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Jul 27th 2011, 1:49 pm

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Re: What a complete waste of time -Citizenship Test

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I reckon its a sign from the Valley, in which case Chinese is more likely .....

Is that Brisbane?

Jul 27th 2011, 1:53 pm

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I reckon its a sign from the Valley, in which case Chinese is more likely .....

That was my thinking, I can't see Jack Nicholson starring in a movie called JapaneseTown

Jul 27th 2011, 1:54 pm

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Is that Brisbane?

Yup

Jul 27th 2011, 1:56 pm

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Yup

My money is still on Japanese BUT as it happens, most chinese and japanese characters are the same, just pronounced differently. Some are different obviously.

Don't ask me how I know.

Jul 27th 2011, 1:58 pm

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My money is still on Japanese BUT as it happens, most chinese and japanese characters are the same, just pronounced differently. Some are different obviously.

Don't ask me how I know.

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Jul 27th 2011, 7:09 pm

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http://www.news.com.au/national/new-...-1226103082543

You might be the only one thinking it was way too easy. Check out the headlines above

Barney

Jul 27th 2011, 9:04 pm

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Re: What a complete waste of time -Citizenship Test

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That was my thinking, I can't see Jack Nicholson starring in a movie called JapaneseTown

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Is that Brisbane?

Yep, Fortitude Valley, has a reputation for various things, but is also hope to Brisbane's Chinatown

Jul 27th 2011, 9:46 pm

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Re: What a complete waste of time -Citizenship Test

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http://www.news.com.au/national/new-...-1226103082543

You might be the only one thinking it was way too easy. Check out the headlines above

Barney

"too hard" They're having a laugh.

Jul 27th 2011, 10:38 pm

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Re: What a complete waste of time -Citizenship Test

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http://www.news.com.au/national/new-...-1226103082543

You might be the only one thinking it was way too easy. Check out the headlines above

Barney

The article sort of shoots itself in the foot. It suggests that it's hard for non-native-English speakers but also says that the Chinese are more successful than kiwis.

More like some applicants can't be arsed.

It reminds me of when I started my own company. We used to get a lot of job candidates who were a waste of time and as we were still a very small company it used to waste the time of the few employees we had. I designed a simple test that eliminated 80% of people straight away.

If someone put programming on their CV you'd expect them to be able to write a simple program to convert °C to °F. Don't know if it's got any better but there were a lot of chancers out there back then.

Jul 27th 2011, 10:41 pm

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Yep, Fortitude Valley, has a reputation for various things, but is also hope to Brisbane's Chinatown

Sunnybank would rival it I would imagine ... Some top nosh there

Jul 28th 2011, 12:58 am

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Re: What a complete waste of time -Citizenship Test

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"too hard" They're having a laugh.

To be fair I can see why the readers of The Daily Telecrap might find it too hard.

If the Teachers Union also finds the test "too hard" then can I just say, God help this country!

Jul 28th 2011, 1:01 am

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One family had brought along a friend to translate for them as none of them spoke English at all and the citizenship chap was rather concerned about how they were going to take the test.......

so in an English speaking country they are worried about taking a test...in English? such integration.

If I was even at the stage of applying to be a citizen of any country, I would have learned the language sufficiently to at least have a go at the test, and not bring an interpreter.

Isnt it 2 years as a perm res before you can apply for citizenship. a lot can be learned in 2 years.

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Jul 28th 2011, 1:08 am

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so in an English speaking country they are worried about taking a test...in English? such integration.

If I was even at the stage of applying to be a citizin of any country, I would have learned the language sufficiently to at least have a go at the test, and not bring an interpreter.

Isnt it 2 years as a perm res before you can apply for citizenship. a lot can be learned in 2 years.

I think it's 4 years now. (Although I don't think all 4 years has to be as a PR).

Jul 28th 2011, 2:09 am

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Re: What a complete waste of time -Citizenship Test

I'm having more trouble getting the photos certified than spending time worrying about the test

Jul 28th 2011, 12:14 pm

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I'm having more trouble getting the photos certified than spending time worrying about the test

I commented when we did our test - a few years back - it was an english test plain and simple. The questions are not worded in simple english, there is some complicated language structure it is absolutely clear that its a test of english comprehension.

It is no better than when they used to make the people off the boats in the 50's under white australia policy sit an exam in english and had no printing of the questionnaire in any other language.

the questions are a joke they are not meaningful in any sense. I do now however know that the national flower of austlralia is a wattle or some such perhaps.