More people flunking Canadian citizenship tests

[JakeYYZ]

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/arti ... ship-tests

Under the old citizenship test the failure rate was in the 4-8 % range. Under the new citizenship test, introduced this spring, the failure rate rose to 30%. OMG! What to do? What to do? You don’t need a Masters Degree in “Organizational Leadership” or graduate level in "Cognitive Studies" and "Psychology" to find the solution to “fail”. Let’s just make the test easier!!! Others might opine; the citizenship test is supposed to keep the dumb ones out of Canada. That argument my friends, is the difference between a nuts and bolts engineer and a social scientist.

[Frank Gallagher]

A mexican friend of mine was given the french version of the test and passed it despite not knowing french.

Granted there are a number of similarities between spanish and french but that is still ridiculous.

[Expat]

We should raise the bar...a la Suisse!

[. ._]

Who cares? I'd bet 80 percent of Canadian BORN here couldn't pass it.

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/

-istp

[Rowdy]

Follow the swiss! Make it as difficult as possible for the uneducated and unwilling to make this place their new home away from home. Maybe then we'd see less of a strain on many of the social assistance systems...

Immigration is there to help the country.. not hinder it.

[dashx]

80%.

Ya.....that about sums it up....

I meant....

That was my mark on the sample test.......BC was a killer....

[mcrit]

Wonder if these fine caucasian weirdos would pass it...

Don't @#$! with the Freemasons. They will get you.

[JakeYYZ]

Nota’ match to the Knights of Columbus..yah toffee nosed b*stard. We’ll bore you to near death...and then cleave ya’ with our quarter moon sorters.

[cdnpilot77]

Wonder if these fine caucasian weirdos would pass it...

...based on their taste in clothing, I would be willing to give a chance to immigrants

The guy with the beard looks like the guy from the Dubliners
http://Www.youtube.com/watch?v=au30c9ZM ... ata_player

[Slats]

If a person can't be bothered to study enough to get 80% on a 20 question multiple choice test based on a 63 page book, they don't deserve citizenship.

[Nark]

Ya, they should just jump the border like they do here.

[niss]

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free......unless they are Mexican.

[Lurch]

80%.

Ya.....that about sums it up....

I meant....

That was my mark on the sample test.......BC was a killer....

I also got 80% out of the 110 or so questions, but I have no clue about BC/Richmond politics so I got almost every question wrong, how am I supposed to know who got elected in Richmond.

I do feel bad that I got the Sir Arthur William Currie question wrong. Considering YYC had a base named after him

Lurch

[ahramin]

90% on 10 questions.

I'm happy to see the change.

[dashx]

I will say this:

I started off by doing the 5 questions at a time. Some of the questions repeated (and I was getting 100% - well they did make it easy) so I decided to take the full test.

I should mention that I was alone at the time and drinking the vino tinto so I consider 80% not too bad.

If my wife had been with me I would have scored better. She is a far better Canadian than me. Plus she was a Junior Liberal AND met Trudeau. Oh i am so jealous...

[200hr Wonder]

88% on all the questions asked. Though apparently I don't know anything at the local level. Also they are fast at updating the test. Michelle Jean is not the GG any more and they have that changed already. I suppose it is bad I did not know who the new GG was.