UIL Current Issues & Events
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Welcome to Seguin's UIL Current Issues & Events Webpage!
The Current Issues and Events Contest focuses on a basic knowledge of current state, national and world events/issues and consists of 40 multiple-choice questions and one essay. The essay is intended to assess the competitor's ability to synthesize and evaluate information and present it in an informed manner.
The multiple choice test and the essay will cover important domestic and international issues, events, and personalities. Topics tend to (but do not always) fall in to the following categories:
- War & Conflict
- International
- Domestic
- Economics
- Science / Technology / Environment
- Education / Awards / Honors / Media / Deaths
- Texas
Questions will be drawn from events occurring in the following date ranges:
- Invitational: Sept 1 - Jan 1
- District: Sept 1 - Feb 1
- Region: Nov 1 - March 15
- State: Dec 1 - April 15
We meet every Friday afterschool in Ms. Lavy's room. Be ready to discuss what's going on throughout the world.