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I have the opposite reaction to this exam than Pie & Hammer draw. To me, this reflects the ludicrous pile of knowledge that an undergraduate is expected to have today. When I entered university (13 years ago) I was expected to know electrochemistry, newtonian physics, and calculus. The geometry proofs in this MIT exam were 8th grade material when I was coming up, and the arithmetic was even earlier.