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MADem

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1. An eighth grade education was probably valued at close to a "junior college" education, today.

Mon Aug 12, 2013, 10:03 AM

Aug 2013

Sixth grade was like high school.

I went to a school where we had tests that weren't terribly dissimilar to this one. The teacher would also dictate to us, and we would be required to write down what the teacher wrote. We'd write a paragraph, the teacher would give us a little lecture on what we had written, and then we'd go on to the next paragraph. We'd do three to five of these.

The paragraphs would enable the teacher to grade us on (the quaint concept of) penmanship, punctuation, spelling and understanding words in the context of a sentence. We'd also get a little lesson on the topic of the essay between paragraphs.

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Can You Pass This 8th Grade Exam From 1912? [View all] marble falls Aug 2013 OP

An eighth grade education was probably valued at close to a "junior college" education, today. MADem Aug 2013 #1

Apart from imperial units, the Arithmetics section is a doozy. DetlefK Aug 2013 #3

Yeah, I think we'd all have to "go back to school" to ace that thing! MADem Aug 2013 #6

I think many of us would have to go back to school to pass the tests our OWN kids have to take. pnwmom Aug 2013 #15

Hmmmm Old Codger Aug 2013 #2

those are completely different questions sharp_stick Aug 2013 #4

Not the same test, and it's posted by the Bullitt County Geneological Society.... MADem Aug 2013 #5

That is actually pretty similar to tests I took in school JayhawkSD Aug 2013 #7

All in all that test needs some editing. sharp_stick Aug 2013 #8

The "test" was from a newspaper that looks contemporay to the 1912 test. The reporter, typesetter,.. marble falls Aug 2013 #13

There's a typo - LiberalElite Aug 2013 #9

How come teabaggers are such bad spellers if Rozlee Aug 2013 #10

I had to look up what "kalsomining" was. n/t Loudly Aug 2013 #11

I think those 8th graders would also find it difficult passing the tests required of our 8th graders pnwmom Aug 2013 #12

Touché pauliedangerously Aug 2013 #14