8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895

[Judy Hamilton]

could you pass this test??????????

http://mwhodges.home.att.net/1895-test.htm

[Joel Merrill]

I don't think any of my teachers in any of my grades could pass that test.

Joel

[Joanne Vergin]

No, me neither.

[BobHunt]

Id be lucky if I passed this one after college LOL

[Billy Cox]

could you pass this test??????????

http://mwhodges.home.att.net/1895-test.htm

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.htm

This is a good rebuttal of the implication that people over 100 years ago were better educated than we are today:

'What nearly all these pundits fail to grasp is "I can't answer these questions" is not the same thing as "These questions demonstrate that students in earlier days were better educated than today's students." Just about any test looks difficult to those who haven't recently been steeped in the material it covers.'

[Bob Wright]

And as usual, they verified that it was False. I never forward emails or give them serious consideration without checking with Snopes.