How well would you do on an 8th grade exam?

[Bateluer]

From the 1930s?

http://www.good.is/post/this-8th-gr...outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=outbrain

Complete PDF below. Not a single multiple choice question on it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/education/v/tests.pdf

Disregarding the specifics about West Virginia's local counties and industries, I still think I'd struggle with some of the questions.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Given that three of the questions are very particular to a state that I've never been in, yet it is assumed that the person taking the test is living there. I would get three wrong right off the bat.

 

[gophins72]

i'd miss 5,6,7 and probably half of number 10.

 

[OOBradm]

Civics, question 2: "Show how good home life tends to decrease the need for government"

I'm not sure people today would even agree with that question.

 

[Moonbeam]

Civics, question 2: "Show how good home life tends to decrease the need for government"

I'm not sure people today would even agree with that question.

Are you suggesting folk today are crazy? A good home life decreased need period. What is need but unfulfilled desire. A good home live fulls everything.

 

[VoteQuimby]

I love how one of the History questions references the "World War."

 

[JTsyo]

From the 1930s?

http://www.good.is/post/this-8th-gr...outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=outbrain

Complete PDF below. Not a single multiple choice question on it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/education/v/tests.pdf

Disregarding the specifics about West Virginia's local counties and industries, I still think I'd struggle with some of the questions.

English #2 is multiple choice.

 

[lord_emperor]

PENMANSHIP
"Write the following as a specimen of your best writing:"

LOL!

Can't write cursively and can hardly print, to watch me you'd think I use some ineligible shorthand. Last writing instruction I can remember was in 4th or 5th grade.

Good thing I learned to type, wrongly, with four fingers.

 

[Numenorean]

Well on the reading one # III, my favorite author doesn't write poems.

I would also fail penmanship.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Most of it seems to be random and/or useless nonsense.

A stanza of a poem from my favorite author? LOL. I can give you my favorite equation instead, 1000x more useful.

 

[Bateluer]

English #2 is multiple choice.

Fill in the blank.

 

[nageov3t]

given adequate preparation time, I'm sure I'd do fine.

the fact that I'm not required to know things like 5 cities in West Virginia (does WV even have 1 city?) doesn't diminish my capacity for learning and memorization.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Most of it seems to be random and/or useless nonsense.

A stanza of a poem from my favorite author? LOL. I can give you my favorite equation instead, 1000x more useful.

exactly.

 

[Red Dawn]

(does WV even have 1 city?)

Well there's Hog Swaller, Podunk, Hooterville, Bumfuk and Double Widesville.

 

[OOBradm]

Are you suggesting folk today are crazy? A good home life decreased need period. What is need but unfulfilled desire. A good home live fulls everything.

Yes, that's what I was suggesting. Also, I disagree with lots of posters in this thread, I don't think these questions are mostly nonsense. Lots of these questions require you to be an educated and upstanding member of both your community and country. Math isn't everything, nerds.

 

[Wyndru]

I wouldn't do that well. Then again, I'm sure the 8th graders learned and reviewed the answers to these answers in the weeks leading up to the exam.

 

[JTsyo]

Fill in the blank.

there are 2 choices for each blank.

 

[Exterous]

Can't write cursively

Doesn't matter much anymore. I turned in a paper/project (can't remember) in cursive and my professor returned it because 'My handwriting was so bad' and 'he couldn't even make out most of the letters.' He didn't even know such a thing as 'cursive' wirting existed and didn't believe me when I told him

[for you ATOT naysayers out there I used to have superb penmanship]

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I don't know how I would do on the test, but I'm pretty sure I could beat up an 8th grader.

 

[Patranus]

Just goes to show how backwards educations has become in this country.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I wouldn't do that well. Then again, I'm sure the 8th graders learned and reviewed the answers to these answers in the weeks leading up to the exam.

This. I could do reasonably well on it now, and I'd ace it if I actually spent an hour or so refreshing/learning specifics noone from outside west virginia would know, but really who cares? It doesn't really show anything it's just a simple test. Oh noes, they didn't use multiple choice we must be so much worse off than them; give me a break.