More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma.

This fall Iowa began giving its version – a multiple-choice test drawn from the same exam immigrants must pass.

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Only 60% of the more than 100 Burlington students who took it passed on the first try. In surveys, the average American does a lot worse than that.

For years the standard civics test required six correct answers out of 10, drawn from a bank of 100.

In 2020, the Trump administration replaced it with a harder one. It required 12 correct out of 20, from a bank of 128.

The Biden administration tossed that version and went back to the original. Trump brought the harder test........

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