World History Bulldog
STAAR Review
2013
Review Tips
About the EOC Test:
There are 5 categories on the World History test. The chart below shows how many questions you can expect for
each category.
The EOC will also assess Social Studies Skills. You’ll need to be able to
 Interpret maps, graphs, and charts to show the relationship between geography and history.
 Explain and use primary and secondary source documents, considering the frame of reference, historical
context, and point of view.
 Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing,
contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, drawing inferences
and conclusions, and developing connections between historical events over time.
 Know and use social studies vocabulary.
How to Answer a Multiple Choice Question:
 Examine the question. Read the entire question. Study any pictures, charts, passages, or maps.
 Recall what you know about the topic. Feel free to jot notes on your test.
 Answer the question. Check all of the answer choices and eliminate any choices that are obviously wrong.
General Study Tips:
Plan ahead. You don’t want to try to cram everything in the day or the week before the exam.
rewrite your notes!
Links for Study Tools:
 The Flow of History – Visual flow charts of historical events - http://www.flowofhistory.com/units
 Student’s Friend – a concise online World History textbook - http://www.studentsfriend.com/index.html
 Glencoe World History – videos of events in World History - http://goo.gl/m8n4w
 Crash Course in World History - http://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse