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Damn, I need to go back to school
« on: November 23, 2008, 04:04:08 PM »
Here's a pretty decent time waster on civics. 33 question exam - I scored 25/33. Hit a rut with the Supreme Court shit. Nailed economics - thank you University of Maryland!

From the American Civil Literacy website:

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Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions is the third major study conducted by ISI on the kind of knowledge required for informed citizenship. In 2006 and 2007, ISI published the first ever scientific surveys of civic learning among college students. Each year, approximately 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools nationwide were given a 60-question, multiple-choice exam on basic knowledge of America’s heritage. Both years, the students failed. The average freshman scored 51.7% the first year and 51.4% the next. The average senior scored 53.2%, then 54.2%. After all the time, effort, and money spent on college, students emerge no better off in understanding the fundamental features of American self-government.

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
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Re: Damn, I need to go back to school
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2008, 05:20:23 PM »
27/33.  Would have been better, but I misread two stupid questions. 
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Re: Damn, I need to go back to school
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2008, 10:26:49 PM »
26    ...Not bad...
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Re: Damn, I need to go back to school
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2008, 10:14:21 AM »
I also got 27 - and also missed two that I should have known.
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Re: Damn, I need to go back to school
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2008, 10:38:09 AM »
missed #7, #13, #15, #31
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Re: Damn, I need to go back to school
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2008, 10:59:38 AM »
Stupid ass 8, 14, 19, and ESPECIALLY 29.

Screw the levees.  Move to a hill.
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Re: Damn, I need to go back to school
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2008, 03:26:46 PM »
31 out of 33.


In reading the analysis of the elected officials' scores versus citizens I was not surprised that citizens did much better in almost all areas.  Really exposes how ignorant our politicians are in civics.

Puritans suck.

My ancestors were thriving on farms and settlements in the South 20 years before "The Pilgrims" arrived in New England.

And FDR sucks...fucking socialist!
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