Sample questions on the current exam include: What are the colors of our flag?
They will meet on a regular basis to review the content of the exam as it relates to changes in the RFID industry and will determine when changes to the current exam are required.
Gretchen Dykstra, commissioner of consumer affairs, said that the current exam, last revised in 1998, needed to be a lot better.
"It's not harder than the current exam," said Alfonso Aguilar, chief of the citizenship office at Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that devises and administers the test.
He is particularly condemning of the sorts of pupils the current exam system produces, saying: "The new world does not need container-loads of young men and women whose knowledge is narrowly academic and subject-specific which they can regurgitate in splendid isolation in exams".
Like the current exam, the replacement will test applicants in two areas: proficiency in English and knowledge of United States history and government.
However, he does have some worries about the current exam reforms.
The new exam is three hours and fifty minutes (with optional essay) versus the current exam's three hours and forty-five minute length.
Many natural-born Americans would be stumped on that one (it's the Seventh), but more than 90percentt of the applicants pass the current exam.
I would like to see the current exam system replaced with a portfolio assessment model.
This might sound like a handy Australian golfer from the 1970s, but it describes why it is difficult to compare the results of the current GCSE exams with the old O-levels.
