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Worried about the new test?
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced the 100 questions and answers that comprise the civics component of the new naturalisation test.
USCIS will administer this new test to applicants from October 2008.
More than 6,000 citizenship applicants volunteered to take a pilot version of the test at ten USCIS sites across the country. The new questions were selected after USCIS, a panel of history and government scholars, and English as a Second Language teachers conducted a thorough review of responses to 142 items on the pilot.
The good news is that pass rates by test component were: civics 93.7 per cent; reading, 99.8 per cent; and writing, 99 per cent. This would seem to bode well for those taking the test after October 2008.
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21 January 2008