{"id":58,"date":"2016-10-14T10:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T10:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ged.org.za\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:14:42","slug":"social-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/the-ged-test\/social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Studies | GED Social Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The GED\u00ae <strong>Social Studies<\/strong> test focuses on four major content areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Civics and government (50%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">United States history (20%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Economics (15%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Geography and the world (15%)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The test assesses key reasoning skills, balancing conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency and the application of the reasoning skills to realistic situations. Each item on the Test is aligned to one social studies practice and one content topic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The practices are skills that are key to both textual and quantitative social studies reasoning. The test also measures statistics and data interpretation skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Breakdown of the Social Studies test by time and content:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Test Topics:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry__content \"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reading for Meaning in Social Studies<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Analyzing Historical Events and Arguments in Social Studies<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Using Numbers and Graphs in Social Studies<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Time (to take test):<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry__content \"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">70 minutes<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Includes 2 minutes of instructions and final review<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">No break<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"header-card__section card-body__section\">\n<div class=\"entry__content \">\n<div class=\"entry__content \">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Format:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry__content \"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No calculator allowed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Access to calculator reference sheet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Multiple choice and other question types (drag and drop, fill in the blank, select an area, and drop down)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GED\u00ae Social Studies test focuses on four major content areas: Civics and government (50%) United States history (20%) Economics (15%) Geography and the world (15%) The test assesses key reasoning skills, balancing conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency and <a href=\"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/the-ged-test\/social-studies\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ged.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}