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Bristol Post
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Ella Pengelly & Kate Wilson

Could you pass a UK citizenship test? Take our test and find out

You might think that already being a UK citizen would give you a leg up passing the 'Life in the UK' test, which is one of the criteria for becoming a British citizen or settling in the UK.

The set of 24 questions must be completed within 45 minutes and applicants need to correctly answer 75 per cent of questions to pass.

As well being able to answer these tough questions you must also have spent a certain period of time in the country, passed an English language test, and not have any criminal convictions.

This test includes questions on a range of aspects of British culture and history, but how hard are the questions?

Anyone who fails can take the test over and over again but each attempt to pass the test costs £50, so things could get quite expensive.

If you managed to smash your way through those questions then well done because according to statistics taken just over a year ago nearly a fifth of people taking the British citizenship test failed in 2018, reports Cambridgeshire Live.

Figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show a total of 170,986 tests were taken in the UK in 2018-19, with people failing 18 per cent of the time.

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