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ЦТ Social Studies study plan

ЦТ Social Studies · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Law and Legal Relations

  • Map the domain 8 syllabus into a one-page outline covering sources of law, legal relations, offenses, and liability

  • Define 25 core legal terms in your own words and self-quiz until you recall 20 of 25 unaided

  • Distinguish public from private law and constitutional from administrative law using three original examples each

  • Build a spaced-repetition deck of 40 law cards and review it on four separate days

Your checkpoint

A one-page law outline plus a 25-term glossary scored at 80% or higher on a closed-book recall check

Week 2

Law and Legal Relations

  • Explain the structure and functions of constitutional bodies and the separation of powers in writing

  • Classify ten short scenarios by branch of law and by type of legal liability

  • Work through 30 practice items on legal relations and correct every error with a written reason

  • Summarize the rights and duties of minors and the grounds for legal responsibility in a half-page note

Your checkpoint

A 30-item practice set completed with an error log showing a corrected explanation for each missed item

Week 3

Politics and Political Power

  • Diagram the components of political power, legitimacy, and sovereignty on a single annotated chart

  • Compare three regime types and two party systems in a written table with defining criteria

  • Trace how elections, referenda, and representation connect to citizen participation

  • Answer 25 mixed items on politics and log each miss with the concept it tested

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of regime and party types plus a 25-item quiz scored and fully corrected

Week 4

Economy and Economic Relations

  • Define 20 economic concepts including market, demand, supply, competition, and inflation from memory

  • Draw and label supply and demand curves and explain three shift factors for each

  • Differentiate the roles of state, firm, and household in the economy with concrete examples

  • Solve 15 applied items on prices, costs, and budgets and show your reasoning for each

Your checkpoint

A worked problem set of 15 economic items with visible reasoning and a labeled curve diagram

Week 5

Economy and Economic Relations & Society and Social Institutions

  • Explain the functions of money, banking, and taxation and their links to state budgets in a written summary

  • Describe four social institutions and the functions each performs for society

  • Connect economic change to shifts in family, education, and stratification with two examples per link

  • Complete 30 mixed items across economy and institutions and record your accuracy by subtopic

Your checkpoint

An accuracy report by subtopic from a 30-item mixed set, with the two weakest subtopics named

Week 6

Society and Social Institutions & Social Structure and Social Relations

  • Classify ten examples of social groups, strata, and mobility types using explicit criteria

  • Explain the causes and consequences of inequality and mobility in a structured paragraph

  • Compare social norms, sanctions, and social control with two original illustrations each

  • Review all previously missed items and re-test the weakest subtopic until you reach 80% accuracy

Your checkpoint

A re-test of your weakest subtopic scored at 80% or above, with before-and-after results recorded

Week 7

Human Being and Personality & Cognition and Activity & Spiritual Life of Society and Culture

  • Distinguish temperament, character, and abilities and describe personality formation in writing

  • Outline the stages and types of activity and the structure of cognition including sensation, perception, and thinking

  • Define culture, its forms, and the role of science, art, and education in spiritual life

  • Answer 40 rapid mixed items across these three domains and correct all misses

Your checkpoint

A 40-item rapid quiz with a corrected answer sheet and a one-paragraph summary of each domain

Week 8

Law and Legal Relations & Politics and Political Power & Economy and Economic Relations

  • Take two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score both

  • Rank all eight domains by mock accuracy and re-drill the three weakest with targeted items

  • Rehearse definitions of the 50 highest-yield terms across law, politics, and economy

  • Write a one-page exam-day strategy covering timing, question order, and guessing rules

Your checkpoint

Two scored timed mocks plus a ranked weak-domain list showing improvement from mock one to mock two

Milestones

Week 2: Closed-book law glossary recall at 80% or higher and a complete error log for all missed items

Week 4: First timed half-length mock across domains 8, 7, and 5 scored at 60% or above

Week 6: Weakest subtopic re-tested at 80% or above and all earlier error-log entries resolved

Week 8: Second full mock improves on the first by at least 10 percentage points and every domain is above 55%