U.S. Citizenship Test To Get Rigorous Makeover

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, you just need six out of ten questions correct.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It is quite simplistic, and it unfortunately fosters memorization over
any type of meaningful absorption of American values.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Amanda Head of Just the News says assimilation is crucial
and the test needs a revamp. The new idea is
making it a twenty question test with twelve correct answers.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
But that could also increase, so it could be a
higher threshold.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I would like to see it go up to fourteen.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
She says. There might also be a format change making
it more comprehensive. Andre Pirard News Radio seven forty KTRH