Something tells me I'd never have got into Harvard.
I managed one of the history questions, I think, and stared blankly at most of the rest. Some of them I couldn't even understand what was being asked.
graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf
What's interesting, of course, is how the view of what constitutes an education at all has changed.
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Brought back some interesting memories - algebraic long division? I assume that you can factorise and cancel?
I assume that they had log tables to hand - or how else do you find cube roots? Is their an iterative method other than trial and error?
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their = there !!! obviously failed english!
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My Greek Grammar let me down, but I excelled at the history and geography, and the comparison of Sparta and Athens was easy peasy having watched the film 300!
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I studied Latin for a year at school. At the end of the year my teacher said I spoke Latin like a native.
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Zero's Athen v Sparta one was the only one I thought I could make a reasonable stab at too. As for Latin, I can manage enough to get a paper, or an airline ticket, but after that it gets a bit hazy.
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>> I studied Latin for a year at school. At the end of the year my
>> teacher said I spoke Latin like a native.
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Blimey! Your Latin teacher must have been very old!
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>>>>I spoke Latin like a native<<<
But he did not say which country!
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>> teacher said I spoke Latin like a native.
'Native' in those days meant a person with a bone through their septum and a grass skirt, howling incomprehensibly in some primitive foreign gibberish. That was probably what he meant.
Kicking, screaming, frequently getting beaten, I had Latin drummed into me for quite a few years by a variety of glum, exasperated, resigned or furious teachers. It was the only O level I failed and the carphounds forced me to take it again. I would have refused had I known that scraping through the second time would let me in for even more of the stuff, and Anglo-Saxon too. Worst mistake I ever made, passing that. But the priests responsible for my education at A level had surprisingly persuasive ways, sometimes reminiscent of the grittier scenes in the Sopranos...
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>> I studied Latin for a year at school. At the end of the year my
>> teacher said I spoke Latin like a native.
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I don't think that was a compliment - as the language is considered to be dead by many.
Was your effort a bit lifeless?
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I too did Latin and managed to get an 'O' Level.
This always reminds me of Latin at school and makes me laugh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
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>> the language is considered to be dead by many.
Latin's a dead language,
As dead as can be.
It killed off all the Romans
And now it's killing me.
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Entrance Exam - sherlock47
