38% of Americans fail the citizenship test

[GlockedandLoaded]

This just blows me away. i took the test and did not do 100% but i passed.
some of the questions these people missed are ridicules


http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/take-the-quiz-what-we-don-t-know.html

 

[4play]

Yep it's ridiculous, but I am not suprised.

 

[HiPower]

When you give a bunch of people a test that have been out of school for years, and haven't paid any attention to other than their personal lives in that time, and then compare them to people who have been boning up for the test, what else would you expect? Quite typical of Newsweak, though.

 

[mr ed]

I just downloaded the questions last week for my sister-inlaw to study and they are a lot harder than the ones asked 5 years ago when my wife took the test.

 

[JPK]

38%? I'd really like to see the demographics on these folks.

 

[.45Fats]

just went through and took it...spaced on the name of the speaker of the house...not really any trick questions...I can see the difficulty for an immigrant but seriously no excuse for someone who grew up in America...

 

[Cinaet]

50% of that 38% are probably the kind of folks who are working 80 hours a week to make ends meet plus trying to raise a family, people who don't have time to keep up to date on who the latest crook in Washington is.

 

[GlockedandLoaded]

50% of that 38% are probably the kind of folks who are working 80 hours a week to make ends meet plus trying to raise a family, people who don't have time to keep up to date on who the latest crook in Washington is.

thats a good excuse to not know what the law of the land is, or who we fought in WWII.
good to see some democrats on the board tho

 

[Cinaet]

thats a good excuse to not know what the law of the land is, or who we fought in WWII.
good to see some democrats on the board tho

Maybe when you start working for a living you'll understand what I'm talking about.

 

[poopgiggle]

50% of that 38% are probably the kind of folks who are working 80 hours a week to make ends meet plus trying to raise a family, people who don't have time to keep up to date on who the latest crook in Washington is.

Lots of those questions were trivia that doesn't really have anything to do with being a good citizen. However, if you don't know what the US's economic system is or what the powers of the Federal government are, you shouldn't be voting IMO.