8th grade exam from 1912 makes modern people look dumb

[Mysteroo]

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/newly-discovered-eighth-grade-exam-from-1912-shows-how-dumbed-down-america-has-become

So I'm a straight A student, average of 31 or so on the ACT and the equivalent of about the same on the SAT, near-perfect score on the math portion of both, in the running for valedictorian, I've gotten letters from places like Harvard, I've even been to an actual nerd-camp.

But this?

As a senior in High School I don't know if I could have quite passed this with flying colors. Either this was one heck of a middle school, or education has really gone downhill.

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[Jairo]

there was a president impeached in 1912?

[Nasoa]

The math ones are arithmetic and patterns, and the rest seems irrelevant. It's become less about the concrete and more about concepts, it seems to me.

[Mikoyan]

Lol wtf?

Question 1: what is 2+2?

Question 2: explain how arteries in the human body work

[Night Fox]

is this a joke
most of this is easy
the only "hard" part is history, but that's just because history classes are 100% memorization which is not my forte

[Tom Gunn]

I can see all of you "smart" people are already flooding this topic going "this is too easy".

[XR-7]

there was a president impeached in 1912?

It isn't current history.  It was Andrew Johnson.

OT: I actually know quite a bit of stuff on there, but yeah, the average high schooler would definitely not know most of it.

[Nikolan]

some of those questions are kind of vague

[Renekar]

Lol wtf?

Question 1: what is 2+2?

Question 2: explain how arteries in the human body work

1: 7

2: i don't loving know do they give blood to your arms and legs

[mod-man]

this is too easy.

nah im dumb as a stump. i dont know any of this lol

[Jairo]

It isn't current history.  It was Andrew Johnson.

I phrased my thing weird

but that's pretty bs

[Night Fox]

I can see all of you "smart" people are already flooding this topic going "this is too easy".

um? did you look at the test? I'm not going to pretend that I know a lot, but this test isn't hard
some of it doesn't make sense tho. like wtf is a "degree of comparison"

[SeventhSandwich]

I can see all of you "smart" people are already flooding this topic going "this is too easy".

but it is easy.

[Jairo]

"Tell what you know of the Gulf Stream"

seems easy enough

[Night Fox]

I guess I shouldn't expect much from a website called "endoftheamericandream" that claims to be "waking people up"