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Jimi had this to say: http://jimi45.livejournal.com/62768.html?nc=8
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
From the website about the Intercollegiate Studies Institute:
"Our Fading Heritage: 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..."
I missed 6, got a little over 78 percent correct. I'm definitely not as quick as I used to be, and that is hard to accept, but I did better than I expected to.
I actually had flashes back to this stuff being drilled into me over my school years, and am surprised at how much of it stuck.
Surprisingly I got almost all of the market questions correct, tho some of it I used plain logic to figure them out and what little I know about the system. That most people cannot do even that is disturbing. That I mis-read some questions and picked the wrong answer and forgot some basic points in history is also disturbing.
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
From the website about the Intercollegiate Studies Institute:
"Our Fading Heritage: 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..."
I missed 6, got a little over 78 percent correct. I'm definitely not as quick as I used to be, and that is hard to accept, but I did better than I expected to.
I actually had flashes back to this stuff being drilled into me over my school years, and am surprised at how much of it stuck.
Surprisingly I got almost all of the market questions correct, tho some of it I used plain logic to figure them out and what little I know about the system. That most people cannot do even that is disturbing. That I mis-read some questions and picked the wrong answer and forgot some basic points in history is also disturbing.