Okay, I have had 16 months to learn everything in the book for the citizenship test, and now they have given me 2 weeks notice!!!:curse:

One week has already gone by and on Monday 10th September I have the test.

Has anyone (and I am sure there are many) who have done it and can remember how hard/questions/answers which may assist my husband and I.

Try this out
http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/

Unless your husband is a drooling idiot, he won't have a problem.

Thanks, I have already answered some of the questions on the link and fortuanatly my husband is not an idiot, but is busy renovating my kitchen. My sons anticipate that I will pass no problem and husband will scrape a pass.

When we went to do ours, I asked what the pass mark was, the answer I got was 'it depends' Depends on what I ask, 'depends on the questions you get wrong' We passed so I guess we answered the right ones correctly. Wonder how many Canadians know all this stuff?

The citizenship court we went to was in a dowdy run down building in a strip mall. Not quite the salubrious surroundings we were expecting. When they take you in, you are seated well away from any other family taking the test and each candidate is spaced one seat apart.

Its a breeze, study the book and you should have no problem. You'll have to get OH out of the kitchen though to do his homework!

Look, my son, who is a drooling idiot (soon to graduate in philosophy from Queen's) pulled it off. Kitchen restorers should have no problems in comparison to that.

Have ages before we can do the test but where do you get the books from???

If we ever get PR by the time we apply for citizenship we wont have to take the test as we will be tooo old!

They are sent to you when you apply for citizenship.

There are some questions which are an automatic fail if you get them wrong. If memory serves they are the questions about government and your rights as a Canadian Citizen.

GOOD LUCK

Forgot to say - if (in the unlikely event) that you do fail you can appeal to a judge

All the best

The test is a doddle. It consists of 20 multiple choice questions, drawn from a pool of questions. The pass mark is 12 but there are a couple of questions you must get right. As I recall, they deal with the rights/freedoms/voting stuff. Almost all the information you need to do the test is in the book; the important bits are highlighted. It's up to you to find out the names of your MP etc. (they didn't come up in my test). It took me about 4 minutes, including double checking, and I got them all right. I wasn't the first to finish.

This being Quebec, the test and ceremony were done the same morning. Some 50 people, from 25 countries, in a ratty community centre opposite a paper factory. No Mountie. I noted with some interest that the judge, clearly of anglophone European origins, only chatted to one of the new Canadians while dishing out the certificates.

ITS EAZZZZZZZZZY, you'll have no problem, its just to prove you speak english really......

Just out of interest, can you re-sit if you fail?

http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/resourc.../section27.asp