24hourlondon

I took the government's new citizenship test  and I got 57 per cent. I'm not proud. The pass mark was 75 per cent. I felt should have been good at it. I've got a 2:1 in politics from a reputable university, I've spent my working life at newspapers dealing with statistics and I've got nothing against the kind of history that involves learning dates. I just, ahem, didn't know many of the answers. Obviously this made the the girly swot in me feel a bit of a failure, though I can at least take some comfort that  I'm not on my own . It appears to be the kind of test for which your teacher has to tell you the exact answers beforehand because the syllabus is very narrow. GCSE anyone? I mean, if I ever knew which year women received the right to divorce their husbands, why would my adult brain retain that information? Moreover I'd maintain that the final question - what is the difference between the average hourly pay rate for men and women? - is not only...