In honor of Independence Day. 10 questions selected from the real test.
The National pass rate is 91%. Very easy test. :D.
I missed one. I knew we had roughly 420 to 460 House members. But didn’t have the exact number memorized. I probably did memorise it in my 9th grade Civics class (1975) but I’ve slept since then.
Hope everyone has a great 4th of July. Eat plenty of watermelon and wear sunscreen. 
Otherwise it wasn’t hard.
Seriously? Only ten easy questions.
(I answered them all correctly.)
I am proud and relieved that I got all 10 right. The only one I really had to think about was the number of members of the House of Representatives.
I guess this test is a bit challenging for a recent immigrant. The questions are a mixture of Civics and history.
But they only require 6 correct answers out of 10. That makes it easy.
Amazing I got 9 right being as I did not pay much attention to this stuff in high school! (members of the House of Representative missed.)
I’ve since read tons of non-fiction books, so must have learned these things later.
I have taught citizenship classes, and I emphasize that most people are denied their N-400 for inconsistencies in the information the provide on the form, rather than the civics questions. Also, they need to realize that the oral component of the test actually begins the moment they walk into the room. The officer considers how they engage in small talk, etc,–their acculturation.
I expected the questions to be more difficult.
There’s a (sort of) mnemonic for that.
Nate Silver’s site is called FiveThirtyEight (dot com). With 100 Senate EVs, this is only three Reps away from the actual number in the HoR.
Embarrasingly, I had to look it up to find the three Washington, D.C. electors to make the numbers fit (while I was writing this post, not when taking the quiz).
Canuck, here. Got 9 out of 10. Missed the number of representatives, and got lucky with the Secretary who isn’t in cabinet.
Well I got 10.
Now have a go at the UK test:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/play/quizzes/can-you-pass-uk-citizenship-7108104
(PS: Yes, I know there is a questionable claim about television).
Wow–this concept catches me by surprise!
Are there objective criteria? What causes a person to fail and be denied?
10/10, didn’t even break a sweat. Ask me something hard, like where the Secretary of Commerce falls in the line of presidential succession or how Congressional seats are apportioned between when a state is admitted to the Union and the next census redistricting, and I’d probably have to guess.
Got 18 out of 24 on the UK quiz, which is just barely a pass, and I’ll admit having to guess on a number of those - that test has a whole element of stuff like dog-walking and Diwali and such.
Easy 10/10. The only one I paused on was the “last day you can send in your income tax” one. I picked what I expected they meant the answer to be…but you can certainly send it in later, and if you do a different form, not even be penalized.
The rest seemed straight forward enough.
The British test would require studying the book they mentioned. I got 10 out of 24. Several lucky guesses
The biggest surprise was missing the Channel Islands question. I knew Germany occupied them in WWII. I thought they were part of the UK. Nope. I checked Wikipedia and they are Crown dependencies.
Aced it - guess that means I don’t get de-citizenized, right?
Got 10/10 on the US test.
Got 21/24 on the British test. Missed two about British inventions, and the one about the jurisdiction of the English County Court.
Actually, not an “acculturation” test but more of a verbal English language proficiency test. Description here. Senior citizen applicants and others are exempted from the English test. From that page:
The small-talk part is a bit of a misdirection/red herring tactic, the pass/fail is on whether the non-exempted person can understand and communicate the material relevant to their application and the civics test IOW does s/he understand what’s going on here today and can s/he express so in English?
I already did, just to be a citizen.
BTW, 10/10 for the US; and 18/24(pass, barely) for the UK relying on a lot of extrapolations and wild guesses.
I’ve often argued that any of our homeborn who fancies him/herself going into politics should be made to take the test.
Now, the US makes you study 100 items, some of them with multiple “right” answers (e.g. name a cabinet department) while according to the linked article the UK makes you deal with “an estimated 3,000 facts and 278 dates” :eek: Roight… look 'ere, guv’nor, I get that Ye Olde Sceptered Isle has been in business (and up in other people’s business) 4 to 5 times as long as the USA, depending on how you count, but really.
And yeah, what’s with the dog-walking?