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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Eighth grade test #62477 03/27/02 11:12 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia P paulb OP addict OP paulb addict P Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from today's Melbourne Age: http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.willis/eighthgrade.html Test yourselves in Orthography and Grammar particularly. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62478 03/27/02 11:38 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York taking the liberty to make this clickable: http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.willis/eighthgrade.html thanks, paulb! I was looking for that a while back. I think what's happening here is we (and especially schoolkids today) have so much more information to deal with than kids did a hundred years ago. Plus, many of the "givens" have changed. But I, as an old liberal arts type, lament the shift from "genteel" knowledge to tech knowledge. Would you like fries with that? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62479 03/27/02 11:53 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Sorry to disappoint you guys, but this one's a fake. It's been in the Telegram here, too. It's a pity that the people who edit the newspapers don't bother to check their sources! http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62480 03/27/02 12:08 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Yikes!© Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62481 03/27/02 07:59 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA W wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Whew! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62482 03/28/02 10:04 AM Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York R Rubrick addict Rubrick addict R Joined: May 2000 Posts: 679 Somewhere outside New York Sorry to disappoint you guys, but this one's a fake. I was thinking that when I did the test and then I saw your post (I tend to read the Daily Archives before visiting the board so I don't get everything in order). A few of the questions are unanswerable and require a lot more information otherwise they become open to interpretation. That question about calculating the interest. Compound? Simple? Weekly? Daily? Monthly? APR? It diesn't specify and they all yield different answers. It was fun to read, though. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62483 03/28/02 11:08 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia P paulb OP addict OP paulb addict P Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 460 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Thanks for that link, Bean. An email has been despatched to the Education editor of The Age. Sorry folks -- guess we shouldn't always believe everything we read! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Eighth grade test #62484 03/29/02 08:55 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky guess we shouldn't always believe everything we read! Here's something else for you not to believe, my dear paulb: I don't love you! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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