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by deepsun 461 days ago
Just to clarify, "competent" is a long stretch. It's more like "how are you" -- once you can just _read_ that phrase you're passed. There are couple more questions, but civics are much harder than English (e.g. how many voting representatives are there in Congress?).
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> civics are much harder than English

you can learn them all in your native language, and it really doesn't take a lot (done it).

by contrast, you then still need English competency to answer the questions.