Taking The British Citizenship Test Without Studying *mayday*
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- As Brexit is just around the corner I thought I'd test how British I actually am. I've been living in the UK for more than 3 years now so it should be easy... right? 👀
Please feel free to leave suggestions in the comments of what you would like to see next :)
Lots of love,
Vanessa 🌹
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COME SAY HI IN THE COMMENT SECTION - I’d love to meet you!
My name is Vanessa. I live in London, England.
I mainly upload my videos about life and culture in the UK, learning English, and things that interest me. Feel free to subscribe to my channel 🥰
Qs for frequently asked As:
I’m Austrian, born and raised in Vienna.
I do know how to use sinks with two taps.
It’s really confusing I have an American accent I know, but I’m still Austrian.
Question 11 is wrong, The O2 was called the Millennium Dome built to celebrant the millennium. So the O2 and the London Eye are the right answer.
Agreed - I would probably have picked that one.
It's not wrong but it feels like a trick question.
The problem is that the questions don't seem to be written by professional question writers. They seem like that some have been written by a person with low GCSE English grade.
Like someone else commented, you're still an honourary Brit to us
Congrats, you're a honourary Brit.
As long as it's spelled honourary, yes
Love you sense of humour.
The proofreading in this test is appalling - not only 'What composer' but 'Jessica Enis', when her surname is 'Ennis-Hill', and 'henman' needs a leading capital. Are you sure this is legit?
not to mention the gravity one... that was so badly formatted.
I'm pretty certain that this is not an actual official citizenship test so proof reading was probably never a consideration. Also, Her name WAS Ennis prior to getting married so the test would just pre-date that.
Jessica Ennis won an Olympic gold medal.
Jessica Ennis-Hill won an Olympic silver medal. So technically correct.
Also Ennis has two “N’s” not one.
Wishing you the Happiest of Happy New Years, Vanessa, and it's going to be a struggle to get through it,
but your vids always brighten my days!
As a Brit I took the test for fun but found that some of the answers were incorrect or ambiguous. Perhaps the questions were set by someone whose knowledge was somewhat lacking in education!
I personally think you'll qualify easily your enthusiasm for the British way of life and love of all of our history gives you 100 percent 👍welcome to your new home 👍
You know far more about life in the UK than I do about life in Austria. Well done on passing your mock test; you'd be an asset to the UK if you took it for real. Keep the vids coming.
When you apply for British citizenship you have the option of paying for a manual which contains all the information required to pass the test.
"Welcome to the British Citizenship test. What was the Spanish Armada?" - lol
On it's way to invade Britain in July1588. Didn't succeed.
I have only just found your channel and this is the second video I have watched. I was very surprised to find out you are Austrian as I thought you were American! I have enjoyed both videos and look forward to seeing more and dipping into previous vlogs when I have time x
It was basically a general knowledge test about England, so well done Vanessa! 👍♥️
Imagine pronouncing the answers more eloquently than those who asked the question ever could
You got more than me and I'm English! Well done kidda!
If Vanessa is not a native English speaker, she has the best non-native English I've ever heard. Perhaps Nabokov's would have surpassed, but not many's would.
As long as you know how a queue works and you jeer and clap when someone drops a glass in the pub, then you’re golden. A few bloodys and blimeys and you’re native.
Native to where? 18th Century Hackney?
7:47 Thats a strange question for British citizenship. 😒
Who thought of these?
Was there ANY kind of memorials today (29th December 2020), as it's 80 years since the longest night of the blitz in London, over 100,000 bombs (mostly incendiaries to light up main targets) and produced the 2nd great London fire.
RIP to all whom died in the blitz, and gave the ultimate sacrifice so we can have the freedoms we have today.
Lest we forget.
You've passed!!
1:44 If it had asked me that then I woulda just rounded it up to quarter to five.
Laughed at how you said 50/50 would be no help in the Olympic question when you had to give 2 answers & there was only 4 options
It would of been the perfect lifeline
I only just realized that! 😂
I've lived in scotland for 99% of my life and i failed it 😂
Kelly Holmes was indeed made a Dame for Gold in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events at the 2004 Summer Olympics
I used to work in the recycling department sorting the recycling out by hand, so getting ppl to do there own recycling does save the local councils and government lots of money so I would say technically you were right on that question but the government aren't going to say that on a test 🤣🤣🤣
I would agree with this. Recycling doesn't save the council money, but it makes them money.
