Canada’s citizenship numbers are rising. How many passed the test?
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On Canada Day, more than a thousand people will be pledging their oath to the country as new Canadian citizens at scheduled ceremonies.
On Canada Day, more than a thousand people will be pledging their oath to the country as new Canadian citizens.
Ceremonies for 1,130 citizenship recipients are scheduled to take place across the country on Saturday, according to numbers Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada shared with Global News.
Passing a citizenship test is one of the requirements to officially becoming Canadian – and the majority who took the exam this year were successful, recent IRCC data shows.
Between January and May 2023, a total of 119,053 tests were completed – out of which 92 per cent passed, while the rest failed.
It was a similar story last year, with 91 per cent of the people passing among the roughly 260,000 citizenship tests that were completed.
By comparison, Canadians would be less successful, recent polling suggests.
A Leger survey of 1,512 Canadian adults found that only 23 per cent would pass the citizenship test, based on their answers to 10 randomly selected questions.
The average score of the Canadians who were surveyed was only 49 per cent – where 75 per cent is needed to pass the test.
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