With today being when students receive their exam results, courtesy of Old Holborn in a tweet comes this reminder of the maths exam from 1952.
Three papers on Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry - total time: 6 and a half hours!
What's that? You don't understand the questions..........
9 comments:
"Oh and no calculators allowed." - Reaches for old "British Thornton" slide rule....
I think I can still remember how to use it!
Not even that in my day and any additional paper with 'working-out' also had to be handed in!
Alright then, where was the "calculus" paper? Did nine subjects in 1949 and enjoyed every minute of it.
WfW, I'm having a lovely time going through the paper.
I thought it was hell at the time, I remember a friend and myself ceremonially burning our log books once we'd finished our GCEs.
Smashing link. Thanks.
Anonymous, Christ you older than me! Never mind about calculus paper - it took me three goes to get the basic maths paper and I still dont know how I managed it.........
wg, pleased it keeping you amused.......
Aargh! It's the stuff of nightmares!
Not sure if any of the juniors will be able to do them, they're not familiar with the units used. It's all metric these days.
So, as suggested, Mrs R - convert the measurements etc and see how they do?
I'm sure your children will do fine - they will do as you are one bright lady!
No pressure there then.......
I failed the Maths GCE at school, and had to do evening classes to scrape through in order to get my first job. I've never been any good at long division, multiplication I can usually make a reasonable stab at.
I'm surprised you weren't allowed slide rules - the thing with them was that you had to have a fair idea what the answer was to start with, or you could get it completely wrong.
In much the same way the metric system makes it easy to screw up big time, unless you have a reasonable grounding in the older systems. Just getting the decimal place out by one could have serious consequences, but mixing up feet and yards is much less likely...
"No pressure there then......."
A bit like my bicycle's front tyre!
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