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Overview of the Social Studies GED® Test
29 Overview of the Social Studies GED Test The GED Social Studies Test measures a candidate s skill in understanding and interpreting key history, geography, economics, and civics concepts and principles and applying them to visual and written academic and workplace contexts. The test consists of 50 multiple choice questions. Candidates have 70 minutes to complete the test. The GED Social Studies Test includes questions in the following areas: History: 40% ( history 25%, World History 15%) Geography: 15% Civics and Government: 25% Economics: 20% The questions are based on one of the following three types of source material: Prose (40%): narratives, high school textbooks, editorials, speeches, newspapers, news magazines, historical documents Visual Text (40%): maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, political cartoons, photographs, works of art Written and Visual Text (20%): a combination of any 2 of the above Prose-based questions constitute 40% of the test, and visual text or visual/written questions represent 60 %.
29 Overview of the Social Studies GED® Test The GED Social Studies Test measures a candidate’s skill in understanding and interpreting key history, geography, economics, and civics concepts and principles
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