Attn: American University Students

[FierceRedBelt]

Would you have* passed this exam?

Spoiler

Note: It's an entrance exam from 1922.

*poor grammar

 

[Bebop]

1. In 6th grade, yes.
2. Since when did old ass Roman emperors and Babylonia altogether even count as "modern" anywhere in the 1900s
3. I would _have_ also passed a basic English class.

 

[MacRugby08]

Those are pretty specific questions, so outside of history majors I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who could pass. I could get a few personally, but not enough to pass.

 

[Det Kimble]

Have course I would of.

 

[2O9ESE]

It would be a bad time not passing an hiv test. Honestly all I care about is passing field sobriety tests

 

[lowsingle]

pretty easily, and im not a history major

however, i also wouldnt have spent many nights on wikipedia and have left my tv on the history channel for 3 years until "hurrr american pickers, pawnstars 24 hour marathons"

 

[Simian Raticus]

If I had studied the curriculum, then I don't see why not.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

If I had studied the curriculum, then I don't see why not.

No curriculum it's an entrance exam.

 

[flaninthefacerh]

probably not.

give me an entrance exam to most subjects, and I will struggle to pass.
give me an exam to a class I'm enrolled in, I will get an A

 

[The Clinch]

With prep time, Batman can defeat anything.

 

[kuromusha]

Probably if I took the course(s) required to answer those questions. Although you can choose to take those courses nowadays, the only form of history that most american college students are required to take is American history.

 

[Magooglie]

Yes

 

[TheSauce]

my college history final was about as hard as that. i needed american history to graduate but the only available class was a 300 level. we had a list of about 40 people, places, and things and had to be prepared to write 5 short answers and 3 essays on any of them.

 

[MrBoombastic]

In high school, yeah. I was a history nerd.

Not in college though... I'm a Computer Science student.

 

[Spoken]

An iffy 7/10 right now.

No high school or basic college history course is going to teach some of that today, however. I would bet that at end of a BA that most students wouldn't pass.
lol, you gotta know about some serious european history to know anything about which territories were combining and which weren't.

 

[Zanatos333]

Yup. I haven't had a single history or even a humanities class in 4 years. I read a lot of non fiction and I enjoyed history in high school which helps. I would struggle with going in depth on every option in question 10 but I could give a simple explanation for all of them.

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

If they were permissive of short/general answers, I could pass

edit (just saw this):

answer one question from each group

now definitely

 

[Tremendous]

That's not an entrance exam.

Why would they care if you had credit in history of GB/Ireland if its an entrance exam.

 

[A13KS]

With prep time, Batman can defeat anything.

 

[Eisenkarl]

Would you of passed this?

Something tells me you wouldn't of.