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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

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319 points rcarmo | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | source
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terminalbraid ◴[21 Oct 24 23:33 UTC] No.41909658[source]▶
In a similar vein, linked are math questions Russian universities would give to Jewish students to filter them out in entrance exams.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

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1. neongreen ◴[22 Oct 24 16:50 UTC] No.41916175[source]▶
Btw — how hard are these problems nowadays? Back then, 8 top Soviet students solved only half of them in a month — has anyone tried giving them to students now?
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2. cooljoseph ◴[23 Oct 24 01:05 UTC] No.41920523[source]▶
They seem a lot easier than USAMO problems, or even Putnam problems. I suspect that top students nowadays could easily solve them all in a day.