38% failed in US citizenship test

Recently Newsweek magazine gave the standard citizenship test to 1000 U. S. citizens and the result shown 62% passed while 38% failed. The U.S. citizenship test includes 100 questions based on five categories: American history, American government, systems of government, rights and responsibilities, and incorporated civics. For the test-taker 10 questions out of 100 are selected randomly and any person who desires to become a citizen must be able to answer at least 6 correctly. The result is very much surprising for all and the experts interviewed by the magazine blame for national cluelessness and on the huge educational gap among the rich and poor.

You can also take part in this test to check your own knowledge by visiting www.newsweek.com and click on the red banner available on the center of the page. No matter what so ever score you receive just go on. All the best! Below you can check out some of the stats from the poll's findings about this US citizenship test‎.

• 73% could not say the reason behind fighting of the Cold War.
• Amazingly 70% were unaware that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
• The Constitution was written at the ... Constitutional Convention, not known by 65%.
• 59% did not know that who fought for women's rights? Or who is the speaker of the House? The answer is Susan B. Anthony and John Boehner (R-Ohio) respectively.
• Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, not able to answer by 44%.
• The U.S. fought Germany, Italy and Japan at the time of World War II was not figure out by 40%.
• Surprisingly 29% could not name that Joe Biden is the vice president.
• Martin Luther King fought for civil rights was not known by 23%.
• Independence Day on the calendar was not found out by 6%. It’s very awful.

The magazine stated that Civic ignorance is nothing new now but the world is becoming gradually more uncongenial to incurious know-nothings. People form sturdy opinions with false details is the biggest problem as per Newsweek. The prime example is the debate over the national budget.

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