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Our local town newspaper posted a test from 1888 - any school students hoping to go on to High School had to pass this!!! If you had to get them ALL correct, not sure I would have made it back then as Math and I DO NOT and NEVER have gotten along!!!!
Here's the test, but don't post your answers on line....it's just for fun for you at home!!! I'll post the CORRECT answers in a couple of days if you want!!!!

 

I always failed at geography.
Think I can pass the English.
Thought I knew math. Might get one right.

They kept me back, I didn't graduate to high school

 

If I could make it to #10....even with wrong answers.....just seeing number 10....
I'd burn the questionaire .....& go work on the farm !!

 

Think if you got them all right they made you a teacher.

 

Oh dear, I took a look and decided not to even try. Readin, writin and rithmetic are not as easy as back when I was a youngin.
And math was never easy.

 

I'm so with @komokwa - number ten is not worthy of an answer.

 

Yeah! pretty tough test to just get into HS, i am impressed.

 

It's a bit like what the GPS navigation systems have reduced us to today. Years ago, one had to have the ability to read maps, judge road distances, know what direction you're heading is by looking at the sky, etc. To a large degree, technology has compromised our fundamental skills.

 

SMEH!! Who wants to go to high school anyway.
That's a pretty intense test for back in the day.

 

This is fun seeing all the responses!!! And thank goodness for the GPS in my phone!!!! Answers tomorrow...Wednesday!!!

 

Did anyone try #12? It would be one thing if all the quantities could be expressed in 27ths, but once you divide 63/27 by 192/27, you have a mess on your hands. Think they gave you the answer; it's: What?

 

Assumption of facts not in evidence! I lived a lot of years driving in the wrong direction and wondering "where in the blue $#%! am I?"

Not any more.

Plus, I have a whole host of skills for which my ancestors would likely burn me at the stake.

 

Yes. And I'd like to know how you turned 7 1/5 into 27ths?

 

I can get most of them. Division my non-decimal fractions is a little dicey. River transport...not a clue. I'd be using freight lines or US 80 anyway.

 

It's no coincidence.

"The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"

Read it.

 

answer to number 3........ " In a boat "

& that's just about the time you feel the ruler smack down on your hand !!

 

Q:You're paddling upstream when your outboard loses a tire .How many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse?
A:42, because ice cream doesn't have any bones...

Hey, I'm a retired Firefighter : Just put the wet stuff on the red stuff....lol..Next question !

 

By deciding it was 1/9 & not the 1/s it looked to me last night. Now it does look like 1/5, requiring a rethink. Have to feed the cats right now, but looks like it may be doable as 135ths.