College: An expensive institution designed to eliminate common sense from those who attend.
Given most people’s error-prone nature, requiring 30 out of 30 on ANYTHING is probably too harsh.
Big whoop. It’s quite easy to fail any test, even simple ones on subjects that you know very well, if you want to.
We don’t have literacy tests any more. They are illegal and have been for decades. What is the purpose of this exercise? The Left are trying to tie voter ID laws to suppression of minority voters similar to these literacy tests.
Ah, this is where Common Core came from!
Some people are still fighting the Civil War it seems.
I read the test. I don’t find it to very hard. But then again, I didn’t go to Harvard.
Ooooohhhh. How about if we take away their student ID and then film them while they go vote? Oops. They can!
I had no problem with this test. It requires following directions in sequence.
If today’s Harvard students cannot pass this test, then most of them should still be in the 7th grade.
Yes, our children are being dumbed down, and no, there is nothing racist about this test.
Anyone with a basic education should be able to pass this.
Doesn’t seem that difficult to me but, should have never been used to qualify one’s right to vote.
Not sure I said that correctly.
White queers, blacks and illegals. Think about it...
Stuck in the past, obsessed with eidolons from a bygone era. I thought that was supposed to be the failing of us conservatives, not our enlightened betters.
99 out of 100 Harvard students failed the test on how to vote properly... TWICE... and the test was open book, multiple choice.
The gal in the black sleeveless top: not guilty (by Cambridge standards)
1. Democrats are vote-suppressing racists.
2. Chip and Muffy aren't nearly as "gifted" as their parents and their Harvard administrators tell them they are....
Now give the test to a bunch of homeschooled 9th graders and see if they do better than the harvard students
It was a straight basic literacy test: it gave a paragraph on Francis Scott Keyes and The Star-Spangled Banner, beginning "Francis Scott Keyes wrote The Star-Spangled Banner." The first question was "Who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner?"
Nothing wrong with literacy tests per se, but some of the southern states really did abuse the concept.
That is not difficult. It just requires reading carefully and following directions.
Those tests were bogus, no doubt.
But I like the unspoken premise of the article: we’re supposed to be astonished that a Harvard student can fail anything.
Lesson 2: Harvard kids are really dumb if no one could pass this test.