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Could you make it TO high school in 1912?

Could you make it TO high school in 1912?

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This has some USA-centric questions.

I got 5 out of 32 wrong.

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2013/0812/1912-eighth-grade-exam-Could-you-make-it-to-high-school-in-1912/Arithmetic

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Originally posted by JS357
This has some USA-centric questions.

I got 5 out of 32 wrong.

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2013/0812/1912-eighth-grade-exam-Could-you-make-it-to-high-school-in-1912/Arithmetic
3 wrong...and these on American History...last battle of the civil war? sellting of Maryland?

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This illustrates how our society in general has brushed aside true education and force feeds today's youth a bunch of fluff.

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
This illustrates how our society in general has brushed aside true education and force feeds today's youth a bunch of fluff.
Here in Ontario they just push kids through by "finding" marks to get them from a 32% mark to a 51%. No kid "fails". And they wonder why they have kids entering universities who can't read, write or do "simple" math at anything above a grade 7 level.

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25 out of 37 or 68%. Who discovered which state and such questions were the most difficult.

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Originally posted by Ponderable
3 wrong...and these on American History...last battle of the civil war? sellting of Maryland?
Very good and welcome to the high school class of 1916.

Given the 100-year difference, a multiple choice question about the last battle of the European theater of WWII would be comparable. There were a few others like that.

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That was the third I got wrong...

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Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania 😀

I always got good marks in Geography, esp. US Geography.

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Originally posted by Suzianne
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania 😀

I always got good marks in Geography, esp. US Geography.
did they teach geography in the us back in the day?

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I was born in 1982 so no chance but I did get a math degree from Coventry uni.