Citzenship test
Nov. 23rd, 2010 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelThere's been this sample UK citizenship test that's going around. Some say it's a spoof. I don't know why it doesn't have a .gov.uk domain, but the domain is registered to TSO, who aren't particularly in the business of spoofing.
I was a little worried to see that
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This is false. The Church of England is called "the Church of England" in Scotland, when people have need to refer to it. On the other hand, the Scottish Episcopal Church, a body which is organisationally completely separate from the Church of England, but is in communion with it, is called "the Episcopal Church" in Scotland.
I wouldn't ordinarily point this out lest I be accused of splitting hairs (though I'm sure I'd think it was less hair-splitting if I was Scottish). But tests like this rely on points of fact and hair-splitting is rarely a concern with them.
Even if I understood why it was important that people who didn't know obscure facts of nineteenth-century legal history were prevented from immigrating, this slip-up does not give me a great deal of confidence in the test.
I was a little worried to see that
- I failed it. (But not very worried, since I hadn't done any revision, and I don't really give a damn in which particular year in the 1800s women were given the right to divorce their husbands.)
- The answer key contained this spurious piece of information:
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This is false. The Church of England is called "the Church of England" in Scotland, when people have need to refer to it. On the other hand, the Scottish Episcopal Church, a body which is organisationally completely separate from the Church of England, but is in communion with it, is called "the Episcopal Church" in Scotland.
I wouldn't ordinarily point this out lest I be accused of splitting hairs (though I'm sure I'd think it was less hair-splitting if I was Scottish). But tests like this rely on points of fact and hair-splitting is rarely a concern with them.
Even if I understood why it was important that people who didn't know obscure facts of nineteenth-century legal history were prevented from immigrating, this slip-up does not give me a great deal of confidence in the test.
