13-year-olds subjected to grueling questions for Eton scholarship

If you want your kid to get an Eton scholarship, all he needs to do is answer four (not so simple) questions.

Children taking one of Eton's entrance examinations were asked to imagine they were the Prime Minister.

Eton has a track record of producing 19 of them, including the present incumbent David Cameron.

The next part of the question was a touch more difficult, though.

They had to write a script for a TV broadcast in which they defended the killing of 25 protesters by the Army after sending in the troops to quell protests, the Independent reported.

They had to say why the decision was both "necessary" and "moral" in the wake of the protesters killing police officers as they ransacked public buildings after an oil crisis in the Middle East led to the UK running out of petrol.

The question was one of four in a 2011 general paper sat by 13-year-olds seeking one of the 14 places a year set aside for King's Scholarships - where at least 10 percent of the fees is subsidized.