The Australian citizenship test!

[numbercruncher]

Fancy doing the proposed Immigration test ?

New immigrants to this country will soon have to sit a multiple choice test on Australian values before being granted citizenship.

The government yesterday released a 40-page draft guide detailing Australian values and sample questions for the quiz.

It's time to put yourself in the shoes of a new arrival to Australia. Do you know enough to call this place home?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/quiz/default.aspx?quizid=2420


I just did it got 19 out of 20 correct, of all things i could of got wrong I got the date of Australia day wrong


Good-Luck, post result below if you like

 

[theasxgorilla]

Re: The Australian citizenship test !

100% of course.

 

[sam76]

Re: The Australian citizenship test !

100% of course.

yep, me too.

 

[Stan 101]

19/20... I got our national flower wrong...Damn my lack of horticultural experience..

 

[jammin]

Ahhhhh!!!!! only 19/20; Couldn't get my head around the difference between "head of guvmnt" and "head of state". When will they come for me????. I have an Aussie passport, honest. Its not a fake, no-one would intentionally plant a photo that bad in their passport.

 

[juw177]

Is there a bit of censorship going on here?

This not on the smh, but is one of the top stories on http://news.bbc.co.uk/

edit: ooops, it is there, but it looked like a story about Don Bradman.

 

[imajica]

19/20 got the national flower wrong - I thought wattle would be too obvious

they should have put in this question:

What is the difference between a Bogan and a Westie?

hehe

 

[Awesomandy]

I've got 20/20, and I'm a migrant myself.
I'm not really sure if having such a test is a good idea, but if I can get 100% without studying, then it's definitely not asking for too much from any potential immigrants.

 

[Rafa]

i thought this one was a trick question...

12. Who do Members of Parliament represent?

Australian businesses
The people of their electorate
Themselves
Their local footy club


But besides that... all good!

 

[Julia]

19/20. Didn't know the year of Federation.

 

[Happy]

Does test have 20 questions, or there are 200 questions and there are 20 randomly picked for every candidate?

 

[nioka]

i thought this one was a trick question...

12. Who do Members of Parliament represent?

Australian businesses
The people of their electorate
Themselves
Their local footy club


But besides that... all good!

I had to tell a white lie to get that one right. The test is better than I had expected it to be and anyone expecting Aussie cits should expect to have to pass it.

 

[websman]

13/20 Not bad for a Redneck.

 

[insider]

I got seventeen out of twenty I thought I would've failed cos I don't know Australian History from a hole in the wall. I guess that's what makes me Australian Y'know going through schools that don't teach anything about it

 

[drmb]

18/20 - what do I know anyway, was born in Africa. Ask me about the great, green, greasy Limpopo River, all covered with fever trees. Then I'll know everything.

 

[samtomo]

20/20 - guess i must know something after all...

 

[wayneL]

i thought this one was a trick question...

12. Who do Members of Parliament represent?

Australian businesses
The people of their electorate
Themselves
Their local footy club


But besides that... all good!

ROFL

Damn I was tempted to put the real answer down.

19/20

 

[wayneL]

You only have to get 12/20 right to pass? You could just about guess that many based on common sense. On that basis, it seems like a total waste of time.

 

[barnz2k]

too true.
Read this on SMH thismorning and they listed them but didnt show the options (that I saw anyway). And at that point I thought I would fail miserably.

However with multiple choice, I got 17/20. Better than I thought - I know absolutely NOTHING about government which is half of it, but I guessed them.
Id say take away the multple choice options!...but then Id fail.. and I was born in and raised in Aus...

 

[greggy]

You only have to get 12/20 right to pass? You could just about guess that many based on common sense. On that basis, it seems like a total waste of time.

Did the test and was lucky to get 20. I'm a bit cynical about the test as I reckon its just more government paperwork. A fun, but useless test just the same.