Life in the United Kingdom
Jul 6th 2009, 7:07 pm
#46
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
14/24. Then again, I'm Irish, not British! Though I come from a few miles from the border with Northern Ireland and I never heard of "Ulster Scots" as a dialect.
Jul 6th 2009, 7:32 pm
#47
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
10/24...total guesswork for the most part. Included some very ambiguous questions, I thought.
Jul 6th 2009, 7:45 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
Yes, for example the question about largest number of UK immigrants in the 80's - this could either mean number of people living in the UK in the 80's who immigrated, or the number of people who immigrated to the UK during the 80's. Two very different things - I interpreted it as the former, but I think it meant the latter.
Jul 6th 2009, 7:49 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
10/24, I think this test smells...end of
Jul 6th 2009, 8:55 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
15/24. And I fluked about a third of those by guessing.
That was easily the most boring set of questions I've ever answered. Surely they could come up with something a bit more exciting.
That was easily the most boring set of questions I've ever answered. Surely they could come up with something a bit more exciting.
Jul 6th 2009, 10:15 pm
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Jul 6th 2009, 11:39 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
or how fast can you neck a pint of beer at closing time..and who is top of the premier league...
Jul 7th 2009, 12:01 am
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
Important stuff to make you blend in and less likely to get the shit kicked out of you.
Jul 7th 2009, 12:07 am
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Jul 7th 2009, 12:45 am
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
My score is about the average for all the brits that have posted here: 13/24. Not bad for somebody who has never lived there. 
Jul 7th 2009, 1:44 am
#56
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
Meh. 14. 
Always great to take a test with grammatically incorrect questions:
"Which of the following TWO types of people get their prescriptions free of charge?"
I guess you only need to know asinine information, not how to write correctly.
I think it is also less than 100% true to claim that 'information in the census is kept secret for 100 years'. Sure, some might be, but some is also aggregated and released.
Idiotic test.
Always great to take a test with grammatically incorrect questions:
"Which of the following TWO types of people get their prescriptions free of charge?"
I guess you only need to know asinine information, not how to write correctly.
I think it is also less than 100% true to claim that 'information in the census is kept secret for 100 years'. Sure, some might be, but some is also aggregated and released.
Idiotic test.
Jul 9th 2009, 1:54 pm
#57
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
13/24, though, like many others, this is neither the kind of stuff you learn at school, nor by playing pub quizzes, or reading the Sun, so I highly doubt anyone who actually grew up in the UK would know all these answers. Unless you read the guide to citizenship they've published, you're pretty much screwed, and when you finally get there, would be considered such a bore that no one would want to know you anyway.
SWMBO had to do this for real, back when we lived in Blighty. She showed me the practice stuff and it was full of questions that didn't really have a concrete answer.
Example: "Who gets paid more for doing the same job - men or women?" Well, I know that the law says they should get the same. I also know that the reality is that usually men get more. But the only way to find out the "correct" answer is to see what it says in the book.
Incidentally, you get 40 mins or so to do the real test. She took 3 and got, ISTR, only one "wrong".
Jul 9th 2009, 5:34 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
Ding! We have a winner!
SWMBO had to do this for real, back when we lived in Blighty. She showed me the practice stuff and it was full of questions that didn't really have a concrete answer.
Example: "Who gets paid more for doing the same job - men or women?" Well, I know that the law says they should get the same. I also know that the reality is that usually men get more. But the only way to find out the "correct" answer is to see what it says in the book.
Incidentally, you get 40 mins or so to do the real test. She took 3 and got, ISTR, only one "wrong".
SWMBO had to do this for real, back when we lived in Blighty. She showed me the practice stuff and it was full of questions that didn't really have a concrete answer.
Example: "Who gets paid more for doing the same job - men or women?" Well, I know that the law says they should get the same. I also know that the reality is that usually men get more. But the only way to find out the "correct" answer is to see what it says in the book.
Incidentally, you get 40 mins or so to do the real test. She took 3 and got, ISTR, only one "wrong".
Jul 9th 2009, 5:42 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
Jul 9th 2009, 5:55 pm
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Re: Life in the United Kingdom
I'd love to hear Sir Humphrey's take on the citz test, wouldn't you?