The length of the real test, spread across all five chapters of the handbook. Give yourself 45 minutes, count your correct answers and see whether you reach 18.
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This is one piece of it. See the whole journey on belonguk.appSet a timer for 45 minutes, the time the real test gives you, and answer all 24 before you open any answer. Then check them. You need 18 correct to pass the real thing.
Each answer comes with the reason for it and the section of the handbook it is written from, so a wrong answer tells you where to read next.
Written by Belong UK from the official handbook, not by the Home Office. The answer to each is behind Show the answer.
Equal incomes for all workers
Tests the boundary of the list. Equal incomes are nowhere in the handbook; the other three are named principles.
Handbook, 1.2 The values and principles of the UK
The Falkland Islands
The handbook names St Helena and the Falkland Islands as overseas territories. The other three are Crown dependencies.
Handbook, 2 What is the UK?
The best preserved prehistoric village in northern Europe
Skara Brae is a Stone Age settlement and the best preserved prehistoric village in northern Europe.
Handbook, 3.7 Early Britain
1801
The census began in 1801 and has been repeated every ten years since then.
Handbook, 4.1 The UK today
The set of principles by which a country is governed
The handbook's definition. A constitution is the set of principles by which a country is governed, including its institutions and how their power is controlled.
Handbook, 5.2 The British constitution
The rule of law and individual liberty
Reshaped so it is not a second not-question on the same list. Each wrong pair puts one real principle beside something the handbook never lists.
Handbook, 1.2 The values and principles of the UK
They are linked to the UK but are not part of it
Overseas territories such as St Helena are linked to the UK but are not a part of it.
Handbook, 2 What is the UK?
Roundhouses
Bronze Age people lived in roundhouses. They also made pottery, jewellery and tools of bronze.
Handbook, 3.7 Early Britain
Because of the Second World War
The only break in the ten-yearly census since 1801 came during the Second World War.
Handbook, 4.1 The UK today
It is not set out in any single written document
The constitution is uncodified. Its principles are found in laws, conventions and traditions rather than in one document, so plenty of it is written but not in one place.
Handbook, 5.2 The British constitution
Individual liberty
Individual liberty. The other three are also principles, so the question turns on knowing which one covers personal freedom of choice.
Handbook, 1.2 The values and principles of the UK
Government
Crown dependencies have their own governments. They share the monarch and send no MPs to Westminster.
Handbook, 2 What is the UK?
In round barrows
Bronze Age burials were in round barrows, which is how much of what we know about the period was found.
Handbook, 3.7 Early Britain
People aged 85 and over
Tests the UK today. Better living standards and health care have raised life expectancy, so there is a record number of people aged 85 and over.
Handbook, 4.1 The UK today
The UK has never had a revolution leading to a completely new system of government
The handbook explains that the UK's institutions developed over hundreds of years without a revolution that swept the old system away.
Handbook, 5.2 The British constitution
Fundamental values and principles all should respect
The handbook opens by saying British society is founded on fundamental values and principles which all those living in the UK should respect and support.
Handbook, 1.2 The values and principles of the UK
The Union Jack
The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Flag, commonly called the Union Jack.
Handbook, 5.3 The British constitution (the Union Flag)
An Iron Age hill fort
Maiden Castle is one of the largest Iron Age hill forts and can still be visited.
Handbook, 3.7 Early Britain
Pensions and health care
An ageing population means more people drawing pensions and needing health care, which raises the cost of both.
Handbook, 4.1 The UK today
Makes a speech summarising the government's policies for the year ahead
The State Opening of Parliament. The monarch's ceremonial role includes a speech setting out the government's programme for the coming year.
Handbook, 5.2 The monarchy
Law, customs and expectations
Tests how the handbook says the values are safeguarded. It names law, customs and expectations together.
Handbook, 1.2 The values and principles of the UK
Three
The Union Flag is made up of three crosses, those of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick.
Handbook, 5.3 The British constitution (the Union Flag)
The first coins minted in Britain
The first coins minted in Britain date from the Iron Age and some carry the names of Iron Age kings, which is why the period is taken as the start of British history.
Handbook, 3.7 Early Britain
England
The population is spread very unevenly. England holds much the largest share, well over four fifths of the UK total.
Handbook, 4.1 The UK today
464 questions, drilled chapter by chapter in the handbook’s own order, five a day with the ones you miss coming back, a mistakes deck, and a full mock that is the real thing: 24 questions in 45 minutes, pass or fail at 18.
Written by Belong UK from the official handbook, not by the Home Office, and checked by someone other than the person who wrote each one. The real sitting uses its own questions.
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