Zone1 Can you pass the US Citizenship Practice Test?

[Marshal Matt Dillon]

Passing score is 60%, I believe. I got 90% on my first try, without any prep - got tripped up on one question, over something stupid. The challenge is to see if anyone can beat my score - shouldn’t be too hard. You merely need to get 100% to do that.

This is all in good fun, mind you. However, if your name is JGalt or BackAgain (or your high IQ rivals theirs), don’t even bother with this. You’re far too smart and it would be like asking a nuclear physicist what 2+2 is.

For the rest of you mere mortals, feel free to take the quiz and beat my score. Anyone who beats my score, I will consider superior in IQ level and will listen to you in debates, with keen interest - for, I have much to learn from you.

Your faithful and humble servant,

Marshal Matt Dillon

US Citizenship Practice Exam

 

[rightwinger]

10/10

 

[Dr.Destructo]

I missed 2 questions.

 

[jwoodie]

Passing score is 60%, I believe. I got 90% on my first try, without any prep - got tripped up on one question, over something stupid.

Me too. I did not know that you had to be a US citizen to serve as a juror and that you had a "responsibility" to do that.

Are those federal laws?

 

[Marshal Matt Dillon]

Me too. I did not know that you had to be a US citizen to serve as a juror and that you had a "responsibility" to do that.

Are those federal laws?

Hello, jwoodie,

Coincidentally, that’s the same exact question that tripped me up, my first go around.

I would say, without googling this beforehand, that’s a state law and requirement. I would never have guessed it was a federal law.

 

[Auld Phart]

Passing score is 60%, I believe. I got 90% on my first try, without any prep - got tripped up on one question, over something stupid. The challenge is to see if anyone can beat my score - shouldn’t be too hard. You merely need to get 100% to do that.

This is all in good fun, mind you. However, if your name is JGalt or BackAgain (or your high IQ rivals theirs), don’t even bother with this. You’re far too smart and it would be like asking a nuclear physicist what 2+2 is.

For the rest of you mere mortals, feel free to take the quiz and beat my score. Anyone who beats my score, I will consider superior in IQ level and will listen to you in debates, with keen interest - for, I have much to learn from you.

Your faithful and humble servant,

Marshal Matt Dillon

US Citizenship Practice Exam

9/10

missed on Ben Franklin

 

[jwoodie]

Hello, jwoodie,

Coincidentally, that’s the same exact question that tripped me up, my first go around.

I would say, without googling this beforehand, that’s a state law and requirement. I would never have guessed it was a federal law.

I looked it up. It is a federal law that only applies to service on a federal jury. The question did not specify that.

 

[JGalt]

I missed two.

I hope they don't deport me.

 

[Marshal Matt Dillon]

I missed two.

I hope they don't deport me.

I still think you’re one of the smartest here, Galt - at least in terms of honor and integrity.

Thanks for taking the time.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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I think there are different tests. I did not have a question about jury duty.

10/10

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[Marshal Matt Dillon]

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I think there are different tests. I did not have a question about jury duty.

10/10

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Yes, there’s a pool of about 100 questions.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Yes, there’s a pool of about 100 questions.

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I'd like to try others. I thought the one I got was too easy.

But then I got a decent education, prior to CommonCore.

I wonder how many people under the age of 30 could pass it.


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[Marshal Matt Dillon]

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I'd like to try others. I thought the one I got was too easy.

But then I got a decent education, prior to CommonCore.

I wonder how many people under the age of 30 could pass it.


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I don’t know about folks under 30, but judging from what I see these days (young folks glued to their smartphones, surfing social media and doing who knows what), the results wouldn’t be anything to write home about.

By the way, here’s a curious stat, according to an older article I found:

In terms of partisanship, Republicans outscored Democrats and independents. Forty percent of Republicans answered all five questions correctly, compared with 35% of independents and 33% of Democrats.

Poll explores whether Americans know enough to pass citizenship test

Survey tests more than 2,000 respondents on questions included on the exam immigrants must pass as part of the process of gaining citizenship.

www.usatoday.com

Edited to add: just now found this article: American History Crisis: Most High Schoolers Flunked US Citizenship Test. They're Now Adults.

 

[sartre play]

Passing score is 60%, I believe. I got 90% on my first try, without any prep - got tripped up on one question, over something stupid. The challenge is to see if anyone can beat my score - shouldn’t be too hard. You merely need to get 100% to do that.

This is all in good fun, mind you. However, if your name is JGalt or BackAgain (or your high IQ rivals theirs), don’t even bother with this. You’re far too smart and it would be like asking a nuclear physicist what 2+2 is.

For the rest of you mere mortals, feel free to take the quiz and beat my score. Anyone who beats my score, I will consider superior in IQ level and will listen to you in debates, with keen interest - for, I have much to learn from you.

Your faithful and humble servant,

Marshal Matt Dillon

US Citizenship Practice Exam

Also got 90, problem is people lie, expect some 100% posters who did not even take the test.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I don’t know about folks under 30, but judging from what I see these days (young folks glued to their smartphones, surfing social media and doing who knows what), the results wouldn’t be anything to write home about.

By the way, here’s a curious stat, according to an older article I found:

In terms of partisanship, Republicans outscored Democrats and independents. Forty percent of Republicans answered all five questions correctly, compared with 35% of independents and 33% of Democrats.

Poll explores whether Americans know enough to pass citizenship test

Survey tests more than 2,000 respondents on questions included on the exam immigrants must pass as part of the process of gaining citizenship.

www.usatoday.com

Edited to add: just now found this article: American History Crisis: Most High Schoolers Flunked US Citizenship Test. They're Now Adults.

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They simply didn't include enough questions in the test about gender identity.


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[d0gbreath]

I got 90% because I didn't know what year the Constitution was written.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I got 90% because I didn't know what year the Constitution was written.

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I'm glad I didn't get that question because I don't either.


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[Marshal Matt Dillon]

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I'm glad I didn't get that question because I don't either.


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I got 90% because I didn't know what year the Constitution was written.

I chose 1789 on another go around - getting 9/10 yet again. I have learned something too!

 

[Unkotare]

Me too. I did not know that you had to be a US citizen to serve as a juror and that you had a "responsibility" to do that.

Are those federal laws?

You didn't know that?

 

[d0gbreath]

I chose 1789 on another go around - getting 9/10 yet again. I believe it’s 1787, without googling it. I have learned something too!

It is 1787. The choices were 1776, 1781, 1783, 1785, and 1787. I picked '81 not having a clue.