CSET Single Subject Social Science Test Preparation

Unless it is absolutely necessary, take ONE subtest or at most two on any one test date. Begin with your strongest area of expertise.

Examine the CSET test guide and practice questions at http://www.cset.nesinc.com/CS_testguide_SSopener.asp. Study the subject matter requirements and print out the subtest descriptions. This is the content that needs to be mastered prior to test day.

Invaluable is the History-Social Science framework of relevant courses from which questions are drawn. See www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/allfwks.asp 4th (CA) & 7th to 12th grades.

View the History-Social Science content standards: www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp, all content you will need to master as a Social Science teacher.

Schools of CA Scope and Sequence: CA and National Standards: http://www.civiced.org/pdfs/scope2003v2.pdf

Some students have found useful:

Barron’s The Easy Way: WORLD HISTORY VOL. I. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TIMES TO A.D. 1500 ISBN 0812097653

Barron’s The Easy Way: WORLD HISTORY VOL. II A.D. 1500 TO THE PRESENT ISBN 0812097661

Barron’s The Easy Way: AMERICAN HISTORY ISBN 0764119737

Also: U.S. History for Dummies, and World History for Dummies.

New York Regents Exam material online at http://regentsprep.org has study guides, strategies, and old exams for Global History/Geography and U.S. History & Government.

Make sure to read relevant sections of the CSET Tips page as it contains invaluable strategies to help you do well on test day.

SUBTEST I WORLD HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY

For true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank questions, see Pearson World History Study Site: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_lwhss_0/

Internet Modern History Sourcebook for Ancient, Medieval, & Modern History:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Guide for Educators: World and Ancient History
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/history/histw.html

ANCIENT WORLD CULTURES
http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

WORLD HISTORY ARCHIVES (working-class non-Eurocentric)
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/

GEOGRAPHY
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/index.html

SUBTEST II U.S. HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY

US HISTORY: Terms, Chronologies, Practice quizzes, Outlines, Charts:
http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/lecturesok.html

AMERICAN HISTORY questions:
http://www.historyteacher.net/USQuizMainPage.htm

The American Pageant Practice Tests:
http://college.hmco.com/history/us/bailey/american_pageant/11e/students/ace/index.html

For true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank questions, see Pearson American History Study Site: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_longman_lahss_0/59/15268/3908609.cw/index.html

SUBTEST III CIVICS, ECONOMICS, CALIFORNIA HISTORY

CIVICS

http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=high_school

http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm

http://civnet.org

ECONOMICS

http://cob.jmu.edu/econed/High.htm

Principles of Macroeconomic$ and Microeconomic$; Money, Banking and Financial Markets; International Economics; Basic and Business Economics: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~mjperry/notes.htm

CALIFORNIA HISTORY:
http://www.californiahistory.net/

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Oh, California in Student Resource Center; outline
http://eduplace.com/ss/hmss/4/laag/99/toc99.html

California History: We Are California:
http://www.weareca.org/index.php/en

Review AP test prep guides, your college course materials, and search online for publishers of school textbooks’ materials. Current school textbooks are useful; borrow them from the Student Resource Center at UCI.

Preparation materials are available from Orange County Department of Education: http://ite.ocde.us/test_prep.htm

Review AP test preparation and your college course materials. School textbooks are useful, too. Please explore the collection in the Student Resource Center, Education 2010 and contact gse-test-prep@uci.edu if additional information is needed.