Ann, I wonder if there was a limit to how many times 8th grade could be repeated. If not, I may very well have mastered it.....by the time I was 30 or so. :-) Nancy Hi folks, A cousin passed this on to me. I thought it was very thought-provoking! Ann Allen Geoghegan Could you have passed the 8th grade...in 1895? Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? (LOOK CLOSELY... THAT'S EIGHTEEN NINETY FIVE!) This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the Salina Journal. 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS -1895