US Citizenship Test
I think I’ve taken the old one and passed, but apparently there is an updated one. I think that this should be given to high schoolers at the beginning and end of high school to make sure they learned American History and government decently. Don’t misunderstand me, Americans who are born citizens shouldn’t HAVE to take the test to remain a citizen or anything like that. What I do think it is completely irresponsible not to be able to pass it. And pass it well, I mean (I think I’m rather more informed than the average person as I am a nerd and genuinely like things many people think are boring, but I didn’t meet my standard).
I took this portion and got 7 out of 9 of the NYT version. So, I got about 77% which isn’t great. I’m not sure why they didn’t have 10 or 20 to get an easier comparable result. 12 out of 20 is now the requirement where previously it was 6 out of 10, both 60% which is an extremely low pass. Which just means the test is longer, that is NOT a long test. I do think nuance is important.
I took this version and got 16 out of 20. I chose some dumb answers. Oh, well. The NYT version is harder.
Oh, and I did these off the top of my head. No studying.
The actual test is not multiple choice. I wonder how that would affect my score, but then so would studying. I took American government in high school, oh, 12 years ago, and I don’t think I did so hot there were just some details that were so you know boring and detailed, I feel that understood econ better. Yes, you read that right. I was struggling generally then which didn’t help either.
I’m thinking of adding a subject a day to study, since I’m rather erratically pursuing or not pursuing all my random interests and topics I think I should know, a little structure would help.
6 Comments
Ivy Spargur
I’d fail not doubt about it.
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Livia Rose
Thanks! I’m here for all the Christmas posts.
Marian
Lolll I completely bombed the NYT test. 😆 To be fair, I haven’t studied these topics deeply since grade school so maybe I would’ve done better back then. Some of the questions seem rather irrelevant to me… I’d rather see questions like “what are the core concepts of the Declaration of Independence” than “do you know the names of these battles.”
Livia Rose
Presumably there are such questions, I think there are over a 100 from the potential list and potential citizen is asked 20 of those. I’d like to eventually look at all the questions and make sure I could answer them all at some point.
Davida Chazan
8 out of 9, and 18 out of 20! Not bad.
Livia Rose
That’s great! 89% and 90%.