yay!

[winterbadger]

I tried the sample test from this site that markets guides to the 'Life in the UK' test and got an 83% (I like to think that if I had studied I would have given a correct answer to at least one of the two questions I missed).

It sounds as if the revised version of the test they are doing from this autumn onwards is slightly less full of ridiculous statistical trivia (if I were to fail, if and when I get to take this for real, and had to retake it, I shudder to think the obloquy which would be heaped on me...)

Of course, I was a sucker and bought the study materials for the old test, just for fun, back when it was announced. But I have no sorrow in knowing they will be obsolete.

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[silme.livejournal.com]

Banks in England will exchange them, even the plastic Northern Ireland fivers, for Bank of England notes. Larger shops will take them. I've had Waitrose down here in Lymington (as far south central as you can get without being in the Solent :) take Northern Irish tenners. Sometimes it also depends on the age of the clerks. I've had young clerks look at Northern Irish and Scottish notes with some suspicion. :)

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

Oh can you exchange them in English banks? I had no idea. Thanks. I shall resort to that in extremis. I think it would hurt my national pride to do it! If possible I'd draw out some English money for use in England and save my Scottish money for spending in Scotland...

I know what you mean about inexperienced clerks, but most of the rejections I've had have been from stone-faced Yorkshire women in their fifties :-)