Topic: British citizenship test (Read 18072 times)

HS93 (RIP) · « **Reply #50 on:** July 02, 2010, 08:58:06 am »

Quote from: PMK on July 02, 2010, 08:22:32 am

Mine was 1%.

well you can count up to twelve on your fingers

Peter

PS I beat you by a few %

dodgy geezer · « **Reply #51 on:** July 02, 2010, 09:44:24 am »

Quote from: HS93 on July 02, 2010, 08:58:06 am

well you can count up to twelve on your fingers

Peter

Being able to count up to twelve is shortly going to be banned by the EU ....

DG

aestus57 · « **Reply #52 on:** July 02, 2010, 01:28:21 pm »

65%..... and failed..... and I am British.... but then I don't think I want to be any more!!!!

Jimmy James · « **Reply #53 on:** July 02, 2010, 10:31:35 pm »

They only want to ban it because they can't figure out how many pennies are in a shilling (12d)or in a £ for that matter (20s)...and havent yet figuard out how to find the other half of a crown (2s 6d)
Freebooter

Sorry to our younger readers ---This dates back to the times when we used real money

tigertiger · « **Reply #54 on:** July 02, 2010, 11:20:51 pm »

Ah! Jimmy, you remind me.

Guinea
Quid note the size of a modern 20
10 bob note
Crown
Half-crown
Florin
Bob
Tanner
Threpence
Penny
Ha'penny (or as my grandad used to say 'ape knee'
Farthings

Too young to recall
White fivers
Mites

RaaArtyGunner · « **Reply #55 on:** July 03, 2010, 02:24:24 am »

Quote from: tigertiger on July 02, 2010, 11:20:51 pm

Ah! Jimmy, you remind me.

Guinea
Quid note the size of a modern 20
10 bob note
Crown
Half-crown
Florin
Bob
Tanner
Threpence
Penny
Ha'penny (or as my grandad used to say 'ape knee'
Farthings

Too young to recall
White fivers
Mites

Much the same in Oz

as well as
Fiver,
Tenner
Brick

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #56 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:28:51 am »

Quote from: tigertiger on July 02, 2010, 11:20:51 pm

Ah! Jimmy, you remind me.

Guinea
Quid note the size of a modern 20
10 bob note
Crown
Half-crown
Florin
Bob
Tanner
Threpence
Penny
Ha'penny (or as my grandad used to say 'ape knee'
Farthings

Too young to recall
White fivers
Mites

Do they not still use Guineas at horse sales?

Watchleader · « **Reply #57 on:** July 03, 2010, 09:04:09 am »

Guinea's are used in horse sales only as a reference.
I can't imagine a guinea coin has changed hands at a horse sale for close on eighty years.

Dreadstar · « **Reply #58 on:** July 03, 2010, 09:33:17 am »

By the way,if you use the Assyrian method of counting,you can count up to 156 on your fingers.

Terryt · « **Reply #59 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:48:42 am »

How does that work then, Dreadstar?

Tug · « **Reply #60 on:** July 03, 2010, 02:56:07 pm »

I am saying now't 6 mins and [Questions answered correctly: 18 out of 24 (75%) ]
But then uz immegrants knew it all that is why we is oot!

But portside 28%?

toesupwa · « **Reply #61 on:** July 03, 2010, 03:37:13 pm »

You have failed the practice citizenship test.

Questions answered correctly: 11 out of 24 (46%)

Thank F*** I'm in California eh!...

Dreadstar · « **Reply #62 on:** July 03, 2010, 05:58:20 pm »

The Assyrian system works thus,using the thumd of the left hand,you count each segment of eack finger,giving you a total of 12. Now using the right thumb,count each segment of each finger as whole units of 12,this gives a total count of 144 for the entire right hand. You can then count off another 12 on the left hand,giving a grand total of 156.

PMK · « **Reply #63 on:** July 03, 2010, 07:48:55 pm »

"...you count each segment of eack finger,giving you a total of 12."

