The math seems fairly straightforward and maybe even easier than now, but I think many of the English problems were with cultural context and that’s why we don’t understand them now.
@@nefrit6584 Even though it's tempting and often justified to attribute much of what's shown here to the American schooling system being as lackluster as it tends to be, people also have to be held accountable for their own lack of initiative when it comes to their education. At the risk of sounding conceited by using myself as an example, my formal education technically stopped at 9th grade here in the US but I still continued to educate myself via the internet, library, etc. on an ongoing basis and still do so to this day. Laziness and just plain not caring is usually far worse a culprit than poor schooling is in my experience, as people very often DO have the means to educate themselves.
@@MrMctastics wasn't Adultery illegal, heck I believe in every state in the US (I think the US is still the only if not the main country where the SAT is used) you can only be married to one person at a time
@@route2070 I think you're confusing adultery for bigamy. Bigamy is the crime of endeavoring to marry another person when you're already legally married to someone else. But as far as the legality of adultery goes (cheating on your spouse), don't quote me on this but I believe it's technically still illegal in some states but it just isn't enforced anymore like it probably was back in the 1920's. I'll have to look into it further, but with the mores being what they were back at the time this test was created it's no wonder it's considered a crime along with murder and larceny.
I think there's about 400,000 words in the English language (and that probably doesn't even count specialist words, like what you find in medical dictionaries). I doubt anyone knows all of them.
These words were common knowledge clearly common knowledge back then to anyone attending school. Nobody uses they words anymore lol so I don't blame them.
That was pretty easy compared to the modern SAT. Those math problems were just addition and multiplication. Now it include geometry and algebra with formulas and such. I knew all the vocabulary words and they seemed easier than the words they use today.
I wasn't allowed to use a calculator when I took the SAT, and it still had algebra and geometry on it. We were allowed a piece of scrap paper to do calculations on. That was back in the days when you got a lower score for incorrect answers, so you were supposed to leave questions blank if you were unsure of the answer. I had one question on the vocabulary I could not figure out, and it drove me mad. It was one of those "this is to that as such and such is to _____, and I didn't know what 'advent' meant. I will never forget how frustrating that was. I wanted to guess, tried to think of related words like adventure, Advent (preparing for Christmas)...couldn't figure it out. Ugh. I did NOT want to leave that question blank, but I did.
Do we know what ages took this test? Has it changed over time? In England, my sister took it in year 9 but that had been abolished well before I got there so I only did the year 6 one
Take the test & time yourself. How smart would you have actually been in the 1920s? apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/local/scholastic-aptitude-test-from-1926/940/
Jason N oof if it's the same as modern SAT it seems kidney easy? I got 8/10 and I'm not even at SAT age yet. but I'm not American either so it doesn't matter
@@astersaur the SAT's questions are individually not too difficult but they're designed to make you slip up and do small mistakes which add up. Furthermore they are extremely time limited and so you don't have a lot of time to analyze each question. The math ones can get more complicated and the readings longer. These would be considered the easier questions but that doesn't mean they're the whole test. Same thing applies for act.
Do you guys not know that the T in SAT stands for Test? The title, "Would you pass a 1920's SAT test?", is therefore incorrect. Scholastic Aptitude Test Test? You both get a failing grade.
lhl2500 You know who your remind me of? That guy from the doctor who episode with the sontarans. The Sontaran invasion I believe it was. I'm talking about the guy who made ATMOS, and would get very annoyed when somebody called it. 'The atmos system' because the s stood for system. "The s already stands for system! You're essentially saying the System system"
I had so much fun playing along with you guys. I am happy to say I got them all right. It looks like I would be a good tutor of the 1920s SAT. I am a 2018 SAT tutor on the side (because of course teachers need side jobs), so I guess that tracks.
