Another thread made me remember this and I’m wondering if this test is a graduation requirement anymore, or if it ever was for you.
I remember we had a specific class we were required to take, it was freshman year I think, and were given what was referred to as the “citizenship test” at the end of the semester. You had to pass it to graduate.
Did you have to do this?
Sorta. We had a small battery of basic civic skills tests we had to pass like how to write a simple cover letter to a prospective employer and that sort of thing ( I really forget what “that sort of thing” included, that one just sticks in my head for some reasons ).
ETA: No specific class, though. As I recall it was administered in English class.
We had to take a citizenship test in 8th grade, and our teacher had everyone “bind” their citizenship class folders with duct tape so we could keep the folders and study materials for high school.
I remember using the folder again in high school too.
Yes. We were tested on our knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, government, and federal voting laws as well as on our state constitution and voting laws thereof.
I had tests on those subjects, but they were no different than tests in any other required subject, like English or math.
Government and Economics, each a semester long, are both required to graduate in Texas. I believe they replaced an older requirement for a “civics” class, that was sorta the same thing. They are full on classes, though, not a discreet test.
We had a one-semester government class that was required to graduate, but there was no specific test that had to be passed.
We had a civics/government type class that we were, might still be, required to pass in the state of Maryland. We also had a math and English test as well.
We did, obviously (since it was my post that inspired the question, I believe) but now that I think more about it, I can’t recall if it was in Eighth grade or High School…
As I mentioned in the other thread, our schools called History “Social Studies” all the way through most of the High School classes, although I do now recall that I took AP History in High School. It satisfied one of the Social Studies requirements.
ETA: Illinois, gradated in 1992
In Texas, we regularly had courses of Texas history to pass, in quite a few grades. I believe it started in third grade or so. My family moved to Missouri the summer before I entered high school, and we had a class called Citizenship or something like that. This focused on US government as a whole, and lasted two semesters, and it was a graduation requirement. When I moved back to Texas, I had to take another year of Texas history.
Ah, I misunderstood the question. I thought you meant basic skills for citizens, not knowledge of civics.
We did have a government class, which I took as a senior, but I don’t recall if it was mandatory. Might have been. It was sort of the terminal senior-level social studies class. It was pretty rinky-dink, actually ( down to the teacher as much as anything else ). This was mid-1980’s in CA, so I’m sure whether it was a full-fledged requirement or not can be found somewhere.
We had that test. I irritated everyone by being the only one in the class to score perfectly.
I am not even American, heh 
I answered “no,” because we had our civics test in 8th grade.
I remember we had to take tests on the federal and state (IL) constitutions before high school. I think it was in junior high (7th or 8th grade), but I cannot remember the specifics.
In my day/school you needed Grade 10 history to graduate. Half of Grade 10 history was civics, and we were tested on it, had a paper and a few other things to get our grades. We discussed government, parliament, the political spectrum, discussed what issues and beliefs put you where on the spectrum (I remember a lot of my fellow students being surprised that Hitler wasn’t a communist. We had a whole discussion about how extreme right/fascism can also be as controlling as extreme left/communism.
What was interesting was how the discussion of political spectrum, politics lead into government, parliamentary democracy and then lead into how Confederation happened, and the BNA act, written v unwritten constitutions etc.
Then we actually studied Confederation and how Canada developed as a nation after the BNA act, etc, and we finished the year (fast forwarding from the great depression) to the Constitution passing and so forth in the 1980s) I had an excellent history teacher, a curmudgeon to whom I owe much of my academic success.
We didn’t even have a civics class. Our history classes covered the US Constitution but not in any detail.
No specific test, but it was covered in history. And it was in junior school, not senior school.
No. I did take AP US Government, and I think some sort of civics/government class was required (although it was only one semester), but no test. (I mean, no test to graduate - of course we took the AP test.)
I said “no”, but then my educational experience was unusual:
From 5th grade through 9th grade I lived in Canada. Montreal, specifically. So if any civics test would have been required in any U.S. school I obviously didn’t take it.
From 10th grade through high school graduation I lived in the US. Los Angeles, specifically. I fulfilled all the requirements for graduation in California. I never heard of a civics test requirement.
You took one in middle school and one in high school - both are state requirements.
Illinois, graduated HS in 1986