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Helen Borg

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15. 20 sec per item, folks!

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Nov 8, 2014, 02:03 PM

Nov 2014

No fooling around! Get cracking!

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Harvard students fail literacy test [View all] packman Nov 2014 OP

Here's a link to a Louisiana literacy test (circa 1964) Jim__ Nov 2014 #1

Here is the test. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #2

30 questions in 10 minutes? #30 isn't even a complete sentence. Barack_America Nov 2014 #3

You're right. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #4

5 circles in a row with a line through all of them ? scarystuffyo Nov 2014 #6

That's because the test isn't written to be passable Scootaloo Nov 2014 #26

Are the answers anywhere? treestar Nov 2014 #5

The bad grammar isn't nonsense sarisataka Nov 2014 #8

^^That Orrex Nov 2014 #12

Unfuckingbelievable malaise Nov 2014 #29

The only thing that makes sense trusty elf Nov 2014 #13

that too. A line around is illogical in itself. treestar Nov 2014 #17

I wonder how many pukes could pass that test? niyad Nov 2014 #10

25 is devious treestar Nov 2014 #18

Yes it is. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #19

Judging by all of the mistakes in this ridiculous test, trusty elf Nov 2014 #21

It took me reading your comment to see the extra the. Drunken Irishman Nov 2014 #24

I missed that one alright... awoke_in_2003 Nov 2014 #31

They should make Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Alito pass this test LeftInTX Nov 2014 #23

Most of those questions have nothing to do with literacy Warpy Nov 2014 #30

Did all the people have to take this test? White and Black? scarystuffyo Nov 2014 #7

The article says just black people treestar Nov 2014 #9

They weren't out to prove them illiterate, because many were. They were out to prove they weren't jtuck004 Nov 2014 #11

Yes though a literate person could get one wrong treestar Nov 2014 #16

Absolutely. It was just to weed out the people they wanted to deny freedom to. jtuck004 Nov 2014 #25

There was also the "grandfathering" ruse. Jim Lane Nov 2014 #32

thanks, that's interesting treestar Nov 2014 #33

I voted in Louisiana in 1960 Thirties Child Nov 2014 #14

20 sec per item, folks! Helen Borg Nov 2014 #15

This test plays on a (not so subtle) fact. rock Nov 2014 #20

So much bullshit..... trusty elf Nov 2014 #22

Draw a line around a what? Kalidurga Nov 2014 #27

Are there any records of people passing this test? surrealAmerican Nov 2014 #28