Helped a couple of my EE colleagues out with the on line “Britishness “ test (or whatever the official name is) yesterday and it seems like I’m due to be deported soon too .
Some of the questions are really out there in general knowledge terms and are probably more suited to a pub quiz tbh: “how long ago did we start making bronze?” ”how old is Big Ben?” “Who built The Tower of London?”
Obviously these questions have caused a certain amount of panic and consternation amongst my colleagues as you can probably imagine. It’s not all doom and gloom however as it turns out that if you’ve been living and working here since before a certain date you have automatic rights to stay. Not sure what the date is but I assume it’s fairly recent as they visibly relaxed and unpacked their suitcases.
the maoster:
Helped a couple of my EE colleagues out with the on line “Britishness “ test (or whatever the official name is) yesterday and it seems like I’m due to be deported soon too .
Some of the questions are really out there in general knowledge terms and are probably more suited to a pub quiz tbh: “how long ago did we start making bronze?” ”how old is Big Ben?” “Who built The Tower of London?”
Obviously these questions have caused a certain amount of panic and consternation amongst my colleagues as you can probably imagine. It’s not all doom and gloom however as it turns out that if you’ve been living and working here since before a certain date you have automatic rights to stay. Not sure what the date is but I assume it’s fairly recent as they visibly relaxed and unpacked their suitcases.
I think ‘Bronze’ is about 5 years old, it’s now actually called ‘Bronze Babe’, (I looked at the wife’s tanning kit, I ain’t no fool you know )
Big Ben drinks in Wetherspoons Carlisle, he’s about 40 I think, works in Cavvy’s pie factory…(not sure how they know him , but there you go. )
Tower of London? Well it’s obviously in London ,.so at a guess Balfour Beaty?
I can’t answer any of those questions, nor I suspect can most of the population. They seem more appropriate to the TV quiz ‘Pointless’. They have probably been compiled by the same committee of highly paid oxygen wasters who decided: that in order to administer Covid injections proposed candidates: “need to complete courses on conflict resolution, equality, diversity and human rights, moving and handling loads and preventing radicalisation”. yet perhaps the one PC course with relevance : ‘disability awareness’, appears to have been overlooked.
Edit: I think the original tower was built by William the Conqueror and the present one by either Edward 1 or 3 but I’m probably wrong.
My local health trust have just sacked a heart specialist because he couldn’t speak English, sounds like a result. He is still working as he couldn’t understand the DCM
good_friend:
Glad you said Edward I and III. I think Edward II may have had other things on his mind!
Oh! Just looked him up…
Surprising to me that we nearly had a King Alphonso. But if “Alphonso” was an old English king`s name, maybe it would be more popular and common today?
Through Pompey from Caen once. After spending too long chatting up the doris in duty free, I cut it fine getting back to the motor to disembark. As we all queued to clear customs and immigration, I realised then that I couldn’t find my passport. I knew it was in the lorry somewhere but as much as I rummaged around whilst moving up the queue, I couldn’t locate it. I didn’t want to declare it as lost because that’s just an expensive hassle and I know I’d find it when I got back to the yard anyway.
Seeing as the firm was a local outfit and I’d shipped in and out of Pompey many times, I thought I’d try my luck, ‘passport please driver’, ‘sorry I can’t find it, I know it’s in here somewhere though’, ‘you are English aren’t you?’, 'Bobby Charlton, Brown sauce and Fish ‘n chips mate’. Much to my surprise the barrier was raised.
Life in the UK Test 1
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Question 6 of 24
Who built the Tower of London?
Henry VII
Oliver Cromwell
Henry VIII
William the Conqueror
Utter bonkers test .
Where is the relevance to the question what height is the London Eye ?
Why not a question like –
Does a Zebra crossing have Black then white ?
White then black ?
Wtf - there’s a loose Zebra ?
Where ■■
The test lasts for 45 minutes, during which time the candidate is required to answer 24 multiple-choice questions. To pass the test, the candidate must receive a grade of 75% or higher, i.e. at least 18 correct answers to the 24 questions.
And in those 45 minutes you have to get a dusty ■■■■■■■■ to buy a drink …( A trick question obviously )
It’s like an English test, spoken , written and understanding. For folk becoming Canadian citizens , doesn’t matter if you are born n bred English speaker can only speak English you do the test ( well under 55 only) and 9 times out o ten the persons running the test are from the Indian subcontinent and you can hardly understand there accent , and one or more o my mates did not score top marks speaking because the &&&& running the test can’t understand different British accents. , same as below multiple choice for knowledge test .
JIMBO47:
It’s like an English test, spoken , written and understanding. For folk becoming Canadian citizens , doesn’t matter if you are born n bred English speaker can only speak English you do the test ( well under 55 only) and 9 times out o ten the persons running the test are from the Indian subcontinent and you can hardly understand there accent , and one or more o my mates did not score top marks speaking because the &&&& running the test can’t understand different British accents. , same as below multiple choice for knowledge test .
Apart from multiplication tables, I can recall as a child having to learn lists of Kings and Queens, the dates of significant battles and events, being able to place on a map reasonably accurately about a dozen UK cities and probably the same number of rivers and mountain/hill ranges along with many of the various counties.
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,.so at a guess Balfour Beaty?
