U.S. Citizenship Questions Info

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With the new U.S. citizenship questions going into effect on October 1, 2008 there are many future U.S. citizens that fall into an interesting category. They will actually get to choose which test they want to take, the new or the old.

Basically anyone that applied BEFORE October 1, 2008 and is scheduled for his or her naturalization interview AFTER October 1, 2008, can choose to take the current test or the redesigned version.

Naturally many of these people ask, “Which set of citizenship questions are harder?” Well I have done a little research online to help answer this question, and perhaps help these future citizens make their choice.

What’s the “official” stance straight from the USCIS?

An article on Galesberg.com this month quoted the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as saying, “On Oct. 1, the naturalization test will become more involved. Those studying for the test will be asked to learn more material and think more critically, which will make the material learned “more meaningful” to the applicants. I translate “more involved” to mean “more difficult”.

The flipside.

However, Jack Schneider , when writing for The Christian Science� Monitor, interestingly point s out: “Although the citizenship test they’re rolling out in October pays more attention to underlying political principles and structures, about half of the questions are rephrased questions from the 1986 test. Some questions focus on concepts like the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, but the test still requires applicants to correctly answer six out of 10 questions chosen from a published list of 100. And that means cramming. The original purpose of citizen education programs has gotten lost in the shuffle.”

The verdict.

So perhaps the USCIS is just trying to make themselves look good by claiming they have made progress on the redesigned test where in actuality the citizenship questions have largely remained unchanged or slightly rephrased. One thing seems clear, and that is that the structure and process of the citizenship questions and testing has remained largely unchanged. I also browsed a few citizenship related forums see what folks’ personal opinions were, and the common belief among most was that the new citizenship questions are just a repackaged version of the old test with slighly longer and more difficult to remember citizenship questions and answers.

New Citizenship test study help.

If your English is still a bit rusty or you are squeezed for time to study the new test, I would recommend this simple but very effective citizenship questions learning software.

Best of luck!

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