Eighth-grade Final Exam from 1895. Can you pass?

[mk72]

I found this on Jordan Maxwell's website:D
Proof that we are getting more stupid by the century?:D

http://www.jordanmaxwell.com/articles/8th%20Grade%20Test.pdf

[auron]

Nope! There is no way I'd pass that test. :eek:

[danielg]

They aren't difficult. Remember the pupils had text books and obviously had lessons/revision leading up to the exam too.

[auron]

I must be dumb then. :(

[Anders Lindman]

Maybe one could just dish out all of the questions on Yahoo! Answer, and wait for the results? :D

[phoebe]

I'm not sure most adults could do that great at
A modern eigth-grade test either.
You're taught a lot of crap at school now
(And by the looks of it, nothing has changed)
And the reason adults couldn't pass that test
Isn't because they are 'stupid'
It's more that since leaving school
They have had no need to retain that
Useless knowledge.
I mean what school test do you know of
That is a real test of intelligence?
All they are is a test of memory.
If you have a good memory,
And are able to retain lots of useless info you'll do well.
Intelligence is about problem solving, abstract thinking etc
Not about memorising facts and details.

[Anders Lindman]

If you have a good memory,
And are able to retain lots of useless info you'll do well.
Intelligence is about problem solving, abstract thinking etc
Not about memorising facts and details.

I have started to not care so much about facts and static information. Some information is good to have in mind, but the vast majority of information I outsource to the Web.

[mk72]

I agree school is just spoon feeding – but the spoons are much bigger now than then. What stood out in this exam is that there are very cognitive, intellectual and even practical brain “exercises” that if it is used everyday instead of a “quick fix” systems, will bring about a cognitive behavior pattern that deals with problems, solutions and opportunity, rather than suggestive information processing patterns. It even covers day to day monetary and business understanding and practices.
That was what I thought when I saw it anyway.

[mk72]

I must be dumb then. :(

Me too!:o:D

[fuknut]

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


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Dunno :)

I'm dumb too :D

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3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?

Answer (My version): For fish to swim in ........ :)

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[william_mac]

I'm not sure most adults could do that great at
A modern eigth-grade test either.
You're taught a lot of crap at school now
(And by the looks of it, nothing has changed)
And the reason adults couldn't pass that test
Isn't because they are 'stupid'
It's more that since leaving school
They have had no need to retain that
Useless knowledge.
I mean what school test do you know of
That is a real test of intelligence?
All they are is a test of memory.
If you have a good memory,
And are able to retain lots of useless info you'll do well.
Intelligence is about problem solving, abstract thinking etc
Not about memorising facts and details.

Adults don't remember or retain information because schools no longer teach students to learn, they only teach students to memorize for short term tests. As soon as a test is taken, then the student typically begins studying for another test.

Students are taught to memorize it now, and then when the subject is over, the need for the information is over.

Back then students actually LEARNED things and retained informaiton because of the way they were taught the information. Ethics, critical thinking, and personal opinion were just as much a part of learning as facts. So, in leading up to these exams, students would have been required to supply their opinions on subjects that were taught, and provide oral exams, opinion essays using the grammer they were taught, work out equations for things that the student would come up with, supply their opinion about actions conducted by people and countries throughout history during war and economic periods of strife, and even to draw pictures of maps in order to better understand the lay of the land.

In America, kids are taught that what they are learning is helping them, and that it is more advanced. But, we're getting stupider because our mentality is "get good grades to get a good job", when really I could do their jobs without any education. That is why they forget, it's because they were taught to have a completely different agenda other than that of education for education's sake. Education in order to prevent tyranny, education in order to prevent becoming downtrodden, education in order to develop the mind's capability to think on its own and with personal opinion derived from the broad study of fact.

I was speaking with a man who was sueing a local University (Clayton State University) for requiring students to have laptops, and for even supplying them to the students. At first I thought that is insane, and that laptops were necessary and help students learn better. The man showed me the records though, and said that the average grade in those schools (in the top classes) was a high A, and ever since laptops it's been sinking to a low B, and the overal average of the school has sunk. He said it's because when they were taught things like how to do mathematics and geometric things in their head, or by drawing on paper, then they retained the information better. Yet, now with the laptops, they don't retain nearly as much, nor do most of them remember after they're done with college. So, I agreed with him. Who pressured the University to do that? Federal government he said. What sad shit.



-William
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[auron]

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This one cracked me up ..................



Answer (My version): For fish to swim in ........ :)

:D

THANK YOU
Nice!!! :D