Be Excellent To Each Other

https://lifeintheuktests.co.uk/life-in-the-uk-test/

You need 18 out of 24 to pass.

I scraped through with 18 and these tests are a farce and should be abolished.

18.

I agree

Also 18. Although I made a few bonehead mistakes. David Weir! I'm an idiot

I think there really is a place for a test like this, asking practical questions about living in the U.K. and covering things you really need to know to make it easy to live here. Not this history and sport bullshit.

There was a question about typical British values and 'queuing' wasn't one of the answers. FFS.

I got 19, although there was a lot of guessing.

I also agree.

I used questions from this for a quiz round once. Worked well although I realised I didn't know how to pronounce 'Inigio'.

I doubt that very many native Britons could tell you much about the Chartists, or the timeline of early Christianity.

I mean, these kind of tests should be used to show how well someone is or is going to get to grips with the culture. The questions should have a lot less of "The Government has used their power to devolve the Irish Assembly, True or False"

That's a complete crapshoot right there.

Or what year were movies first shown in the UK (a later test).

1896, for the curious.

Have fun storming the castle!

20. The principle of British life question was laughable. People are horrible to each other and chuck litter on the floor all the time.

Nah, it should be:
You are applying for a driving license. Which of these places can you get the form?
A) By phone to the DVLA
B) The local town hall
C) The post office
D) Chicken Cottage

Useful shit.

Right? What a terrible question.

I got 18, just scraped it.

I happen to think we *do* need a test regarding living in the UK, it's just that this one is so absurd.... who gives a flying fuck about Mo Farrah running some sack-race faster than some bunch of other people, and which luvvies have won gongs at the latest film-fest? What possible, or indeed practical relevance is this to anyone whatsoever, let alone would-be new entrants to the UK?

So, sound idea but very poor execution.

The correct answer, clearly, was the right to drive cars.
Shame they missed out riding motorbikes; more marginalization of minorities.

Do we know that the questions this site serves up are actually the same or even representative of the official test given that this is an unaffiliated website as far as I can tell?

From what I remember of the official book I took from the library that time, yes.

I got 23/24 but don't mind being deported somewhere better. Can I go to Denmark?

Same. I think the questions must be pretty random, as I'm pretty sure that most of you lot would have known them. The only one I really had to guess at was the one I got wrong.

I think they're all the same.

10,000 meters, Oscars, Rise of Chartists and Christianity, who "built" the Tower of London?

Yes, I had all those

Yep, me too. got 20/24.

Bloody stupid questions in the main.

Yes, they randomise the order though.

This is pulled from the 2017 set of questions I believe, as it changes each year naturally.

So what questions should we have instead?

I like the idea of there being one about queueing.

On a packed commuter train, how many conversations would you reasonable expect to strike up in a 1 hour journey?
- 0
- 1-2
- 3-4
- over 4

Where the answer is clearly 0 leave me alone thank you very much also no eye contact it makes me uncomfortable.

If you scroll down past the first question of the test there's a whole set of other quizzes to take.

20 out of 24. Lots of guesses though.

Wouldn't want unlucky people here.

Would you like to live in this country?
Yes / No

Repeat in every written language that people use, and have an interpreter stood there in case they can't read.

Is Peter Cushing canon?

You missed out the second part.

I got 17/24 and therefore failed.

One of the questions is "Who appoints "life peers"?"

I'd watched a Politics Unboringed video on the House of Lords last week that said that life peers were chosen by the Prime Minister, so naturally I went with that as a choice.

But no, they're appointed by the Monarch on the advice of the prime minister - so basically, by the Prime Minister then. What a pointless distinction on a question that has absolutely no bearing on life in the UK.

The reason I said there should be a test is because it provides a way to give people learning materials and a reason to learn the things they actually need to know. Like what their rights are if questioned by police, or how tax and benefits work.

A Polish friend is currently going through the citizenship process. I've promised her that when it's finished and she takes the oath, I'll give her a copy of that day's 'Sun', a cheap football shirt, and a St George's Flag, then take her to the dodgy fake-Wetherspoons on New Road.

That is about as far from British values as I can imagine.

Make her a nice cup of tea, take her for some fish and chips or a Sunday dinner, and buy her a top with the shoulders mysteriously cut out of it.

Really? Which Britain do you live in?

Feex for accuracy.

These are things which seem specifically Englishly jingoistic.

I can't find anywhere selling unicorn meat and lions are so expensive these days.

Like pigs, lions are pretty huge.

Yeah, fuck The Sun, football hooligans etc.

Take them for a cream tea, out in the rain without an umbrella, and somewhere with a really long queue.

Christ, you people are judgemental.

I got 15. They won't let me back in at this rate.

It's raining. Do you:

(a) Stoically conduct a BBQ in heavy showers (preferably holding an umbrella over the grill for an entire cooking period), Pimms very optimistically in hand, with rainwater trickling down one's neck.

(b) Quite sensibly call off the BBQ.

If it's (b), bugger off.

But to be serious, do people actually think 'Britishness' is defined by leering tabloid gutter press headlines, football and fucking Wetherspoons? We're better than that.

Perhaps this lack of pride is part of our problem as a nation; I don't see the French, Italians or Germans having such a downer about themselves. It's actually pretty sad because (IMO) this is a great country, and people *should* take pride. Bloody negativity and abject pessimism wherever you look.

It's entirely possible Kern wasn't being serious and was stretching a point for comic effect.

Some people like football and Wetherspoons. It doesn't make them bad people.

I'm struggling a bit more with newspapers, but I'm sure there are some good reasons for reading them.

Oh I'm sure, but a great many people *do* think like that, and we see an awful lot of self-deprecating negativity pretty much everywhere among the metropolitan, post-Brexit chattering classes. It's irritating, frankly.

That's possibly because we're not living in France, Italy or Germany.

Yo, Nickachu! What's the deal in Sweden?

Wait. Wait wait wait...

The west germans look down on the east germans.

Who said it made them bad people?
A lot of people like mars bars or chewing gum, but you wouldn't necessarily laud these as examples of Britishness or whatevs.