MIT Entrance Exam from 1869-1870

Re:MIT Entrance Exam from 1869-1870 by BrandonM on Monday October 01, 2007 @07:08PM (#61795)

I am confident that at least 75% of students at the average US public university would score 60% or less on that test.

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Re:MIT Entrance Exam from 1869-1870 by karzeem on Monday October 01, 2007 @08:46PM (#61855)

A couple of the questions were surprisingly easy (e.g. find the area of a circle, given its radius), but you're right about most of it.

Interesting how on the English section, the questions were basically trivia. There wasn't much at all in that part testing skills, as opposed to specific knowledge.

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Re:MIT Entrance Exam from 1869-1870 by mhartl on Monday October 01, 2007 @10:14PM (#61888)

The English section, in addition to being beset by trivia, also misspelled 'Bismarck'. And what the hell does Otto von Bismarck have to do with English, anyway?

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Re:MIT Entrance Exam from 1869-1870 by michaelneale on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @02:18AM (#61964)

why with a piece of string and some sand - how else do you propose to calculate this "circle" you speak of ?

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