Over the weekend a number of news services carried the story
about the new US citizenship test. The test requires immigrants who are applying to become citizens to
answer correctly six of ten questions drawn from a list of 100. The
old test had an 84 percent pass rate. Now, after six years of work at a
cost of $6,500,000 the new test is expected to pass over 92 percent of
immigrants on their first try. We’re
told the redesign was so rigorous that “at least 15 questions were eliminated as a
result of the pilot because they proved too difficult.” The architect of
the new test said “we don’t seek to fail
anyone.”
Out of complete modesty for the overwhelming pass-rate success of the
new test, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Emilio Gonzalez,
said
that “the higher success rate resulted
from immigrants having to study harder to answer the more meaningful questions.”
Come on Emilio why not take credit for
where credit is due. Not just any agency could spend $6 million on a 10-question
fail-proof test. This kind of spending must make your Department of Defense pals jealous.
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