Again, these questions are poorly worded. They don't appear to be written by a professional question writer.
The Olympic athletes question was a trick. There was only 2 Olympic athletes listed. The 2 guys were a race car driver and a tennis player.
X
Fail:
Tim Henman won an Olympic Silver at Atlanta 96
As a born british person who has lived in England all my life, I don't know most of these, congrats your more british than me lol
Who even knew the shampoo question 😳 not me
What a silly question anyway.
Well done, even if you don’t actually need to do it 👍😀. My partner recently passed this test “for real” (he is from Mainland China) at his first attempt - you have to pay £50 each time it is attempted, but may attempt it multiple times if required. He had done some study for it, as obviously there are cultural differences as well as pretty obscure historical data to absorb, but I think about 9/10 years living in the UK so far, initially as a post-graduate student, has familiarised him with British “culture”, so it wasn’t particularly hard for him 😀.
Please tell him well done 👏 ✔ 👍.
Brilliant! But Question 12 asks where slaves mainly came from during the slave trade. What has that to do with the UK? The UK never had a slave trade or slaves.
I've just found out I can't be British, but I've no where else to go !!"
I don't know what the pass mark is, but I was born in the UK and I am not sure I would have passed that test. I didn't see the relevance of a lot of of those questions to being specifically British.
The pass mark is 18 out of 24
That was maddeningly entertaining.
Brilliant, well done
Well done Vanessa and so glad you don't sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger, lol.
Whoever put the test together is not exactly perfect as you were correct about the grammar on one of the questions.
An English citizenship test should be presented in perfect English grammar I’d say.
Also, the question in relation to the landmark built to celebrate the millennium really should have had 2 correct answers as the 02 arena was also built for the celebrations and originally named The Millennium Dome.
Well done you anyway as you did brilliant.
By the way, The Bayeux Tapestry which you were correct in selecting its location as being in France is a tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
That’s when William the Conqueror invaded England from Normandy, France.
The tapestry is in a museum in the town of Bayeux, Normandy.
It is Amazing to see and runs around the inside walls of a very large room.
It also shows the appearance of Halley’s Comet which appeared in the night sky during the battle.
Thanks for the video and again, well done on the pass.
The "Life in the UK" test is pretty easy
I clapped for you as well! that made me smile!
This quiz is a red flag with the grammatically incorrect questions :P
Who ever created the site could have done a better job with it, around half the questions weren't related to being a British Citizen, not to mention the grammatical errors etc
Well done, there are a few British people who would not have got that many.
In Northern Ireland they speak Ulster Gaelic, so it would be cad é mar tá tú instead of conas atá tú, as I'm sure you already know.
Very impressive. I've lived in the UK for over sixty years and got some of those wrong😆
im glad i was born here, as that test is tedious
To change that ending and answer the question, what didn't we learn today? Is that Her Majesty's Government is going to screw you out of approx £40 for study materials and £50 a pop for the test and every resit if you need them. All to answer a bunch of question that are more relevant to a not so great pub quiz than they are to the modern day UK. And they even give you the wrong answer on at least one question.
Wouldn't mind if the questions were along the vein of that MOT question. If someone is moving to the UK I am going to presume they maybe have an interest in the history, maybe more than most Brits do and are probably going to be doing this on their own time anyway. Personally I think it'd be better to find out if you know what you need to open a bank account for example rather than when the last successful invasion of England was (It was before the act of Union hence England) The question they give the wrong answer for. Will let you figure out when it was and what wrong answer they expect from you.
Hello, regardless of your settle status, you will have to take this test if you decide to apply for the British citizenship. As for most of the questions (and answers), I've forgotten 99% of them after 2 weeks. Mostly useless information in my opinion. Take care!
Well done 👍 some of those questions are a bit strange still you did very well 👍
I just opened up this video, and haven't watched it, but have to admit that when I tried it, I failed big time!
btw....I'm 74, and a long retired businessman, but that didn't help me at all (ignorance is bliss)!!!
