8th grade exam- 1895 [I'll bet there are PhDs today who couldn't pass this test]

Church & Son's Blog ^ | 7/22/12 | Randy Church

[stuartcr]

Lookie here dumbie

[LibWhacker]

A bushel is a quarter coomb. :-)

[LibWhacker]

Which, of course, is 4.16177197 × 10^-50 cubic light years. Now any 8th grader ought to be able to handle that! ;-)

[stuartcr]

That’s what I came up with too.

[TBP]

I can do that, but I was an English major.

[Veristhorne]

“Snopes” is often regarded as some kind of authority on factual matters, ...just a couple of liberal hacks running a phoney baloney 2-bit Charley Tuna blog in LA suburbs: viz

http://www.wnd.com/2009/03/91196/

[EDINVA]

Snopes got awfully defensive about today’s educational standards and today’s culture instead of stating that the test was or was not given in Salinas, KS in 1895.

[CodeToad]

Snopes is a liberal website, supportive of Clinton and Obama and the Democrats. I don’t believe that web page proves this test is false, it just tries to cover for our terrible education system be denouncing the test, a liberal viewpoint.

[GlockThe Vote]

Bump to later.

[Joan Kerrey]

These days:

Where does one purchase the answer sheet?

Which teachers have something to hide?

Which teacher can be bought?

Can the test be challenged as Racist or having political bias?

Can we destroy the reputation of the creator of the test?

Can we destroy the reputation of the administrator of the test?

How can we create a scandal over this test’s authorities?

Were the tests back then printed in other languages?

[napscoordinator]

lol. I loved your post!!!!! have a great one!!!! Happy Memorial Day!

[Zionist Conspirator]

Don’t you think “Howe” more probably means Elias Howe? After all, most of the other people mentioned in this questions are also inventors (not sure why Penn is in there).

[Zionist Conspirator]

It’s interesting that there are two grammatical errors on the third question

3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph

There should be a comma after the word stanza, and there should be a period at the end of the sentence.

Actually, the idea of putting a comma after the last word in a list (just before "and") is of rather recent origin. At least this is what my teachers taught me in the 60s and 70s.

[JCBreckenridge]

Doesn’t specify. Can’t see why Julia Ward Howe wouldn’t be a correct answer to the question, think of a last name followed by a first name and what they were famous for.

[Tau Food]

2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?

EXTRA CREDIT: What color is the wagon and how did the driver get a tattoo on her butt?

Stupid test, if you ask me.