Are educational standards falling?

[calmllama]

This is a test given to 14-year old boys and girls who wanted to work at Cleator Moor Co-op in the 1930s - either as errand boys or shop assistants.  To make the test easier for you, the figures have been converted from pounds, shillings and pence into decimal.  No calculators, spell checks, computers etc to be used.  And no cheating!

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Comments

[glipe]

With a pen and paper, they're all pretty easy....

Except for the last one, which breaches the laws of physics! Shouldn't that be an average speed, rather than a constant?

[fluffmitten]

Haha, good point well made! There's a train I'd like to be on...

(I couldn't do number 6 because I don't know the imperial measure multipliers and there's no way of calculating if you just don't know.)

[calmllama]

My God your maths must be good! I never got the hang of long division myself....

[calmllama]

The train is rather impressive isn't it!