The test is from England, but American tests were almost as challenging. Have a look some time at American Algebra texts from the early 1900s. The notion of teaching even a tiny fraction of that material (at that level) to current American students is ludicrous.
Amen.
At the old Georgia Military Academy (in Marietta), which is now a conference center/hotel, they have on display the curriculum for high schoolers from the 1860's.
If anyone thinks it's easy, or desgined to make sure none of the students suffer from "low self-esteem," they are sorely mistaken.
Well, don't be too hard on American schoolchildren. They learn all about putting condoms on bananas and cucumbers, the various types of STD's, positions for homosexual sex, Muslim holidays and beliefs, why communism and socialism are good, studying art such as crucifxes in urine, and so on.
We know A LOT in America!