this [1] is a Harvard entrance exam from 1869! We don't routinely teach Classics in high school, so it's not surprising that those sections would be beyond mos

this [1] is a Harvard entrance exam from 1869! We don't routinely teach Classics in high school, so it's not surprising that those sections would be beyond most students today. The sections on that exam dealing with Mathematics seem appropriate or possibly slightly on the easy side; I would expect an equivalent exam today to include at least a bit of calculus, but over the past 150 years there has been a shift in pedagogy towards calculus and away from geometry so it's probably just a sign of the times.