http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/10/lowell-highs-entrance-exam-in-1865-difficult-questions-and-high-expectations/ Exploring New England As It Was Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/10/lowell-highs-entrance-exam-in-1865-difficult-questions-and-high-expectations/#comment-863 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:04:10 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=3026#comment-863 Me too – I was surprised by the difficulty of the questions!

]]> http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/10/lowell-highs-entrance-exam-in-1865-difficult-questions-and-high-expectations/#comment-860 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:41:00 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=3026#comment-860 I would have failed the entrance exam to high school. So much for my college education.

]]> http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/10/lowell-highs-entrance-exam-in-1865-difficult-questions-and-high-expectations/#comment-836 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:51:57 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=3026#comment-836 Alas, Abner J. Phipps, didn’t post the answers to his entrance exam in his superintendent’s report, just the questions. I think an answer key could be the subject of an entirely separate post.

]]> http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/10/lowell-highs-entrance-exam-in-1865-difficult-questions-and-high-expectations/#comment-834 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:52:04 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=3026#comment-834 I got all the math section done and realized you didn’t have the answers listed. Let me know if you have the answers some where as I’d love to do the whole thing and see how I score. I’m confident in the math but history . . . yikes!

]]> http://forgottennewengland.com/2012/06/10/lowell-highs-entrance-exam-in-1865-difficult-questions-and-high-expectations/#comment-803 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:29:08 +0000 http://forgottennewengland.com/?p=3026#comment-803 Oh wow. Not only would my students never pass this, I wouldn’t either!

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