Ok...now I watched it, and I also would have passed with these questions, but on my test it would have been ludicrous
to expect any foreign applicant to have a clue!
My massive doubt here is (if this was a millionaire question) my family would be on the streets, as what is now known as 'The 02 Arena' was, ridiculously, built as a temporary venue!
A good number of those questions had nothing to do with being British. A couple were obvious if you knew one of the multiple answers. However, The hard questions you seemed to Breeze through showing you studied the art of writing on your hand at school really well. Nicely done. Welcome to Britain.
Well done. Hope you didn’t cheat! 🤪✌️
Now, how about trying the Austrian citizenship test!? 🤣
Well, that's it. I'm getting booted out tomorrow. I think you just about did better than I did.
Hi Vanessa are you still living in the UK and enjoying your life here ?
The Romans built steam baths in Britain,, long before that guy opened his steam bath and head massage business. You can still visit a Roman bath in the city of Bath.
The Romans rubbed in olive oil before scraping it off again, but they also used scented water. Lye soap, made from wood ash and animal fat had been known in Sumer and Egypt, and it's believed it was actually the Celtic traders who introduced it to the Roman empire. Lye soap was being produced in Britain in the 1200s, and in the 1400s the French were making a soap with wood ash, seawater, and olive oil. Can you believe no-one in Britain thought to wash their hair until this Indian migrant arrived?
To shampoo originally just meant to massage the scalp, not wash the hair. The modern use of the word has changed. Of course people cleaned their hair before that, usually just with water and a louse-comb.
Omg I british and wow I wud so fail that test so much I didn't know most of them questions wow well done hen lol 👍👍🏴🏴❤️
Certainly fail an English test!
I got really lucky with a lot of the questions 🙊❤️xx
@@vanessatalks1 most of the questions baffled me lol u done so well 👍😁😁
3:03 Actually I feel 50/50 would be _pretty_ helpful here...I mean, removing two out of four answers when two are needed kinda sounds helpful!
Ummm, Holmes and Ennis-Hill were competing against other women, so not sure why it's a _go girls_ moment :-/
That answer for Q10 was worded very poorly. Smoking in public is not an offense, but indoors in public is.
I actually think knowing the significance ot the 25/12 is way more relevant than knowing who invented shampoo, but then I'm bald lol (maybe you don't think it's relevant because the date is significant in some other countries, but that only means immigrants from those other countries will already know. There are plenty of cultures around the world for whom it has absolutely no significance.
@@stevebarlow3154 He won a silver, the Q was about gold :-)
@@carlhartwell7978 Not being a tennis follower I confused Henman with Murray!
I remember only one phrase in Gaelic, but it's very rude. Something like kissing a part of my anatomy.
I know in England a newly qualified driver, has a green P to put on their car, to let other drivers know they have passed in the past year.
I don't know if it's mandatory though.
It’s not, we don’t really recommend it because people still treat you like a learner
P plate, also known as a Plonker plate. As said not mandatory or advised.
The question about what day is Jesus birthday celebrated makes sense as we are a Christian country, but I don’t understand the reason for the question on the bayeux tapestry.
Great work 😍👌
I knew you would pass.
I think you did better than most British would.
My friends and i did the British Citizenship test and we failed miserably and we where born in the uk.
Fair play I was born here in Britain and I’m not going to lie I don’t know the answer to most of these questions, also what happened to the concept of proof reading and SPaG?
I was born there as well ... but apart from the sports questions.... the rest were dead easy
Christianity questions are included because the country has an Established Religion - Christianity - and many people seeking citizenship will be of different religious backgrounds.
Most of the questions are absolutely nothing to do with Being British. I have a BA in Hist and could not answer all the questions some are really daft. So if you know about Facebook then that makes you more a Brit and someone who does not, weird. Anyway well done in answering the question it shows how clever you are. And finally Happy New Year.
Is there an Austrian Citizenship Test?
