Saturday, August 15, 2009

Britishier Than Thou.

I've just taken the British Citizenship test online. On the plus side I passed with 19/25 which they say is 79% although it clearly isn't.

The downside is that it is a completely idiotic test, for example one of the questions is "How many children under 19 are there in the UK?":

a) 13 Million
b) 14 million
c) 15 million
d) 16 million

To which the only sensible answer is "What the hell does this have to do with being British?".

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9 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

There are two children under 19 in my house (both now asleep). Anything more than that would be a guesstimate.

The Paragnostic said...

Well, I just scored 12 out of 24, but then again quite a few of the questions were either badly phrased or on subjects I don't care about as a Briton.

Can I take the test for real and get deported out of Brownistan?

Soho Politico said...

Well, I would have passed if I'd got one more question right, so I suppose in my case the answer to the question is 'everything'. Just packing my bags now...

James Higham said...

I failed it miserably and am being deported next week.

Anonymous said...

I only got 9 out of 24. To be fair, it would have been 10, but that was because I missed seeing an option on one question rather than not knowing the answer.

Still, I fail to see the relevance. Perhaps people should start sending their scores in, and telling them where to shove it.

Anonymous said...

It is stupid. Good questions would be :-
Should women have to have a hijab with answers such as :-
1) No
2) Yes please deport me now.

Ross said...

"Can I take the test for real and get deported out of Brownistan?"

It would be easier just to deport Brown surely?

" I failed it miserably and am being deported next week."

&

"I would have passed if I'd got one more question right"

&

"I only got 9 out of 24. To be fair, it would have been 10"

I've got a very unBritish readership!

rob said...

"In which TWO of the following places does the European Parliament meet?"

??? And the Britishness link is...?

Ross said...

Good point.