Canadians' hearts may be brimming with pride as Canada Day approaches, but a new poll suggests their minds aren't full of the knowledge needed to pass a citizenship test.

Canadians’ hearts may be brimming with pride as Canada Day approaches, but a new poll suggests their minds aren’t full of the knowledge needed to pass a citizenship test.

    • grte@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I passed, but this is the question I got wrong:

      1. What is the name of the Mayor of Richmond, British Columbia?

      I feel like this is kind of a wildly specific question for a test like this, haha.

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I took a different one and got 60%. I’d say that’s not horrible given that I never had a Canadian education and grew up almost entirely in the US. One about the voters’ list is weird. Can someone who will not be 18 on election day get on the voters’ list? I would assume only eligible voters could be on the voters’ list (which could include people who recently lost eligibility, I guess).

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      the Richmond Public Library has practice tests

      My ego is already crushed for the day. You want to see me cry when I discover HOW unCanadian I am?!?

  • FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 year ago

    My (American) wife took it last year and passed. She studied the hell out of it for months though. After all that she said it was an easy test.

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Some of the questions mentioned in the article seem a little vague, are they normally multiple choice or something? For instance:

    Who established the first European settlements in Canada?

    I was torn between Champlain and Cartier (google says it was Champlain) but the answer they were looking for is just France.