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HiSET Social Studies: History, Civics, Economics & Geography Practice
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Series: Hiset
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ISBN13: 9798180065902
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 4 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 4 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Updated for 2027. The HiSET(R) Social Studies subtest covers a huge field - US history, world history, civics and government, economics, and geography - and most adult learners look at that list and panic. Don't. The test is *not* a recall quiz on dates and presidents. Almost every item starts with a short stimulus: a primary-source quotation, a chart, a map, a political cartoon, a graph of economic data. Your real job is to read it correctly. All-in-one HiSET books try to drill the entire history of the world into 40 pages and skip the analysis skill that actually wins points. This book is built the opposite way.
Each chapter takes one content area at a time - the founding of the United States, the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the three branches of US government, supply and demand, GDP and inflation, world geography by region - and gives you the *enough* background you need in plain English. Then it teaches you how the HiSET will use that knowledge: how to read a primary source (a quotation from a historical document), how to read a chart of economic data, how to read a political cartoon, how to interpret a map, how to identify bias in a source. Worked examples use real stimuli. Try It practice with full explanations comes right after. Then end-of-chapter practice. Common Mistake callouts call out the trap distractors. Test Tip boxes show you how to extract the right detail from a stimulus fast.
The book gives focused, working-adult coverage of the parts of US civics and history that genuinely *do* require knowledge: how the three branches of US government work, the Bill of Rights and major Constitutional amendments, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the major US wars of the twentieth century, the Civil Rights movement, and the basics of how the US economy works (markets, money, GDP, inflation, unemployment). World history and geography get the depth they need to handle the test - major civilizations, major eras, major regions - without drowning in irrelevant detail.
Two full-length 60-item practice tests under realistic 70-minute timing close the book, with answer keys that teach - correct answer, what the stimulus shows, why each wrong answer is wrong, one-line takeaway. 100% original content - zero overlap with ETS published items. Written for adult learners. HiSET(R) is a registered trademark of ETS.
The book gives focused, working-adult coverage of the parts of US civics and history that genuinely *do* require knowledge: how the three branches of US government work, the Bill of Rights and major Constitutional amendments, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the major US wars of the twentieth century, the Civil Rights movement, and the basics of how the US economy works (markets, money, GDP, inflation, unemployment). World history and geography get the depth they need to handle the test - major civilizations, major eras, major regions - without drowning in irrelevant detail.
Two full-length 60-item practice tests under realistic 70-minute timing close the book, with answer keys that teach - correct answer, what the stimulus shows, why each wrong answer is wrong, one-line takeaway. 100% original content - zero overlap with ETS published items. Written for adult learners. HiSET(R) is a registered trademark of ETS.
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