I doubt many kids would pass that exam even at that school. Talking about grammar, hardly any of those questions are of any practical use and they would have taken many hours of teaching to get them across to the students. Hours that would be better spent on much more important work. Those days, the English Faculties were very much based on the disciplines of Latin and Ancient Greek grammar, often disfiguring and distorting the English language -which has many other roots- so suit those grammatical cannons. It was torture for the kids and an anathema to the logical evolution of the English language. I'm glad we no longer waste time on questions such as 1, 4 5 and our aims on essays is more to show that the student has ideas and can express them reasonably then a circus performance of his/her knowledge of technical trivia. I would pass it only because I've gone through the rigours of Greek, Latin and French grammar.
