Is the British citizenship test getting too hard? Let’s see

Time to see if Ellie can pass the official British citizenship test!

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[oliviawolcott]

I feel like questions for life in UK should be something like "what side of the road do british people drive on?" "what are your rights as a citizen of the UK?" things like that.

[ElliottVeares]

What is worrying is, as a natural born citizen of the UK, I did not know the answer to a lot of these questions and I expect that is fairly common to!

[Helith]

I'm a Brit who became an Australian citizen and took the Aussie citizenship test. I'd have failed this British test, the questions are more like pub trivia questions. The Australian test was mainly questions about Australian government structure and the duties and rights expected of citizens with only a very few history questions included, and those were about major Aussie events such as the date of Federation, ANZAC Day or the date of the First Fleet landing etc

[Penpaper]

These are weird questions to ask for citizenship.

[rklrkl]

A lot of Life In The UK questions have little to do with modern day-to-day "life in the UK" and I feel like a lot of native Brits would fail the test if they didn't read the official test book first. In other words, the test is merely "how good are you at reading English and memorising obscure facts?".

I reckon that the test should be regularly taken by a test group of native Brits each year who have *not* read the test book and if the majority of them get a question wrong, then it should be dropped from the test (in priority order of most wrong to least wrong). That "test test" should also include some brand new questions that, if the majority get right, could be used to replace the ones that were dropped. This way, the stupidly obscure (and therefore useless) questions that most Brits can't answer will be weeded out.

[ells.xo.]

ive lived in england my whole life and i dont even think i could guess any of these questions

[kayew]

I'm British, and there were a few questions there I hadn't a clue about., in fact I think I failed. True, it's been a few decades since I left school, so I could be forgiven for not remembering the exact date the Magna Carta was signed, but why would anybody outside of London know or care how many boroughs there are, and I've never heard of the Mercury Music Prize either. Best of luck Ellie!

[michaelbowling]

Guess I better pack my bags and leave 😢 - Oh wait I was born here 🤔 - Bloody stupid questions.

[ctunnah]

Lived here 66 years (all my life), educated to a reasonably high level, but I failed. That said, I'm scottish and I found a lot of these questions England centric.

[Simon-zbfp]

These questions are so London centric. They were probably written by a Londoner. Having lived in Britain for 64 years I am having difficulty on the history questions. Love the tatoos.

[naomisaurus]

The most bizarre question I came up against was: How many ski centres are there in Scotland? (There are 5 by the way...bet you feel like more of a British citizen for knowing that!).
The life in the UK test needs rebranding to "how much of this book can you regurgitate?"

[Ravendarkwytch]

The scary thing is that I have never been outside of the UK and I have failed some of the mock citizenship tests online.

[matshjalmarsson]

Britain has four national dishes: Chicken Tikka Masala in England; Haggis in Scotland; Welsh Cawl in Wales; and Irish Stew in Ireland. But there's also many other traditional meals from the UK that get mentioned among the topic of Britain's national dish, such as the Full Breakfast, Shepherd's Pie and Sunday Roast.

[PeakTrans]

That was fun. And what a good accent Ellie has. I've known Italians who've been here 50 years who still retain a much stronger Italian accent.

[AnexoRialto]

You should give the citizenship test to a native born British citizen.

[Jae-byhf]

As a brit, I got like 4 right 😂 thank god I’m a citizen eh! Well done Ellie & good luck ❤

[mhystie]

I have been born and raised in Scotland my entire 50 years and I only got 9 right and some of those were guessed so well done Ellie x I clearly am not a British citizen based on this 🙄
Also, can I just add, we NEVER got taught the rhyme to learn the wives of Henry the eighth either 🤷‍♀️

[Yandarval]

WTH. These questions are ridiculous. Just the London authorities question. Why would anyone NOT living in London need to know that.

[zoeadams]

I don't know about the national dish, but I think right now the UK's favourite dish is the Chicken Tikka Masala.

Oh, McLeod is pronounced "Mc-loud" 😊

[tonycasey]

There should be a practical exam where they take you to a pub and are given a round to order. If you don't order the Guinness first on the list, you fail. If you don't rip the bag of crisps fully open for everyone at the table to share, you fail. If you don't cheer when somebody smashes a glass behind the bar, you fail.