Civic Literacy quiz

[EdwardTking]

You answered 48 out of 60 correctly — 80.00 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 75.1%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.1%

 

[Valka D'Ur]

61.67 %

I missed mostly U.S. government and economics. Some of the history ones would have been right if I'd gone with my first choice.

 

[IglooDame]

You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #10 - E. slavery and its expansion.
Question #27 - D. Man trusts his ability to know in order to reject his ability to know.
Question #54 - D. can be reversed by government spending more than it taxes.
Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.
Question #60 - B. social security.

Meh. Not bad for someone that hasn't seen a college course about any of it in a decade or so.

 

[Brighteye]

Only 40. But I have never studied economics, American history or even philosophy, so I'm not worried.
The focus on economics is impressive. Does every American school pupil learn that?

 

[Norton II]

Only if it is true, in which case... Don't get to the point of arrogance.


I prefer cocky much better.

No danger of that--I'm too aware of my shortcomings elsewhere.

Only 40. But I have never studied economics, American history or even philosophy, so I'm not worried.
The focus on economics is impressive. Does every American school pupil learn that?

No, unfortunately, which probably accounts for the relatively low scores of the 14,000 college students who originally took the test. Also, since ISI made the test, the econ questions had a distinctly pro-free market slant, which students at a lot of colleges probably wouldn't encounter, given the political leanings of most college faculty.

 

[Integral]

Only 40. But I have never studied economics, American history or even philosophy, so I'm not worried.
The focus on economics is impressive. Does every American school pupil learn that?

Unfortunately, no.

I got a 58/60 on the test. Missed the Plato question, and I messed up the monetary policy question.

This should be the final exam for a required high-school course in government & economics...

-Integral

 

[downtown]

Given that no state mandates any economics in their benchmarks for graduation, it shouldn't be a surprise that many students do poorly on the economics section.

I got a 92%. I havent taken a formal economics course yet in my life, and forgot a few things from political philosophy. Even very good students in the US, if they are not political science/philosophy/econ students, will not be taught a lot of whats on this test.

 

[GVBN]

You answered 30 out of 60 correctly — 50.00 %

 

[Irish Caesar]

Given that no state mandates any economics in their benchmarks for graduation, it shouldn't be a surprise that many students do poorly on the economics section.

Really? I could have sworn it was required in Georgia... or maybe that was government... either way, I remember something in the social science area being required to graduate high school in Georgia that wasn't required in Mass.

 

[downtown]

Really? I could have sworn it was required in Georgia... or maybe that was government... either way, I remember something in the social science area being required to graduate high school in Georgia that wasn't required in Mass.

A "civics" credit, which is typically a US Government course, is required in *I think* every state. The individual content of the course varies from district to district, let alone state to state.

I may be wrong, but I am unaware of a state that requries coursework in economics, or basic finaincal knowledge, be that in its own course, or built into the framework of the government class. I am 100% that such material is not on any standardized graduation test.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Well, a quick search on the Georgia DoEd website shows that graduation requirements have changed since I've started here, and that they only require 3 credits of social studies; it doesn't elaborate. I can't find what the old requirements are, and I'm just going from a memory of something I never had any reason to know in the first place...

So you're probably right.

I took econ in high school; it certainly wasn't required. I did not take a government course at all.

 

[LuckyAC]

88.33 %, could be worse.

 

[b etor]

Got all 60 right, which is about what I expected.

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