Hi we are booked in to do our citizenship test next week, have been reading book ect but just wondered if any one has any tips or comments on the test please!!

If you have read the booklet it is a doddle, just be careful of the rights / duties section as fail any of those and you fail outright. I got 100% in 4 minutes flat.

Agree with Worzel, it's easy-peasy (japanesey as my son would say). Just read the book - it's quite interesting anyway - and you'll walk it.

Bloody show off - I got 95%...

If you want a bit of fun whilst checking you know your stuff, have a go at these tests. I did them and was having races with myself to see how fast I could get them all right. They are not the exact questions you'll get but they're made up from the booklet so it's a good test of your knowledge.

I feel vindicated now.

I got 100% and answered in 2min 37 seconds....

OK, so one of the questions was:

Q. Becoming an Australian citizen means that you have which right?

I said "The right to live in Australia, provided you remain of good character" whereas apparently the correct answer is:

"The right to live in Australia".

Bit confused about that one because every so often you hear these stories of people convicted of fairly serious crimes being deported elsewhere on release from prison, even though they have lived in Australia since they were children sometimes and are citizens.



Hmmm, I guess the citizenship is revoked first....that would explain the answer.

The infamous Brit pedophile who was recently deported hadn't actually take up citizenship which gave the government here the "green light" to deport him.

Some of the questions in the test can come across as a bit ambiguous. I guess remaining here whilst you remain of good character only applies to permanent residents.

Citizenship cannot be revoked unless you lied or committed fraud to obtain your citizenship. I think the only way for the government to revoke citizenship would be an act of parliament. The people you mention were not citizens.

It can be revoked, if the crime for which the conviction was made happened prior to the person becoming a citizen. I'm sure this set of circumstances is very rare however.

I got 95% on the day but I've now taken the online test (www.aussietest.com) three times (here at work - different questions each time) and my fastest result was obtained in 2 minutes 10 seconds (none of them took more than 2.5 minutes) and I scored 100% on all of them.

It is luck of the draw though as to whether or not you get a question on the day (as I did) where the answer simply escapes you, but you know it (realisation occurs after the test).

I guess what I am saying is that it's not hard.

Thanks for that