The bureaucratic imperial examinations as a concept has its origins in the year 605 during the short lived Sui dynasty. Its successor, the Tang dynasty, implemented imperial examinations on a relatively small scale until the examination system was extensively expanded during the reign of Wu Zetian.

In the late 19th century, schools in England approached the Cambridge and Oxford universities, and requested them for a standardized test that male pupils could take locally across England. This was in 1858, and back then, exams were open only to boys.

Grade 5 • India According to historical sources, then exams were invented by an American businessman and philanthropist known as Henry Fischel somewhere in the late 19th century. However, some sources attribute the invention of standardized assessments to another man by the same name, i.e. Henry Fischel.

Henry Fischel

Albert Sherman Osborn is considered the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America.

Brahmagupta

11 Greatest Mathematicians of All Time

1. Carl Friedrich Gauss. Born: April 30, 1777, Braunschweig, Germany.
2. Leonhard Euler. Born: April 15, 1707, Basel, Switzerland.
3. Isaac Newton.
4. Euclid.
5. Srinivasa Ramanujan.
6. Pierre de Fermat.
7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
8. Albert Einstein.

Aryabhata I

Carl Friedrich Gauss one of the greatest mathematicians, is said to have claimed: “Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.” The properties of primes play a crucial part in number theory.

Leonhard Euler