[Simpleman]

it took to get an 8th grade education in
1895
>
> --Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only
> had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have
> passed the 8th grade in 1895?
> This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA. It
> was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey 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"lie,""play," and "run."
> 5. Define case; Illustrate each case.
> 6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
> 7 - 10. 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/bushel,
> 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 the 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
> metre?
> 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 of
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,
> 1865.
>
> Orthography (Time, one hour) Do we even know what this is??
>
> 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.' (HUH?)
> 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, sup.
> 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 North America
> 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 the 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 the inclination of the
earth.
>
> Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. Gives the saying "he
only
> had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning, doesn't it?! Also shows
you
> how poor our education system has become...
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[DukeNukem]

Preach it brother. Many college students could not pass this test today. That shows the state of our society.

Clearly a few of the questions reflect terminology that had been specifically taught to them during their years in school.



P.S. Clearly from an era where farming was the primary industry of the community. I wonder how many people know how many gallons there are in a bushel ---------------------------------> 8 dry gallons (US bushel) [beware a dry gallon (4.405 liters) is not a fluid gallon (3.785 liters) - DOH]
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I STINK, therefore I SPAM! [doctored Descartes]

[Sully]

Aced it.


I'm an expert on bushels and diphthongs.
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[ROOFCUTTER]

Thank god for math...

Pretty cool I kant evan beken 2 understand hour skools can kall it a edumacation thiefs dais

You know, I dont think it is that teachers can't teach. I think it is that no one can grade that test.

So what we get is a a or b or c or d test style that does not require education to answer properly. Just memorization of facts.
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[KillerRoofcutter]

I know a good part of that but of course i'm going into the eighth grade on september 6th
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PICKACHU GOT OWNED!

[Herostratus]

Except for the orthography portion of the test I would have easily aced it even in 8th grade. Orthography seems pretty trivial and useless 100 years later.
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[Speaker's Xeno]

hey look a butterfly... here pretty butterfly, speaker just wants to play
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[Bleeding Tomato]

I think some one hacked the 8th grade in Kansas
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[Stevo]

How many bushels are in a gallon?
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[ROOFCUTTER]

0.107420871 US bushels = 1 US gallon
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[Clay Pigeon]

The sad thing is that I learned all of that in my k-8 school, but forgot it due to lack of use of the information during high school and college. No one NEEDS to know a large portion of the answers for that test (no application for the knowledge in the working world, unless you are in a specialized field).

[DukeNukem]

[WiseOldJames{ATL}]

i can't even understand half the questions
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