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Title: 1912 eighth grade exam: Could you make it to high school in 1912?
Source: CSM
URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Cultur ... high-school-in-1912/Arithmetic
Published: Aug 12, 2013
Author: Andrew Averill
Post Date: 2016-02-14 17:51:30 by Southern Style
Keywords: None
Views: 329
Comments: 14

1912 eighth grade exam: Could you make it to high school in 1912?

By

, Correspondent

August 12, 2013

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A picture of the top of the 1912 eighth-grade exam shows the spelling words teachers would quiz their students on. Notice the word endeavor is misspelled "eneeavor."

A 1912 eighth-grade exam was donated to a museum in Bullitt County, Ky.

The Bullitt County Genealogical Society put a scanned copy of the 1912 eighth-grade exam on its website today. 

This exam was called the "Common Exam" in 1912 and was "apparently a big deal," according to the Society's description of the scanned document. Students in Bullitt County would come to the county courthouse once or twice a year to take the exam. 

For passing the exam, students could be given scholarships to attend high school ("which was also a big deal back then," the site says).

The exam consists of 56 questions, a 40-word spelling test, and mentions a separate reading and writing test. 

The test quizzed students on mathematics, grammar, geography, physiology, civil government, and history. 

Try your hand at some of the questions. Would you have made it into high school in 1912?


Poster Comment:

Sample test HERE. Thank goodness for geography, it helped offset the deficiency in Grammar.(1 image)

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#1. To: Southern Style (#0)

Clearly, I'd have been a fourth-grade drop-out.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-02-14   17:59:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Lod (#1)

Clearly, I'd have been a fourth-grade drop-out.

I'm glad I stayed in school until the 8th grade; otherwise my wife and I might never have met. After we were married, the principal let me sign her report card for the next two years.

StraitGate  posted on  2016-02-14   18:07:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: StraitGate (#2)

Yeah, yeah, I need to re-post a pic of your wife and family. :-)

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-02-14   18:10:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Southern Style (#0)

Didn't they have McGuffy's Readers back then? ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2016-02-14   20:09:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Southern Style (#0)

I didn't try. No doubt it is similar to the 1895 8th grade exam from from Salina, KS.
www.indiana.edu/~p1013447/dictionary/8thgradeexam.htm

So you think this class is hard.

This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the Salina Journal. 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS 1895

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts. Per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per >>m?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?

Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.

DWornock  posted on  2016-02-14   21:37:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: DWornock (#5)

I believe that these exams are bogus.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-02-14   21:40:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: DWornock (#5)

the discovery of America by Columbus.

Undoubtedly, they did not believe that Norsemen discovered America about 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus.

www.history.com/news/the-viking-explorer-who-beat-columbus-to-america

Nearly 500 years before the birth of Christopher Columbus, a band of European sailors left their homeland behind in search of a new world. Their high-prowed Viking ship sliced through the cobalt waters of the Atlantic Ocean as winds billowed the boat’s enormous single sail. After traversing unfamiliar waters, the Norsemen aboard the wooden ship spied a new land, dropped anchor and went ashore. Half a millennium before Columbus “discovered” America, those Viking feet may have been the first European ones to ever have touched North American soil.

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2016-02-14   21:46:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Lod (#6)

They have to be.

ocw.mit.edu/high- school/mathematics/

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-02-14   21:46:58 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#8)

No, they don't.

Just because you see it on the internet, you do not have to believe it.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-02-14   21:51:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Lod (#9)

'Tis a shame then. :-]

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www.wired.com/2013/09/send-me-to-heaven-app?1

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2016-02-14   22:00:01 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: NeoconsNailed (#10)

That, along with their new minuscule print, is why I cancelled my Wired subscription.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2016-02-14   22:05:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: DWornock (#5)

No doubt it is similar to the 1895 8th grade exam from from Salina, KS

Good Lord!

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat

Southern Style  posted on  2016-02-14   22:35:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: BTP Holdings (#7)

That is probably true. The difference is, unlike Columbus, they didn't make a record for the rest of world so of course they would not receive credit. If you discover something that would be useful but tell no one, what value is it?

DWornock  posted on  2016-02-15   18:06:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: DWornock (#13)

There must have been some sort of record, otherwise we would not know of them. Besides, what would the early Italians and Spaniards know of the New World? They thought the Earth was flat and you might fall off the edge. LOL

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2016-02-15   20:50:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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