24 questions · 45 minutes
Life in the UK Practice Test 12
This set places the strongest emphasis on British history and Government, law and citizenship. Check each answer to reveal its explanation, then continue to the next question.
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Test 12 combines handbook areas, with extra weight given to British history and Government, law and citizenship. Use the topic links to revise a weak area before or after your attempt.
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Practice Test 12
You have 45 minutes to answer 24 questions. You need 18 correct answers to reach the 75% pass mark.
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Prepare with Practice Test 12
This fixed set contains 24 Life in the UK questions drawn from the full question bank. Its chapter distribution is Chapter 1: 1, Chapter 3: 9, Chapter 4: 6, Chapter 5: 8. The questions will not be randomly replaced when the website is rebuilt, so you can return to the same test when reviewing your progress.
You need 18 correct answers to reach the 75% practice pass mark. Explanations appear after each checked answer, making it easier to identify a weak topic before moving on.
Review difficult subjects in the Life in the UK test guide and use the key facts pages for focused revision.
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Eight questions covered in Practice Test 12
These are the first eight questions in this fixed test. Answers and explanations are available here for revision, while the interactive test above keeps the full timed flow.
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Sample question 1 · Chapter 4
The UK continues to be a world leader in the development and manufacture of motor-sport technology:
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Answer: TRUE
There is a long history of motor sport in the UK, for both cars and motor cycles. Motor-car racing in the UK started in 1902. The UK continues to be a world leader in the development and manufacture of motor-sport technology.
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Sample question 2 · Chapter 5
UK laws ensure that people are not treated unfairly in any area of life or work because of their age, disability, sex, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sexuality or marital status:
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Sample question 3 · Chapter 3
Who was Emmeline Pankhurst?
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Answer: A suffragette
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. She set up the women’s Franchise League in 1889, which fought to get the vote in local elections for married women. In 1903 she helped found the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). This was the first group whose members were called ‘suffragettes’.
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Sample question 4 · Chapter 3
What was achieved with the Magna Carta?
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Answer: It restricted the King’s power
The Magna Carta established the idea that even the king was subject to the law. It protected the rights of the nobility and restricted the king’s power to collect taxes or to make and change laws. In future, the king would need to involve his noblemen in decisions.
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Sample question 5 · Chapter 3
During which period did the Beatles become popular and social laws were liberalised?
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Answer: 1960s
The decade of the 1960s was a period of significant social change. It was known as the ‘swinging sixties’. There was growth in British fashion, cinema and popular music. Two well-known pop music groups at the time were The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It was also a time when social laws were liberalised, for example in relation to divorce and to abortion in England, Wales and Scotland. The position of women in the workplace also improved.
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Sample question 6 · Chapter 5
The Senedd has 30 Members.
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Answer: FALSE
False. Following the May 2026 election, the Senedd has 96 Members.
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Sample question 7 · Chapter 5
Anyone can make a complaint about the police by writing to the Chief Constable of the police force involved.
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Sample question 8 · Chapter 4
Which British sportsman won five consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games in the rowing category?
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Answer: Sir Steve Redgrave
Sir Steve Redgrave won gold medals in rowing in five consecutive Olympic Games and is one of Britain’s greatest Olympians.