I make it 14.
Think I'll stay with binary.

Shipmate60 · « **Reply #64 on:** July 03, 2010, 07:54:09 pm »

PMK,
If you use the thumb to count the segments you cant count the 2 of the thumb!!

Bob

PMK · « **Reply #65 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:13:52 pm »

Ah, hear that - thanks. Now I see where 156 comes in. (Like I berk, I was using the left thumb to count the right-hand segments).

But wouldn't binary yield an overall larger number with the same amount fingers?... something like 1024?

Jimmy James · « **Reply #66 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:45:46 pm »

Sixes and Twelves are easy I even Taught an American friend how to do it.... 5 fingers + 1 hand = 6 ....10 fingers + 2 hands = 12 = 1 shilling

Freebooter

PMK · « **Reply #67 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:23:01 pm »

Quote from: Essex2visuvesi on July 02, 2010, 08:41:15 am

1% ers in Bike gang terms means that they have killed foir the club (been watching a series on TV about M/C Clubs)

What you were watching, they couldn't have done their homework properly. Death doesn't necessarily have to come into it. Poor old Tiger is now probably conjuring-up visions of some huge hairy bonehead coming to kick his butt just because he got the highest score. Me, I prefer the original meaning of the 1%'er - the REAL meaning. Much cooler.

Besides, I lied. I didn't score 1%. I didn't even waste my time doing it. Which, as I rightly suspected all along, turns out to be just another typical gvnmnt' fiasco anyway.

derekwarner · « **Reply #68 on:** July 04, 2010, 01:33:48 am »

.....I suspect there is no reference in marking such a test

...has anyone actually seen the correct answer sheet?

Just a computer loaded spread sheet that does not permit a 100% correct answer result

And my result?............ = 46%

But then again I only answered 50% of the questions.....so stastically I could have been awarded 92% ........

if I'd completed the answer to all questions

Derek

tigertiger · « **Reply #69 on:** July 04, 2010, 01:40:32 am »

I suspect that there is a handbook with many questions in. You need to learn the answers and the sample test on line is not the actual test. The sample test is only 24 questions. I would hazard a guess that the full test in 100 question, in a proper test centre. Someone else alluded to this earlier.

A bit like the driving theory test.

tigertiger · « **Reply #70 on:** July 04, 2010, 01:45:35 am »

Here we go, a series of books here.
http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?AF=A10123&FO=1278112&trackid=002363

Bryan Young · « **Reply #71 on:** July 05, 2010, 07:07:58 pm »

Another use for knuckles:- an easy way to remember how many days in a month....clench left fist, start with raised knuckle and that is 31 days, the hollows are 30 days...repeat. Stupid, but it works! BY.

Boatswain · « **Reply #72 on:** July 06, 2010, 08:01:26 pm »

Quote from: bilzin on June 30, 2010, 07:17:42 pm

I failed it too....good job I've still got me green card for the states I guess, although in 2005 I turned down US citizenship...anyone blame me ?

Bill

You turned down citizenship here? Wow! They surely don't give it away, but look at our immigration issues!

It's not such a bad place. There are worse places, you know.

tobyker · « **Reply #73 on:** July 09, 2010, 06:35:02 pm »

"To have been born british is to have won first prize in the lottery of life" Cecil Rhodes.
American senator- "99% of motrorcyclists are good and decent citizens". Which is why the Angels call them selves 1%ers

bigfella · « **Reply #74 on:** July 10, 2010, 12:50:13 am »

50% here but at least your questions don't have Cricket as a subject like the proposed Australian questions. One of the questions was what was Don Bradmans batting average?

But I do believe that any migrant to any country should be able to speak the language and be able to have enough knowledge of things like customs and basic history about the country that they are going to call home before becoming a citizen.

Regards David

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RaaArtyGunner

Watchleader

Dreadstar

Terryt

Dreadstar

PMK

PMK

PMK

Boatswain

bigfella