“Do history exams get harder every year?”

“Do history exams get harder every year?” is a jocular one-liner. After each year, there is more history to learn! “I feel sorry for each new generation of students,since history class gets harder every year” was cited on Twitter on August 11, 2009.
 
“Do history exams get harder every year?” was cited on Sickipedia in October 2010, and the one-line saying went viral.
 
   
Twitter
Steven H. Nelson
‏@ItsJustDumb
YKW’sD?History class.Fuck it.I feel sorry for each new generation of students,since history class gets harder every year.History is history.
2:36 PM - 11 Aug 2009
 
Twitter
Neil Middleton
‏@neilmiddleton
People who say exams are easier now than in the old days are wrong.  For instance, History gets harder every year…
8:03 AM - 27 Aug 2009
 
Twitter
Paul H Visick
‏@PVask
@watsoncomedian History A Levels must get harder every year, because the events that took place happened progressively longer ago.
6:33 AM - 19 Aug 2010
 
Sickipedia
Do history exams get harder every year?
Joke added 5 years, 3 months ago by sidneytheyid in Other > One Liner - originally by Jimmy Carr
 
Twitter
TheInkedGentleman®
‏@InkedGentleman
Do history exams get harder every year?
11:40 AM - 12 Oct 2010
 
TheJournal (Ireland)
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COMMENTS
Dunners
Aug 13th 2014, 8:35 PM #  1 33
Do history exams get harder every year?
 
reddit—Shower Thoughts
History courses get harder every year as there are always new things to be added to the curriculum.
submitted January 6, 2016 by mangomangler
Students ten years from now will have a harder time studying history in highschool.