Students and their teachers getting ready for the New York State Grade 8 Social Studies Assessment will find two full-length social studies assessment exams in this brand new manual. One is a model exam, and the other is the New York State June 2000 Prototype. Both are followed with answers and explanations. The author also gives detailed advice on successful approaches to the exam’s several parts: the multiple-choice section, the constructed response section, and the document-based question section. He also presents a history topic outline and timeline, a general subject review, and an overview of the test.

Updated to reflect the most recent actual social studies tests, this book helps students prepare for all three parts of the New York State Grade 8 assessment exam in social studies: the multiple-choice section, the constructed response section, and the document-based question section. It also presents two full length practice tests that reflect the actual test in length, subject matter, and degree of difficulty. Practice tests come with answers and explanations for all questions. This book’s subject review material includes a history topic outline and timeline, as well as an overview of the test, with advice on how to answer its questions.

To help students review U.S. and New York State history, as taught in grades 7 and 8, and prepare for the end-of-course Intermediate Social Studies Examination.

An overview of the New York state grade 8 social studies test provides test-taking advice and tips as well as two practice exams.

Review workbook of social studies skills to prepare students for the 8th grade test on United States history.

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