Sunday, January 27, 2013
If I can ace the test........
UK Telegraph has a short feature on the new British citizenship test, which "critics say" has been dumbed down too much. They included some sample questions, and I scored 100%.
Maybe the "critics" are right if a Yank who has never been to England can ace the test.
To be sure, I'm an unusually Anglocentric Yank, listening to BBC constantly for 50 years and reading UK online papers instead of US online papers ... but still my knowledge is solely verbal as opposed to experiential. They should reinsert the "mundane information about water meters" that only an actual resident would know about. It's the mundane stuff that really counts!
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Maybe the "critics" are right if a Yank who has never been to England can ace the test.
To be sure, I'm an unusually Anglocentric Yank, listening to BBC constantly for 50 years and reading UK online papers instead of US online papers ... but still my knowledge is solely verbal as opposed to experiential. They should reinsert the "mundane information about water meters" that only an actual resident would know about. It's the mundane stuff that really counts!
¶ 8:56 AM
