Brown loses Sun newspaper backing

[The Lone Gunman]

It's still not a fair test. Things they used to teach are no longer on the syllabus. Things on the syllabus now didn't used to be. You'd have to select questions that modern kids are taught how to do, build an exam and then see how the scores come out... I guess you could find historical data how well any past question was answered.

The natural trend in education is upwards. It is normal for the next generation to know stuff that is new now. Concepts that were hard to grasp or little understood become common place. My fathers generation would never have understood "relativity" but I would expect most of us could have a stab at explaining the basics and some will fully understand it.
I would therefore expect modern students to be studying things that are well beyond what I studied.
With Maths and other sciences I would expect much higher capabilities as modern tech allows quicker calculation.