Link: DallasNews.com - Notice expected soon on new citizenship test.
Thousands of letters are expected to be sent out as early as next week informing immigrants in 10 cities they can volunteer to try out a new citizenship test.
The letters will be accompanied with study guides to help potential participants study for the trial exam. Federal officials hope to start trying out a new set of draft questions about a month after the letters are sent.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Homeland Security Department, has been working to redesign the test that immigrants take to become citizens. Officials say they want the test to be more meaningful.
Draft questions that could end up on the final test will be tried out on volunteers in Albany, N.Y.; Boston; Charleston, S.C.; Denver; El Paso, Texas; Kansas City, Mo.; Miami; San Antonio; Tucson, Ariz.; and Yakima, Wash.
Test takers only have to get six of 10 questions right to pass the civics portion of the test.
The agency already has dropped two questions from the 144 it had planned to try out. One asked what the federal minimum wage is and another asked test takers to name a battle in the American Revolution.
