'Site Management' or something like that, while Electricians do 'Electrical Safety'. If you study the entire book you'll know a great deal of stuff that will add up to a far more comprehensive picture that you would have had without.
I don't know if the answers vary with the field - the answer to the question 'what do you do if you see someone attached to a blue cable, shaking, with smoke coming out of their ears' would presumably be - for the electricians - 'something clever with a bit of wood', but, for the designers 'scream for a gin and tonic before fainting'.
To go back to the test. I probably got the divorce question wrong. I do know that the Married Women's Property Act was passed sometime in the 1880s (it crops up in 'New Grub Street' by George Gissing) but I don't think it's a bad thing for new citizens to appreciate that women can divorce men, and have been able to do so for a very long time.
I think 'tso' is the Stationery Office
BUT...I'm going to do something really silly and defend the test. People who want to go on construction sites take a similar test - for what's called a CSCS card. They study a book, which has perhaps 1000 question and answers, and they are asked, if I remember correctly, 50 questions. The 50 questions are fairly random - indeed I think the person in the booth next to you will be asked 50 different questions, but if you've spent the time studying the book you should get by.
In the case of the CSCS card the test questions are weighted according to your field - so Architects do 'Site Management' or something like that, while Electricians do 'Electrical Safety'. If you study the entire book you'll know a great deal of stuff that will add up to a far more comprehensive picture that you would have had without.
I don't know if the answers vary with the field - the answer to the question 'what do you do if you see someone attached to a blue cable, shaking, with smoke coming out of their ears' would presumably be - for the electricians - 'something clever with a bit of wood', but, for the designers 'scream for a gin and tonic before fainting'.
To go back to the test. I probably got the divorce question wrong. I do know that the Married Women's Property Act was passed sometime in the 1880s (it crops up in 'New Grub Street' by George Gissing) but I don't think it's a bad thing for new citizens to appreciate that women can divorce men, and have been able to do so for a very long time.
I think 'tso' is the Stationery Office
Bugger - I'm in.
Q 16 is plain incorrect. You can search information from the last census on the ONS web site, amongst other places.
Some of the information may be kept secret for 100 years (though I'm not at all sure it is), but it's certainly plain wrong to say that it all is.
Q 16 is plain incorrect. You can search information from the last census on the ONS web site, amongst other places.
Some of the information may be kept secret for 100 years (though I'm not at all sure it is), but it's certainly plain wrong to say that it all is.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Bigtwin said:
I don't get it - how come someone who's obviously bright like you gets to stay and an idiot like me has had to go. I'm still waiting at terminal 5 - no-one will have me yet.
"hello, is that Robert Mugabe - got any vacancies me old mate?.....hello hello oh we seem to have been cut off"
