Shocker - College Students Fail

College students struggle on history test

Students don't know much about history, and colleges aren't adding enough to their civic literacy, says a report out today.

The study from the non-profit Intercollegiate Studies Institute shows that less than half of college seniors knew that Yorktown was the battle that ended the American Revolution or that NATO was formed to resist Soviet expansion. Overall, freshmen averaged 50.4% on a wide-ranging civic literacy test; seniors averaged 54.2%, both failing scores if translated to grades.

"One of the things our research demonstrates conclusively is that an increase in what we call civic knowledge almost invariably leads to a use of that knowledge in a beneficial way," says Josiah Bunting, chairman of ISI's National Civic Literacy Board. "This is useful knowledge we are talking about."

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I was going to rant about how dumb these peeps are -- but after I took the test, I decided to pipe the fuck down.

The Klown's score? See Below -- and, if I remember, in a few days I'll post which questions I got wrong -- I couldn't post them here or it would skew your test results.

I'm not very proud of it -- but the test was harder than I aniticipated.

Lastly -- I don't believe the average hop can get a 75 on that test. I'd be willing to bet $100 per person if you just dragged them in off the street -- and I'd keep on posting the bet until I was out of assets. I mean -- how do college seniors get 54% but the average on the test for Sept is 75%? Doesna make sense to the Klown.