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The New York Department of Education created the Social Studies tests in accordance with the standards they deemed
appropriate for students at the high school level. Educators normally teach students to attain levels of accomplishment as prescribed
by state and national standards. This test was created by the New York Department of Education to determine, in part, how well
students have learned the material taught them as specified by these state standards.
The Social Studies test was formulated in accordance with the following five (5) standards:
| Standard 1: | History of the United States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of
ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States
and New York.
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| Standard 2: | World History
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of
major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine
the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
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| Standard 3: | Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the
geography of the interdependent world in which we live-local, national, and global-
including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.
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| Standard 4: | Economics
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how
the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated
institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the
United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity
problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
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| Standard 5: | Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the
necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the united states and
other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American
constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship,
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