Test 38 — Life in the UK Test Practice
About Test 38 (Official 3rd Edition Handbook)
Test 38 is a free 24-question practice test for British citizenship naturalisation and Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR / settlement) applicants in the United Kingdom. Every question is written directly from the official Home Office handbook, Life in the UK: A Guide for New Residents (3rd Edition), covering British values, UK history, society, and government. To pass the official Life in the UK Test (booking fee £50 at gov.uk), candidates must answer at least 18 out of 24 multiple-choice questions correctly (75% pass mark) within 45 minutes.
Life in the UK Test 38
How many British casualties were there on the first day of the Battle of the Somme?
Correct Answer: 60,000
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme — 1 July 1916 — there were approximately 60,000 British casualties, of whom nearly 20,000 were killed. It remains the bloodiest single day in British military history.
The battle lasted from July to November 1916 on the Western Front in northern France. British and French forces fought against Germany in an attempt to break through the German lines. The catastrophic first-day losses were largely caused by soldiers being ordered to advance on foot across no-man's land into concentrated machine-gun fire. The battle is a defining moment of the First World War.