lifeintheuk test

[raikal]

Hi
I will be eligible to apply for BN after november 5th hence I will have to write the lifeintheuktest ( www.lifeintheuktest.gov.uk )

I have contacted several test centers today and not a single test center is ready yet. They are saying it may be upto 3 weeks until they are ready.

IND website says the test centers will be ready by Oct 3.

Does anyone know which center is ready to take the test ?

Thanks

[John]

There are, I think, about 80 centres planning to offer the test. As you have not disclosed your precise location ... which is your right ... it is really impossible for anyone to give any meaningful answer to you.

For example, if you live in London and the nearest centre currently offering the test is in Manchester, well you surely would not travel all that way just to take the test a few days earlier than you can do in your location.

Of course the great disappointment is that, not for the first time, IND has over-promised and under-delivered. It did not have to say that tests would be available from 3rd October, but it chose to do that. It would have been far better if it had said say 24th October, and then tests had started a few days before that.

Hope you find a local test centre soon .... and indeed hope you pass first time. Keep studying in the meantime.

[rogerroger]

John, i am in the west of london

do you know of any test centres in the west of london, and do they do tests in the evening or on weekends.

i cant find the information on the net. i am about to order the book just in case it suddenly goes out of stock, and i am left completely high and dry.

[Chess]

The test should be straight forward if you have lived in the UK for a while and actively followed issues...etc

[John]

Anyone looking for a test centre should go to this webpage and enter their postcode.

But as already reported in this thread, not all test centres are up and running just, but at least you will know who to contact to check.

The test should be straight forward if you have lived in the UK for a while and actively followed issues...etc

Quite right, it should be straightforward ... but I'll make a prediction .... it will not be that long before someone reports to this Board that they have been along for their test confidently expecting to pass ..... and they got failed .... and they will be complaining about that!

Surely it is better to buy the recommended book and study the chapters on which the test questions will be based. After all if a person fails and needs to pay another test fee on their re-sit, the cost of that re-sit will far exceed the cost of the book.

Or at the very least, someone intending to take the test should at least do the on-screen test questions on this webpage. Having looked there .... everyone still feeling confident?

[sywahu]

One of the questions is : "How many young people are there in the UK? "

There are several questions like above which means we have to memorise the numbers/stats!! Questions about politics etc are OK but stats! Come on

But I guess I would attempt the test even if they make it 20 times more difficult! So stop moaning sy and get on with it!!!!!!

[John]

What and when are the national days of the four countries of the UK?

Glad I don't have to take the test! I have been British since birth and certainly don't know when the national days of the four countries are.

Thankfully we know that the pass rate is 75% and as there are going to be 24 questions in the test you are allowed to get up to 6 wrong and still pass.

[rogerroger]

this section is funny

You will not be able to look for answers in the 'Life in the United Kingdom' handbook during the test.

i went through the sample questions, the four questions were pretty straight forward, but the topics given on the forum

if i pass, will i get the result certificate same day.

it is however questions like these which scare me
http://www.lifeintheuktest.gov.uk/htmlsite/self_40.html

Population

* How many people live in the countries of the UK?
* What is the census and how is census data collected and used?
* How many people belong to an ethnic minority and which are the largest minority groups? Where are there large ethnic communities?

[John]

Roger, you came here in 2000? Don't you remember the census in April 2001?

We remember it well here if only because my wife and step-daughter arrived mid-April 2001 and that was about a week before the defined census date. So their details were included even though they had been in the UK only about a week. But then a census is a snapshot at a particular moment in time so of course they needed t be included.

Lots more about the census by clicking here.

[rogerroger]

i actually came in 1998
and i have spent a few years in the UK before that

census of april 2001, i dont remember that? i know what a census is, hey is that when a lot of people declared their religion as jedi knights
but how is census data collected and used?

which ethnic minority are they talking about, which are the largest minority groups

i guess the large ethnic groups are bolton and areas around,
elephant & castle, southall+slough

[sywahu]

well guys, don't be surprised if we have to sit a viva exam as well in the next year or two:

"Well sir/madam, you will be glad to know that you have passed your Citizenship test. Now you must prove that you also speak like one. Please read the following passage from Shakespear in erm...(shifts thru a list)... London's Cockney dialect and please...read it like you mean it. And tomorrow, we shall mark you on how well you act like one!"

Please!

[John]

if i pass, will i get the result certificate same day

That is my understanding ... if you pass you will walk out with your pass certificate.

From the organisational point of view I think it is clear that the UK Driving Theory test has been used as a model. That is, totally computerised, and the computer obviously recording the answers given and keeping count of the correct answers. So instant result at the end of the test, and certificates handed out as appropriate.

[raikal]

Hi,

I live in surrey and I cannot find a test centre ready yet.

Does anyone know ?