Citizenship Guide: Citizenship Tests

Oath Of Citizenship Dept: The new test, introduced March 15, was based on a bulked-up citizenship guide released a year ago to give immigrants a richer picture of Canada's history, culture, law and politics, according to CBC. Failure rates for the new test rocketed to about 30 per cent when it was introduced prompting officials to revise the rules to avoid clogging the system with thousands of would-be Canadians who, because they had flunked, often had to plead their cases before busy citizenship judges and failure rates for immigrants writing citizenship tests have soared since the spring when tougher questions and revamped rules made it harder for newcomers to become Canadian. A group of 61 new Canadians take the oath of citizenship during a ceremony held as part of 2009 Canada Day celebrations in Vancouver. Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press The 63-page guide, Discover Canada, replaced a slimmer volume dating from 1995 that had fewer facts to memorize. The failure rate for the old citizenship test, with questions drawn from the smaller guide, ranged between four and eight per cent. As reported in the news.
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