Draft:Social Studies (UIL test)

The University Interscholastic League's Social Studies is one of several academic contests sanctioned by the UIL. The contest began in the 2003-2004 school year, and has been conducted every year since then except for the 2019-2020 scholastic year, when the contest, among other UIL spring events, was cancelled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current state director is Andrew Bates, high school principal at Sabine Pass ISD.

Eligibility

Students in Grade 9 through Grade 12 are eligible to enter this event. All grades compete in one division.

Each school may send up to six students, although the district executive committee can limit participation to four students per school. In order for a school to participate in team competition, it must send at least three students.

Structure, Rules, and Scoring

The test is composed off four sections.

The first section contains 20 questions, each worth one point. These questions center around people, places, and events surrounding the topic for the year.
The second section contains 15 questions, each worth two points. These questions center around the topic's primary reading material for the year, generally a book.
The third section contains 10 questions, each worth three points. These questions center around the topic's secondary reading materials for the year.
The fourth section is an essay worth up to twenty points. The essay's topic is based in the theme for the year, and is required to be competed, else one may be disqualified.

The 2023-2024, the material which the second and third sections centered around was flipped at the contest director's request.

For in individual competition; the essays of the tied contestants are judged against each other to break the tie.

For team competition, the score of the fourth-place individual is used as the tiebreaker. If a team has only three members it is not eligible to participate in the tiebreaker. If the fourth-place score still results in a tie, the individual tiebreaker rules will not apply, and all remaining tied teams will advance.

For district, regional, and state meet academic championship and meet sweepstakes awards, points are awarded to the school as follows:

Individual places: 1st—15, 2nd—12, 3rd—10, 4th—8, 5th—6, and 6th—4.
Team places: 1st—10 and 2nd—5.

At the state level, though no points are awarded, the third-place team is still draped with medals and a plaque just like the second and first place teams.

List of Prior Winners

Individual

Note: for privacy reasons, only the winning school is shown.


School Year	Class 1A	Class 2A	Class 3A	Class 4A	Class 5A	Class 6A
2003-2004	Comstock	S&S Sadler	Jourdanton	Castroville Medina Valley	Plano	N/A
2004-2005	Comstock	Callisburg	Abilene Wylie	El Paso	Katy Taylor	N/A
2005-2006	Gail Borden County	Idalou	Zapata	Aledo	Katy Cinco Ranch	N/A
2006-2007	Normangee	Idalou	Zapata	Katy Seven Lakes	Victoria Memorial	N/A
2007-2008	Roby	Colorado City Colorado	Emory Rains	Katy Seven Lakes	El Paso Franklin	N/A
2008-2009	San Isidro	Paris Chisum	China Spring	Whiteshouse	Katy Taylor	N/A
2009-2010	Lindsay	S&S Sadler	Lytle	Hereford	Katy Seven Lakes	N/A
2010-2011						N/A
2011-2012						N/A
2012-2013						N/A
2013-2014						N/A
2014-2015						N/A
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023

Team

School Year	Class 1A	Class 2A	Class 3A	Class 4A	Class 5A	Class 6A
2003-2004	Comstock	S&S Sadler	Atlanta	Castroville Medina Valley	A&M Consolidated	N/A
2004-2005	TIE - Lindsay & Sabine Pass	S&S Sadler	Atlanta	Joshua	Katy Taylor	N/A
2005-2006	Comstock	S&S Sadler	Abilene Wylie	Aledo	A&M Consolidated	N/A
2006-2007	Sabine Pass	Colorado City Colorado	Wimberley	Katy Seven Lakes	Katy Taylor	N/A
2007-2008	San Isidro	Tuscola Jim Ned	Wimberley	Katy Seven Lakes	Katy Taylor	N/A
2008-2009	Anton	Paris Chisum	Abilene Wylie	Whitehouse	Katy Taylor	N/A
2009-2010	San Isidro	S&S Sadler	Van	Hereford	Katy Seven Lakes	N/A
2010-2011						N/A
2011-2012						N/A
2012-2013						N/A
2013-2014						N/A
2014-2015						N/A
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled	Event Cancelled
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023