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  • 1954 8th Grade Civics Test - Could You Pass?

    From the page: What more proof do we need that our children are being deliberately dumbed down than this standard 1954 civics test on the U.S. Constitution on which Kenny Hignite received a 98 1/2, Excellent, indeed! I skipped a few pages just to get to the last page... No wonder... more

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  • Rated by behaving-better on Nov 11, 6:50pm

    I can't imagine memorizing all that.

  • Reviewed by JulieJuu on Nov 09, 6:40pm

    I do believe that this is mostly a test of facts. If I turned into a mad flashcard beast, I could pass in time. Though my cursive still wouldn't be better than this eighth grader's... Anyway, all I can hope is that this kid understood the material instead of just knowing all the facts. :/

  • Rated by TwoWorlds on Sep 01, 1:38pm

    If this was really a standard, non-exceptional, non-faked test given in American History classes in the 1950s...then we are all fucked. There's no way ANY single damn student could pass this. Hell, *I* could barely even pass it, and I have a BA in History and am a certified high school social studies teacher!

  • Rated by mwynn05 on Jul 30, 11:34am

    if i had an American History class this year I would do this to my students to see what they would say

  • Rated by clintyfresh on Jul 16, 9:44pm

    Holy shit. I'm going into 12th and I can't answer these.

  • Reviewed by wddykes on May 28, 6:18pm

    Memorizing a bunch of trivia and facts didnt keep people from believing segregation was okay, from engaging in cold-war hysteria, moving forward into the vietnam war, etc. Is the idea supposed to be that people in the 50s were better citizens? or the fact that one kid did really well on a hard civics test in the 50s makes us all dumbasses today? Fail.

  • Rated by russelljames on Apr 30 2009, 2:04pm

    One reviewer called this "useless knowledge". Many are claiming it's merely learning without critical thinking. To the first: wow. The Constitution is "useless"? Really? To the second: how can one critically think without knowing the facts?

  • Reviewed by ryo-ohki101902 on Apr 16 2009, 9:05pm

    The answer for the first amendment isn't entirely correct. They forgot freedom of assembly, and the teacher did not mark it wrong or make any mention of it.

  • Reviewed by jljordan2 on Mar 21 2009, 12:04pm

    Wow. I fail. All the general knowledge questions a the end were ok, but listing the entire cabinet and it's members and the supreme court justices AND all the amendments. Wow... And to respond to chapm147, In order to use information, you must KNOW it first. this was a civics test, not a "How does the government make you FEEL" test (Which is what many of them seem to be now). I'm pretty sure the students who had to memorize these at least understood what they were writing about. They aren't just 1+1=2 questions, they do require knowledge. Rote memory of the amendments is much more difficult than figuring out what they do.