Would you pass that.🧐
Welcome to Blighty! (slang for Britain) Loving your channel but your American accent still confuses me given that you're from Austria! Keep up the good work 'love' :)
All I can say is, I'm glad I was born in Britain! LOL
Lol, i was born here and a few of those questions i would have got wrong. Also, some questions are questionably nothing to do with being British.😊 However, this is from someone who at the age of 19 thought Torquay was abroad.😞😟😃😂
You can tell the person who wrote the questions for this absurd test lives in the Home Counties, has never been north of Watford and thinks its 1934.
Heck, we`ve got a bloody Austrian showing The Home Office how to write English correctly now. This is no fault of the Austrian, all credit to her, but an embarrassment to the United Kingdom.
Most western nations have only two questions when applying for citizenship :
Q1 : How many millions of £ ( $ )`are are you bringing with you, per person ?
Q2 : Which Local Deposit Account / Bank will you be transfering said amount into 10 days before you arrive ?
Explain the offside rule in football ( soccer to you )
You couldn't possibly pass as British, such a fantastic set of knashers 😬
I know this is a joke but this stereo type has to go, the UK has very good dental hygiene statistically. Germans and UK at the top for teeth.
What on earth, turns out you’re more British than I am despite the fact I’ve lived here for the last 40 years! I guess I need to pack my bags and leave...
Not finished video yet but I would never have guessed you were from Vienna. Or anywhere in Europe for that matter. In my opinion your accent is North American. Could you explain or am I having hearing problems?....
I would guess that her English teacher was American and just learnt with that accent.
Was it Scottish or Irish Gaelic that you learned?
you did better than me, and I Am a british citizen. lmao
I'm curious as to why you were taking exams on the English Civil War in Austria? The school system just be so in depth over there!!! Or (it's just dawned on me) this was at university and you studied history, in the UK? But you seem more like a language student, from the Gaelic comment, hmmm. Sorry, if this is a nosy question.
Maybe when you hit a certain number of subscribers you should do a Q&A video. I'd also love some content about Vienna and Austria if that's possible, it might give you an angle over some of the other UA-camrs doing "what's it like to live in the UK as a non British person". I've found a while ago the German Girl in America channel and she's from Munich and does some content about both places, might be interesting. It's an amazing place Vienna, and there's a lot to talk about, maybe some other places in Austria too, or the country as a whole?
How many British would pass the test ?
Well being English... I would of failed this
That was pretty impressive - but you gained honorary citizenship at Q5 when you said, "cheating is great"! BTW the name of the group of French Protestants is pronounced 'hew-gen-owes'.
B C T
Are you an Immigrant = Yes
Now your a British CITIZEN
Hq I love your perspective on cheating.. I'm gonna tell my niece that. I've never heard it said like that.. life 😉
What dodgy website did you get this from? No way is it legitimate
Well done 👍, what brought you to the uk?
Well I'm British! Well I should hope so.............
You say i ron. We say i yon
To be honest, I believe these tests are a bit redundant. A more comprehensive test of values etc would suit better. Such as knowing age of consent. Guaranteed a lot of people I know wouldn't even get 25%. But you seem genuinly enthusiastic towards our country, therefore automatically get citizenship. We need more anglophiles.
this quiz is ridiculous. im british, lived in england my whole life and didn't know the awnser to a bunch of these. they may be about britian but not about daily life
britian?????
You don’t seriously expect Brexiteers to know grammatically correct English?
Ill teach you
Question: who is the British Prime Minister?
Answer: Bozzer
Test passed!
Well your accent it is British and I say it from an Italian prospective 😅😇
Unfortunately after 25 years spent in South East Asia back in 2019 could not get the indefinitely stay so got only 5 years extension so wonder if someone can help me out here my wife is British and my 3 children all have duo nationality Unfortunately I just separated from my wife after 30 years of marriage could I apply for a British passport now after 2 years I been back and not divorced yet just separated I really want get the British Passport any advice?
Much appreciated
I clapped.
Nice.
Cheating is great never tell this to your partner lol
I got a couple wrong but luckily i already have citizenship 😅
Wow you passed I failed and I'm a uk citizen I'm gonna have to cheat oops I mean study so I can pass 😄😉
Question 10 is wrong, anyone 16 years or older can buy tobacco in the UK.
It was increased to 18 in 2007.
Ngl I'd probably get most of these wrong