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mit entrance exam, 1869-1870
-- olga, September 27, 2007
the mit libraries has a nice page up of an old entrance exam as required for freshman to enter the institute. subjects include english, geometry, algebra, and arithmetic.
the exam is below. it seems hard to imagine that students nowadays would be able to describe the course of the danube or name work by whittier.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
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September 27th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
In fairness, Whittier was alive at the time. And most students would be far more capable of describing the course of the Nile nowadays than in 1869.
September 27th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
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September 27th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
this test is surprisingly easy relative to what today’s college freshman are expected to be know.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:54 am
“What is the Declaration of Independence? What is the U.S. Constitution?” Did they get rid of those questions? If so, I wonder when!
September 28th, 2007 at 1:32 am
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September 28th, 2007 at 2:48 am
How many days are in August @_@
September 28th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Wow, interesting.
I feel like any modern era freshman bothering to apply to MIT would _kill_ the math section. That’s average high school freshman/sophomore stuff there.
As for geography/history stuff, students back then didn’t spent a single minute worrying about anything outside of western Europe or North America, so I’d hope they had a little more depth of understanding of European culture.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:36 am
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September 28th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Honestly, these all seem relatively easy for an entrance exam to our nation’s best Engineering school. Maybe MIT wasn’t considered to be that good back then?
September 28th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Here’s a list of online university lecture videos:
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/lectures.html
September 28th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Whittier was active at the time of that exam.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
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September 28th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
No calculator, this would suck.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
This is a piece of cake compared to UNH in 1899. I have a set of books called the “New Hampshire Annual Reports 1899-1900″ (3 volumes) that contains this exam.
University of New Hampshire, 1899
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PAPERS
http://www.mherlihy.org/1899UNHEntranceExam.htm
September 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Well if that was the exam I would have actually gotten into MIT!
September 28th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
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October 9th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Is that real? I doubt… The production of first typewriter was started in 1873. How could those exam papers be printed at that time?
October 19th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Could be real, Gutenberg invented the printing press a few centuries before.