Can you pass this 101 yr. old test for 8th graders?

[Vinnie From Indy]

Good luck!


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[cali]

1. yeah

with a little help from wikipedia

[Recursion]

2. Always Snopes first

This was a teachers' exam

[struggle4progress]

3. Yep. A few are tricky, though, like #6 in grammar

good -- batter -- basted
wise -- wiseacre -- wizened
beautiful -- beautifuller -- beautifullerbrushman

[East Coast Pirate]

4. That made me feel like Beavis and Butthead.

[tularetom]

5. I was surprised how well I did

Aced the geography and artihmetic parts, missed one on history, missed a couple on physiology, missed three on civil government, and totally screwed up grammar.

Of course I was in the 8th grade almost 101 years ago (actually 59 years ago, in 1954) so they were still actually teaching a lot of that stuff.

[Igel]

8. Some are tricky.

Three largest states. Alaska wasn't in the union yet.

Others are minor details now. Battles in various wars? We have 4 additional ones that are important. We pay far more attention to those than to the War of 1812.

If I had to give parts of speech, I'm not sure I'm good for school grammar from 1912. Too much Chomsky. Heck, even Bloomfield.

And others are too specific. County officers?

In general, though, the test isn't all that hard.

And do I get extra credit for finding typos?

[pscot]

6. Sister Mary Frances would be pleased to learn

that 60-odd years on, I can still diagram a sentence. This is still a pretty good good test.

[roody]

7. But it's not multiple choice!!

You will have to pay a human being to grade it. Throw it out!

[jberryhill]

9. Yeah, but go back in time and ask them to Google the answers

...and see how they do on that!

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. I wish that all math tests were like that.

It's what real life looks like.