{"id":23536,"date":"2022-11-04T23:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/prep\/?p=23536"},"modified":"2022-11-17T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:28:50","slug":"whats-on-the-tasc-social-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/tasc\/whats-on-the-tasc-social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"What's on the TASC: Social Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TASC Social Studies Test evaluates your ability to understand, interpret, and apply information. You will have 75 minutes to answer 47 items. Most items on the TASC Social Studies Test will be multiple-choice, though you may also see multiple-answer, drag-and-drop, and constructed-response items.<\/p>\n

Content Areas of the TASC Social Studies Test<\/h3>
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\nCivics and Government<\/strong> (25%) topics include modern and historic governments, constitutional government, levels and branches of the U.S. government, the electoral system, and the role of the citizen.
\nU.S. History<\/strong> (25%) topics stretch from colonialism and the American Revolution through the Civil War and Reconstruction into the modern era of industrialization, immigration, two world wars, the Great Depression and New Deal era, the Cold War, and the movements for equal rights.
\nEconomics<\/strong> (20%) topics include economics concepts and systems, the government and the economy, and labor and consumer economics issues.
\nGeography<\/strong> (15%) topics cover the relationship among resources, the environment, and societies.
\nWorld History<\/strong> (15%) topics include the beginnings and development of human societies as well as political and economic revolutions and the causes and consequences of wars in the modern era.
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Social Studies Skills<\/h3>
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\nIn addition to testing your understanding of social studies passages, illustrations, graphs, and charts, questions on the TASC Social Studies Exam are based on your understanding of major skills. After you study these skills, you will reinforce them as you work through the unit. They include:<\/p>\n
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  • Determining central ideas and making inferences<\/li>\n
  • Analyzing words, events, and ideas in social studies contexts<\/li>\n
  • Analyzing authors\u2019 purposes and points of view<\/li>\n
  • Evaluate authors\u2019 reasoning and evidence<\/li>\n
  • Analyze relationships within and between social studies materials<\/li>\n
  • Interpret data and statistics in graphs and charts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Note that while you will be expected to interpret data, you will not have to perform extensive calculations during the TASC Social Studies Test. You will not have access to a calculator during the TASC Social Studies Test.
    \nOnce you’re familiar with the structure of the TASC Social Studies Test, try out a few practice questions!<\/p>\n

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