Teens Answer Questions From The 1926 SAT

The dude who looked the smartest got the worst results

Honestly, if these type of questions were to be on the current SATs, everybody could be in Harvard about now.

The SAT is out of 1600 (and previously 2400). Never 2100. Great job BuzzFeed.

I wish this was the modern SAT. That was easy.

Oh the SATs... How I don’t miss them at all.

The question about the cheesy moon in actually brilliant! This was from 1926, there was no empirical evidence to prove that the moon isn't made of cheese. But since we already knew a fair amount of stuff about astronomy, we can be pretty sure it's not, therefor the answer is improbable. A lot of people could learn a thing or two from that, you can't just claim that something is a fact without evidence to back you up. Loved that question, it was clever and funny!

These are like my 4-5th grade questions.

I know this was only a few problems but they seem much easier than the modern SAT

If this was still the sat I’m going to Harvard baby

the typical price for a trail horse is around 800-1000 dollars. price can vary from 300 dollars to 40k and sometimes more than a million on a horse. mules are typically cheaper.

Umm the SAT is now measured on a 1600 scale. It was on a 2400 scale a couple years ago, but never 2100... come on BuzzFeed

The green cheese and the moon question was absurd. What what age were kids taking these SATs? Because those questions were really easy!

HOW DO YOU MISS THE SALARY ONE? YOU SUBTRACT 14 FROM 20 SO THATS HOW MUCH HE SAVES FOR A WEEK. THAN YOU DO 300 divided by 6 and you get 50. I just lost faith in humanity

It's the 1920's with $6 you can buy way more than a pack of gum.

i wondered why the SAT average was as low as 1000...now i know why.

I got a perfect 1600 score... if you combine my scores over the lat 3 SAT tests I have taken

The answer was improbable for the moon question because there was no way to know for sure what the moon was made of in 1926 seeing as the cold war hadn't even started yet. Therefore, no one has every been on the moon. If the question was on a modern day SAT, "absurd" would be the best answer.

Why does nobody explain what "SAT" stands for and what exactly it is testing?

Good job, girl! So many of these are simple reasoning and algebra.

I kinda loved that moon question. "What would you learn from this?!" Well, reasoning maybe? That's the whole point of learning what the right answer to something like that is, to be able to understand how to handle information that cannot be specifically proven. (in 1926 they hadn't gone to the moon yet, of course they knew the moon wasn't made of cheese, but since there's no empirical proof yet the statement can't be called 'false', except that we already knew a whole lot about planet formation and astrology and the statement is thus completely 'improbable') Putting these reasoning questions back into today's world wouldn't be a weird choice, considering it is now becoming more and more okay to believe something is 'probable' if there is no proof of it being false and that's not how reasoning works.