Could you pass a US citizenship test?

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I don't think the test is meant to be hard. It's just so the people have to learn a little bit of US history and a bit about how the government is organised.

(I had 81, foreigner)

I'm surprised I did as well as I did. I think most history and government stuff is boring and probably didn't learn much of this stuff in school.

It said I got a 83% but it marked the last 11 questions as incorrect on the score sheet even though they were the right answers.

The real score was 91/96 which is just under 95%.

91 out of 96. History and geography are easy ones. Current events stuff, I didn't do so good at. Because I'm not really paying that much attention to politics there days.

Yeah, thats a hard one. I had to guess at the exact year. But I knew it was a bit after 1776.

My problems is, I'm bad with dates. But I know approximately when things happened.

FYI, the constitution was not written at the same the country was founded. A citizen should know that.

They really should have a special harder version for autistic people to take.

FYI anyone, citizen or not, should know how to speak properly.
You probably mean "the constitution was not written at the same TIME the country was founded."

But if that IS what you meant then we would like you to expound on what you said so we all can determine which form of brain damage you have.


The nation declared independence in 1776, then fought an eight year revolutionary war, and then a few years after the war was won- they had the constitutional convention to invent the country- (that is - set up its governement and laws).

That whole 14 year process was what I mean by "founding the country".

But for practical purposes the writing of the constitution by itsself WAS the founding of the country.



But according to you the 'founding of the country did not occur at the same time as the founding of the country.

So why dont you tell us what you mean by saying that the country wasnt founded at the same time that it was founded.?

I could write the citizenship test

I did a UK one once, it was much harder than the US one. Loads of history and law, and some tricky bits of geography.

Here is one quiz: http://www.theuktest.com/life-in-the-uk-test/1

Beware that it runs over several pages.

There are some frivolous questions (dogs are not legally required to wear Wellington boots) but there are a lot of difficult ones that I suspect the average Joe would struggle with.

The quiz I did previously required about 80% to pass and I got 67%.

I am not an American and I scored 92 out of 96.

97/100. Missed the number of reps in congress - picked 440-something instead of 430-something, missed the date of the constitutional convention (1787 vs. 1789), and missed that non-citizens still have to pay taxes (D'oh! should have thought about that one, but I was in a hurry to get through at that point).

I was surprised at how easy it acually was - it's basically grade-school level history and civics.

Three concepts every native born middle school kid should retain:

A) the number of reps each state gets is based on population. So that number is gonna vary state-to-state.

B) But the number of senators is rigid. Each state gets two.
C) There are fifty states.

You can be forgiven for not knowing the exact total number of representatives in Congress.

But not being able cough up a round number like "a 100" for the number of senators?


You need to be horse whipped!

Just kidding!

Last edited by naturalplastic on 20 Jul 2013, 4:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Not everyone learns all this stuff in school. I had quite a troubled education with a lot of not paying attention or doing my schoolwork and truancy and my last year of being in a normal class with a normal curriculum was sixth grade. I quit when I was 16.

A lot of this stuff seems pretty irrelevant to my life and I always found politics and history in general (except maybe certain periods) to be quite boring.

I still managed to pass the test but there were some where I just guessed and got lucky.

As an aside, here is one question:=

Walking and using public transport to get around when you can is also a good way to protect the environment because it create less pollution than when you use a car
Yes, this is correct
No, because public transport such as a bus is using more fuel then a car

Now of course we know the answer they want, but I did read once that they actually did a study in Germany and found that people using public transport was actually less fuel efficient and worst for the environment that using your own car.

Probably even worst here in London where one bus with 3 people on it creates a slow moving stop start line of cars behind it, all consequently wasting fuel, they dont take into account the effect a bus has on the rest of the traffic.

95 / 96, and I am American. I overthought one question.

I got the year the Constitution was written because I remembered the School House Rock song about the Preamble. I am willing to bet if you knew just those songs and nothing else you could pass the test.