Only 1 in 3 Americans pass 'US Citizenship Test', survey finds; are you one of them?
The multiple choice test only requires that 60 out of a 100 questions be correct to pass but the survey found that only 36% of the participants were successful
A survey has found that only a third of Americans were able to pass the the multiple choice "US Citizenship Test." According to the survey conducted for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, many stumbled over extremely simple questions such as the cause of the Cold War or even just naming one thing, out of many, that Benjamin Franklin is famous for. According to the survey, Americans, 45-years-old and younger, only had a passing rate of 19%.
This is not even the worst part of the news. The multiple choice test only requires that 60 out of a 100 questions be correct to pass but the survey found that only 36% of the participants were successful.