CitizenTest

Blisterman

I was looking out of curiosity at the sample test to become a UK citizen.

http://www.ukcitizenshiptest.co.uk/

After six years of living there, I scored 64%, 11% less than a pass, and I'd imagine most British people would score about the same or less. The questions are fairly random and not really something you'd ever need to know. (What year was divorce legalised in the UK?

So if there was a citizen test for Ireland, what questions could be asked?

NckD

Being an Irish Citizen Test the questions would have to be as Gaelige and i dont think anybody would pass it. That would leave Micheal D in charge of the country.

Mike 1972

Ive been resident in the UK (Northern Ireland) for ten years. Just scraped a pass (75%) in just over 3 miniutes (guessing a lot of the answers) Agree the relevence of most of the questions is pretty dubious and the average born-and-bred citizen would struggle to pass it.

Blisterman wrote: »

What year was divorce legalised in the UK?

I was under the impression that the legalisation of divorce in the UK was a bit like the legalisation of contraceptives in Ireland (i.e. didnt really happen in one fell swoop but the law was gradually liberalised over a 20+ year period in a series of feircely fought steps) ?

mikemac

Just throwing in that I read somewhere (don't know if it's true) that Taoiseach John A Costello declared the Republic of Ireland in 1949 and it was swiftly recognized by the international community.
So if your parents were born in 1948 or before you are entitled to a British passport

Could be bull****, I don't know.

Sigi

I got 71% and I've never been outside of Heathrow.it seems a fairly common sense test with all the EU questions being valid here aswell.

I got 50% and have never lived in the UK.

Shame on you.

mikemac

I got 46% and lived in Belfast for quite a while.
And when I skipped off college most days the only thing on TV was Prime Minsters Question time, watching William Hague and Tony Blair rip shreds off each other

46%? Shame on me

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

46% here too!! God only knows what I'd do on an Irish one!

Mike 1972

feelingstressed wrote: »

So if your parents were born in 1948 or before you are entitled to a British passport.

AFaIK (assuming at least one of them were born in RoI) they would be but you would be if they had availed of theirs before you were born (If one of them were born in UK of course you would be automatically entitled)

Open to correction though.

Adds: The UK citizenship laws are actually quite complex. At one time all citizens of the commonwealth and colonies had full UK citizenship but this was revoked once they started arriving in the UK in sizeable numbers. It was restored to the Falklanders after the war though.

wonton

Q.1- which country is the most ****ed in europe.

Q.2.what is the unemployment rate of ireland?

Q.3-how much does the taoisoch of ireland get paid?

Q.4-why the **** do you still wana come to ireland then!!?

Orion

Am I missing the joke here? Or do people actually believe that this is real?

Seriously:
In which year did married women get the right to divorce their husband?

An obvious question to come up in a UK test. And they don't even have to say it three times via text.

Next bullchit site please ...

KeithM89_old

54% in 2 minutes 24 seconds :cool:

mikemac

Macros42 wrote: »

Seriously:
In which year did married women get the right to divorce their husband?

An obvious question to come up in a UK test.

I've obviously missed something here, why is it so obvious?
Is it to do with the Royal family?

Richard

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Ive been resident in the UK (Northern Ireland) for ten years. Just scraped a pass (75%) in just over 3 miniutes (guessing a lot of the answers) Agree the relevence of most of the questions is pretty dubious and the average born-and-bred citizen would struggle to pass it.



I was under the impression that the legalisation of divorce in the UK was a bit like the legalisation of contraceptives in Ireland (i.e. didnt really happen in one fell swoop but the law was gradually liberalised over a 20+ year period in a series of feircely fought steps) ?

I thought that too. In Charles Dickens' book Hard Times, part of the story is the fact that rich people could get divorced because they had to get an individual Act of parliament for every divorce case, which poor people couldn't afford. I think Dickens was in that situation himself in real life.

PeterIanStaker

Irish Citizenship test (multiple choice)

Q1. Do you hate yourself and this country? Tick box
[]Yes [] Yes [] Yes

Q2. Who do you vote for? Tick box
[] Fianna Fail []Fianna Fail [] Fianna Fail

Q3 What newspaper do you buy? Tick box
[]Indo []Indo [] Indo

Q4. How many times has Ireland won the Eurovision?

Q5. True or False: You deserve to be alive. Tick box
[] False [] False

Q6. How much, to the nearest million, will you pay for a one - bedroomed terraced sandcastle in Co. Meath Dublin?
[]2,000,000 []13,000,000 [] 245,000,000


Bonus Question: Has the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church ever done anything wrong? Tick box.
[]No



Text your answers to 1010100110. Texts cost €25 per SMS.

lol
well im clueless anyway
Questions answered correctly: 9 out of 24 (38%)

Mint Sauce

lol, thank god for already having duel citizenship, and i was born and raised in the uk



i'm blaming the alcohol

bnt

I suppose it's like any test: you swot for it and pass, but you're not going to be expected to regurgitate bits of it years down the road. It's more about the process than it is about the result.

wijam

33%, And I lived in Derry for the first 26 years of my life before moving to Dublin, ah sure, going on that test they're better off without me

Superbus

54%, mostly pure guess work. Some of those questions are just so astonishingly irrelevant.

An Irish one would probably be very similar to that, if that British one is any way near a legitimate one.

phasers

63% and I've never even heard of the UK

Mike 1972

phasers wrote: »

I've never even heard of the UK

Its a country to the East/Northeast of Ireland

Usually shown as pink on the map

caseyann

34% :cool: lol


What is the national past time of Irish?

Do you like free everything?

Will you make sure to take as much as you can get from social services?

Agent J

83% in about 3minutes....

Never been over in the UK for longer then a long weekend....

phasers

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Its a country to the East/Northeast of Ireland

Usually shown as pink on the map

Pink? Really?

brummytom

58%

Some of those question were just stupid

starbelgrade

phasers wrote: »

Pink? Really?

Sometimes marked on maps as the U Ghey.

Mike 1972

phasers wrote: »

Pink? Really?

Not on satellite maps though :pac:

biko

46% - guess I'll have to work harder on my Britishness.

owenc

I only got 54% thats crap.

falan

42% failed...Only spent 18 years there too:D

Mint Sauce

brummytom wrote: »

58%

Some of those question were just stupid

the home office are coming for you tom, your on the next flight out



i cant talk, got even less

amacachi

Just doing it now, but this is some question;
The number of children and young people up to 18 years old in the UK is
A) 13 million
14 million
C) 15 million
D) 16 million

I mean come on!

amacachi

17/24, 71%, just one question short! Some awful questions though, schoolchildren aged 13-16 can work A)12 hours a week or 10 hours a week.

caseyann

irish-stew wrote: »

the home office are coming for you tom, your on the next flight out



i cant talk, got even less

He is safe,Ireland doesnt have a test,although he knows probably more about Eire then UK so even if we had a test he would pass better than most here

tommyhaas

Surely there would have to be a language section in the citizenship test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC6egPqgqpE

PapaQuebec

I lived in the UK for 16 years and scored 58%! Most "indigenous" brits would fail this test also as the questions are mostly about things that ordinary folks have no knowledge of.
It's a bit like the driver theory test - constant practise and you'll know all the answers - you wont be any more or less "british" by passing, you'll get citizenship and the liberals will be able to proclaim how "integrated" you are!

stovelid

Failed it.

Only got eight right.

Morbo the Annihilator

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 12 out of 24 (50%)

Time taken: 03 minutes 21 seconds

OUTRAGEOUS! I WILL DESTROY THEM!