How would you have done as a middle school student 100 years ago? Thanks to this cool copy of an official Bullitt County, Kentucky 8th grade exam from 1912, you can now can find out.
The test focuses on Spelling, Reading, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, Physiology and Civil Government. And it’s tricky.
Just for fun, I made a mini-quiz comprised of 10 of the questions from the original exam. Test yourself below. Good luck!
Here’s how the original exam looked in 1912:
Want the answers? Click here.
Thanks to Bullitt County History for the awesome resource.
holy too hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would NEVER be able to get a passing grade on this thing even though I am in 8th grade! 😮
Same
its easy
I thought most of it was fairly easy and I just finished 8th grade.
This was not EASY!!!!
Uuuuh…………0.0……
Now I know that thing’s just get easier in the future LOL:)
That is WAY to hard, even for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Well, I’m only in 4th grade.) 😐
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😀 :U :B :! 😕 :C
Uhh… Can I just get the “F” for this one?
NO! YOU CAN GET A “D-” IF YOU ANSWER ONE QUESTION!
No, but if u answer one question,You can get a D-!
Hey B.N, can you answer a question?
Holy Comment Deleted I would not get that! that Geography?! ooops F- sorry teacher :0
Look at history number 2—”Sketch briefly Sir Walter Rawleigh, Peter Stuyvesant.” And “percent” is “per cent!” Peechtival!
Seriously, if they had exams like that NOW, I don’t think I would last 2 minutes of this D:
if they did you’d be prepared. if you worked hard. like the homeschoolers!
I wuld! hahaha! im asome! arithmutik 2 is 21 and 159.
:O
I could do this if i really studied A LOT. That’s the power of homeschool.
Yeah! homeschooling rocks! whose homeschooled here?
ME! I could do most of it, but some of it would KILL ME!
hooray for seventh grade homeschoolers doing high school algebra!
me 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 :- ) 🙂
same. I can pass the English, spelling, and math right now!
plus reading and writing (!OBVIOUSLY, I’m an author!) and most of history. and some geography.
FYI I checked my answers.
Homeschooling’s awesome! 😀
I agree with Longhorn!!!!! THE POWER OF HOMESCHOOLING!!!!
You are awesome!
Home school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I could answer one school
well, the government is dumbing down public schools…
(sorry if I sound like a jerk, but its true!!!!)
History Q 7 My A Two Presdents Who Died In Office William Henry Harrison And Zachary Taylor Three Presdents Who Died From A Gun Wound Abraham Lincoln James A Garfield And William McKinley.
Teacher can i have the answer key?
yeah….um…..no.
#1 for history is ponce de leon
#2 of #1 is Ferdinand Maggelan
#3 of#1 is this one french guy that i forgot the name of.
#4 of #1 i have no idea lol
THINGZ JUZT GOT REAL (o_o)
Phonograph is Thomas Edison, for copyright is the thing that tells you the year that the thing was made,three largest states Alaska,Texas,Montana. Soooooo….how is this hard?
Because it is.
uhh…. an you answered three questions? what are the correct answers to the rest? do tell.
or maybe it’s not so easy.
by the way-like all the homeschoolers, I passed most of this test as well.
that’s REALLY HARD! I wouldn’t pass.
I’m homeschooled.I like it! P.S: the test looks hard
I’m also homeschooled this test actually was not that hard. I got 90%. I learned all of this stuff in school.
The mini-quiz was pretty easy… the real thing… AHHHHH!!!!
whatttttttttt
Super easy for me. Of course that is because I study hard and absorb facts like a sponge.
100 percent… the answers i didnt know i gogled… lol 😛
70%… I should have gotten the state one.
pretty sad how THE MAJORITY got only 0 TO 50 PERCENT!!! come on america!! 😛
50% not bad!!
Interesting. I fared a lot better when I was home schooled two years ago.
im in the 6th grade and i got 100% on my first try
Well, I guess the MATH is fine…I learn CBSE curriculum
There’s a spelling mistake in the spelling section. Eneeavor isn’t a word!
i have not started 6th grade and i got a 90
My dad got 8\10
Looking at the test I’d like to thank the nuns who were my first teachers sixty one years ago for having given me a good solid education. I think I’d get a B.
On another note I see a lot of the comments referring to the high quality of homeschooling. I used to look askance at homeschooled kids until it came closer to home. Some years ago my sister was forced to homeschool her youngest son as he refused to attend the local Junior High. She had a Masters Degree in Fine Arts and was able to connect with other homeschooling parents and arranged tutors who included a prizewinning author and a physicist who had been on a Nobel Prize winning team. After he was old enough to attend High School she convinced him to at least give it a try. After a week his only remark was that if he’d known that school was this easy he’d have gone back sooner. A strong testament to my sisters’ teaching abilities.