Can you pass the UK citizenship test?

No I didn't pass. I scored 14. I hope they send me somewhere warm and sunny when they deport me !

I am always so relieved when my students (who are learning English) pass this test as they really do have to work very hard indeed to assimilate so much information. I think the test actually benefits no-one and relies mostly on students having a good memory. By contrast the syllabus I've devised to teach my students is a very pragmatic one; it covers housing, banking, schooling, health, driving - and other things that help people to become a part of the local community.

17/20, 85%

Same here. Hadn't even answered the first question and it said I'd scored 20/20! I have done a few of these tests though,over the last year. My DP is from Ethiopia and has lived here for quite a few years and is thinking of taking the test. So he has been doing some online practice ones,coached by me! The ones we did were out of 24. He got an average score of about 15 or 16,while my average was 23.

I only got 11 off to the tower

14 here. Disappointed with that as I consider myself thoroughly British and reasonably well educated. However I too think some of the questions inappropriate for the purposes, and would like to see more emphasis on practical issues, and modern life here.

I'll have a go at it in a minute and, if I'm not too embarrassed, I'll post my results here later.

At the House of History in Bonn, there is an opportunity to do the German Citizenship test. I got full marks, but was disappointed I wasn't handed a German passport there and then!!!

Many of my friends are now applying for German citizenship. One had a date for the citizenship test, but it was cancelled due to lack of applicants, so she will now have to wait till February!

The questions are really easy. And I can answer more than my colleagues can. After all, I've lived in the country nearly 40 years now, through the Berlin Wall coming down and everything. They were still in Kindergarten when that happened, and some of them have no grasp of even basic history.

Right. I've done it and got 14/20. The mistakes were due to (a) me not being a UK resident and (b) The English education system whereby you are very limited as to which periods you cover in history - even at A level.

85% with some lucky guesses, but I thought some of the questions irrelevant. I knew about the architecture of St Pancras, for example, but whyever would or should a non Brit? What relevance does it have to becoming a British citizen? Same goes for some of the other questions too.

I only got 13 but am going to keep doing it until I get a result I am happy with.

Snap, tiggypiro

only 13 for me, looking for my passport to leave the country,

History is not good for me.

I only scored 65%. Some of these questions are ridiculous in that they have no bearing on what a citizen of the UK needs to know today. Architecture? English history? What information about a person is this test meant to collect?

How about this for an alternative.
The UK is a union of which countries?

Any other suggestions?

20/20. (smug emoticon) When do I get my citizenship certificate?

should rename it the English Citizenship test

We could make up our own. What questions would you ask? I'd start with JahH's "The UK is a union of which countries?" and follow it with questions about how laws are made and administered in the UK, that is by elected members of Parliament, judges, police (not made by edict of the Queen as absolute monarch, as some people from other countries believe)

13 for me. I knew the historical ones but not the modern ones

My French dil took it in Scotland and passed with flying colours. It was v Scotland-oriented and she told them they should be more inclusive with their questions and have more questions about the rest of the UK.

75% but guessed some

19/20, so I can probably stay here!

Totally agree with you, Eloethan. I got 18/20, purely by guessing based on general knowledge. Am not British.

I keep getting 100% Brilliant as well - without doing it.

If only all my exams had been so easy

19/20 - 95%

I didn't know that there are 15 people on a Scottish jury!

I agree most of it it is irrelevant and no indication of a knowledge of our country today and what citizenship entails.

Elegran i like that game. I suggest the next question should be when do we hold the pancake races ?

95% Henry Vlll and Wales sorry to Welsh grans.