Pupils across the country went back to school this week and Cumbria Archives celebrated by releasing samples of an exam from 1946.
The entrance exam was for Barrow Grammar School and would have been taken by prospective students.
It's entirely possible that your grandparents took this very test, but do you think you could ace it?
Would you have given up after seeing this first page or was it a walk in the park?
The grammar schools, with one for boys and one for girls, merged to form the Parkview Community College of Technology in 1979.
In 2012, this became Furness Academy, with the original buildings demolished in 2014.
Were you able to make sense of these diagrams or were you left scratching your head in bemusement?
Things are getting trickier here, unless you have a good knowledge of British currency before decimilisation.
You need a good sense of logic to make your way through these riddles.
How did you do? Did you breeze through the questions and earn your way into the Grammar School? Or is it time to head back to class?
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