[vannrox]

Can you pass this test?

[a fool in paradise]

Number 7 is going to start an endless debate on the true answer.

[MrEdd]

Why, the micro-agressive spelling list has “masculine “ in it.
That is so patriarchal.
Hopefully those students had a safe space...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

My answer to #9 in History was instantly “Bill Clinton,” but I know that wasn’t exactly the answer they were looking for.

[Pravious]

I’m not sure I would get ANY of those math problems right.

I did, however, notice that one of the spelling words is misspelled (typo). :-)

[Sacajaweau]

The 1912 test proves what? Not much. Most people were farmers and being an apprentice was the best schooling there was.

Go back and look at our 8th grade tests in 1957 in Upstate.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Maybe, but I’m bumping so as to see the comments at lunch time.

[gattaca]

Questions #6, history...

Congress can not pass a law that turns an act into a crime after the act was committed.

[Maine Mariner]

I did pretty well; I have not heard of the Wasatch river.

[carmen2017]

The Greatest way I know how to start a day
“I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.”

[MHT]

Please read “The Whistling Season” by Ivan Doig. It is the story of a one-room schoolhouse in Montana at the turn of the 20th-century. Great book. This was the type of test they were prepping for...and it really prepared them for real life in the process!

[xp38]

Is Bullitt county anything like Hazzard county?

[Dr. Sivana]

Even then, the questions presuppose more girls than boys in school!

Seriously, I would have done fine on math and grammar, and weaker on geography and history (I never did know my rivers). On the history, I plead that there is more than twice as much U.S. history since that test was administered, and the focus is more likely to be on the period around a couple of World Wars than the relatively placid period (labor movements, panics and KKK notwithstanding) of the early 20th century.

[texas booster]

I do not think that any local high schoolers could pass the Civil Government portion.

“County” officials? HA! No kid knows, until they have been arrested.

#6: Name three rights given Congress and two rights denied Congress by the Constitution.

Seriously, are any kids even taught that anymore?

[Dr. Sivana]

There are a number of potential answers to several of these questions. We here in Columbus, Georgia claim "The Last Battle of the Civil War", though our marker calls it "The War of 1861-1865" (remarkably polite). It all depends on how you define battle, and also which battles were actually part of that particular war.

I cringe when I consider the modern answers for "five ways to maintain health". This is a superior example of a good test, compared to the one from Ohio that is often trotted out, that spends most of its time on farm-centric weights and measures (e.g. Hogshead). This test is mostly applicable today.

[sasherm13]

This exam is nothing but a bunch of micro-aggressions:

a) They ask to spell “masculine” – that’s sexist

b) Arithmetic 7 asks about boys and girls – shouldn’t they be allowed to decide their own gender without our white privileged patriarchal society forcing them to conform?

c) Grammar 5 promotes violence

d) Grammar 7 forces religious views on our youth – violation of separation of church and state

e) Why are so many questions about what men can do? Why can’t we examine womyn?

/sarc

[Kommodor]

I somehow feel undereducated now...

[lonevoice]

I would bet good money that a majority of today’s college graduates couldn’t score 50% on this eighth grade exam from 1912.

[Skooz]

bfl