Life in the UK test in the news

For those of you who have not yet taken the test, I suspect there will be changes to the study guides soon. This is based on claims made by several historians and scholars who have expressed their dismay over content that misrepresents Britain's role in the slave trade.

Here is a link to the story today (22 July 2020) from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/22/home-office-urged-to-correct-false-slavery-information-in-citizenship-test

Yes I saw this too, thanks for flagging here. Just got the FLR (M) extension so we were looking at my wife completing this sooner rather than waiting until just before ILR. As we've got 2.5 years, will see if there are any changes afoot in the next 6 months or so.

Just got the FLR (M) extension so we were looking at my wife completing this sooner rather than waiting until just before ILR. As we've got 2.5 years, will see if there are any changes afoot in the next 6 months or so.

The Life in trhe UK test was brought in by the new Labour government and I can't see this ending as the UK's other main political  parties support this too.

Questions get changed on the test. e.g. when Labour brought this Life in the UK test in, they put questions on how to claim benefits from the UK and it stated something like, that Tony Blair (the then Labour leader) was benevolent.  With Labour voted out of government and the two political parties, the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives, now in government, the benefit questions got replaced by history questions.

The Life in the UK test doesn't have a time limit. The changes in the questions last time, didn't invalidate the pass.

I was mostly referring to the books they sell you as study guides. Mine is "the official 2019 edition" and I took the test in March 2020. I know a lot of the content is going to change (frankly, some of it was already out of date), so anyone who does not plan to take the test soon (I don't think they're offering it yet anyway) should hold off on buying revised (post-Brexit?) study guides.