What I like about the current SAT is that it still has difficult vocabulary but it gives you context in a passage or within the question, so you’re not answering blindly. If you don’t know the word, you’re not instantly screwed. I like that now they value the skill of reading between the lines rather than simply knowing words
I'm not american, so I can't really compare it to current SAT tests, but what I can see is that it seems to be based on testing your understanding of things, as opposed to nowadays (at least, in the UK education system), where we we're just tested on an ability to memorise facts
Yeah, American standardized tests are decidedly more about logic and application than memorization. The specific information is far less important than showing you've learned how to learn and problem solve.
Really? I'm English and I wouldn't say they were too dissimilar, though it has been a while. These two once explained that tests will have a question at the end that seemingly covers what has already been covered in the test but phrased in a different way to test that very thing: whether you are applying a learnt ability or a memorised process, at the same time testing your logic in working this out and choosing to apply the appropriate method. This seems to be what you are summarising in their approach, but it definitely rings true of ours too
Before all of you guys comment about them being stupid, y’all need to realize that they havent taken a standardized test for AGES. Besides, failing to do certain questions does NOT negate them being stupid - i mean look at all the research they have done to make this channel a success!! Props to you guys asapscience
It is and there math is really bad like seriously there guessing basic math like cmon $20 per week spend 14 a week how long for 300 6 divided by 300 its basic math
As a Catholic school kid, I have heard ecclesiastical too often. For example, determine the difference between the ecclesiastical and classical pronunciations of Latin.
Slim shady i thought it was C lol, because larceny doesn’t really correlate with murder unless by coincidence. But larceny will match with delinquency and prison for sure
The key with all the "closely related" questions is to know what they meant. They were talking about part of speech not definition. The correct answer for the sins one, all the words were verbs.
the 2 versions of test takers(at least the one who just bail out and do the test the next week) Mitch the prepared but still nervous and Greg the one that complains personally i relate to Greg
I just bought your book yesterday and I read it in three hours! I couldn't put the book down! It was very fun to read and I even memorized what the scientific name is for a brain fart!😂
I am 11 and i got all the answers to the questions instantly and got them all right , I am kind of confused why 2 grown men struggled on the questions.
EEK! 9/10! I switched the one with indolence because I thought they were describing a human quality, and humans can't be "failure," so I chose "dullness" (sigh) forgot this was the old format of the sat oh my goodness so thank god for the switch
D aren't opposites, but they're more opposites than the rest. Ecclesiastical means belonging to the church and tepid is lukewarm. If I were writing the test, I would have replaced ecclesiastical and lukewarm with made-up words, so that logically it has to be the equivalent of "ecclesiastical-tepid". For example: A) Black, Chairagonal B) Chairagonal, Quollen C) Quollen, Wooden D) Black, Wooden most logical answer (or safest answer) is B
The math part took me like 10 seconds a question though. The math ones are structures like harder problems today causing anxiety but it’s more about knowing what it’s asking and doing a simple operation.
Hey look! Their math questions were actual situations that make sense and actually might be useful in the real world. We have literally deevolved in terms of math education in the span of a 100 years
on the first question ---- answer A is 3 different diseases. they can all be put in the same descriptive category alcohol causes drunkenness and indolence (being lazy) causes failure
Through a program by the name of Duke Tip, I was given the opportunity to take the SAT or the ACT as a 7th grader to see my true skills. I decided to take the ACT. I received a score of an 18, which is fairly good for a 7th grader
Okay so I've always been VERY bad at maths, and the 5th question with the mules and horses, i remember we did algebra on these problems with very difficult operations and i never understood how to do it. but i just processed this and totally got the answer without algebra !! Like, they said some muleS and horseS, so AT LEASt 2 horses were sold. he made a profit of 220$, so minus the prices of the 2 horses sold, it would mean he made 140$ selling the mules. But mules sells for 50$ each so the total price of sold mules can't never equal 140, it would need to be 150. Since 40 is the price of a horse... Well he sold 3 horses... and two mules for 50$ each which makes 100$. It has to be at least two mules since mule is plurial in the question OwO
