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Last year in History we talked about the citizenship test and the kinds of knowledge that we thought people should perhaps need to be an Australian.

One of the concerns was that the questions were too hard for many migrants and covered things that many Australians didn’t know. In fact a good quarter of our class of 14 and 15 year olds could not pass this test when we did it in class.

AUSTRALIA’S controversial citizenship test will be reviewed after the release of figures showing large numbers of would-be citizens are flunking the exam.

Out of 10,636 people taking citizenship tests carried out since their introduction in October, 2311, or more than 20%, failed.

Migrants flunk citizenship test – National – theage.com.au