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词条 Current Issues and Events (UIL)
释义

  1. Eligibility

  2. Rules and Scoring

  3. Determining the Winner

  4. List of prior winners

      Individual    Team  

  5. References

  6. External links

Current Issues and Events (commonly known as Current Events) is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League. The contest began in the 1990-91 scholastic year.

Current Events is designed to test students' knowledge and understanding of significant events which have taken place during the current school year.

Eligibility

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

The test covers current events which have taken place during the school year. For testing purposes, the following test ranges are implemented (2009 school year). [1]

District: Sept 1, 2008 – Feb 1, 2009

Region: Nov 1, 2008 – March 1, 2009

State: Dec 1, 2008 – April 1, 2009

Each school may send up to four students; however, in districts with more than eight schools the district executive committee can limit participation to three students per school. In order for a school to participate in team competition, the school must send at least three students.

Rules and Scoring

The test consists of two parts, a multiple choice section and an essay section.

The multiple choice section consists of 40 questions. The questions may be answered in any order; there is no penalty for skipping questions.

The essay section follows, which may include a quote or two and a prompt. The contestant must write an informative essay explaining the issue, while answering any questions in the prompt.

Both sections must be completed in one hour; students who do not attempt the essay section are immediately disqualified. No time warning is given during the test; at the end of 60 minutes contestants must cease writing.

The multiple choice section is scored first. Contestants are given one point for each question answered correctly, with no points being deducted for incorrect answers.

After the multiple choice section is scored, the top eight students will have their essays scored. The essays are judged based on a holistic grading criteria of ten points. The rubric can be found here [https://web.archive.org/web/20080720182118/http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/current_events/CIE_rubric.pdf]

The multiple choice section and the essay section make up the student's individual points. For the team competition, the top three individual multiple choice scores from a school are added together.

Determining the Winner

The top three individuals and the top team (determined based on the scores of the top three individuals) will advance to the next round. In addition, within each region, the highest-scoring second place team from all district competitions advances as the "wild card" to regional competition (provided the team has four members), and within the state, the highest-scoring second place team from all regional competitions advances as the wild card to the state competition. Members of advancing teams who did not place individually remain eligible to compete for individual awards at higher levels.

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. At the state level ties for first place are not broken.

For district meet academic championship and district 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.
  • The maximum number of points a school can earn in Current Issues and Events is 47.

List of prior winners

Individual

NOTE: For privacy reasons, only the winning school is shown. [2]

School Year Class A Class AA Class AAA Class AAAA Class AAAAA Class AAAAAA
(2015-present)
1990-91 Menard Coleman Rice Consolidated Kerrville Tivy Brownsville Pace N/A
1991-92 San Isidro Dublin Crane Jacksonville Brownsville Pace N/A
1992-93 Menard McGregor Texarkana Pleasant Grove Longview Pine Tree Grand Prairie N/A
1993-94 Meadow S&S Consolidated Gladewater Sabine Beeville Jones Grand Prairie N/A
1994-95 Byers S&S Consolidated Rusk Friendswood Fort Worth Dunbar N/A
1995-96 Yantis S&S Consolidated Teague Friendswood Round Rock N/A
1996-97 Utopia S&S Consolidated Teague Friendswood Austin Johnson N/A
1997-98 Chillicothe Valley View Teague Austin Johnson Katy Taylor N/A
1998-99 Chillicothe Jourdanton Atlanta Fort Worth Dunbar Round Rock N/A
1999-2000 Crosbyton S&S Consolidated Vernon Corpus Christi Flour Bluff Katy Taylor N/A
2000-01 Lindsay Celina Cotulla Sulphur Springs College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2001-02 Lindsay Stamford Atlanta Southlake Carroll Pflugerville N/A
2002-03 San Isidro S&S Consolidated Forney Corpus Christi Flour Bluff College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2003-04 Martin's Mill Schulenburg Jourdanton Medina Valley Corpus Christi Ray N/A
2004-05 Apple Springs Callisburg Abilene Wylie El Paso Corpus Christi Ray N/A
2005-06 Hedley S&S Consolidated Mont Belvieu Barbers Hill El Paso College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2006-07 Martin's Mill Tuscola Jim Ned Wimberley Stephenville Round Rock N/A
2007-08 Muenster S&S Consolidated Wimberley Pflugerville Hendrickson Clear Lake N/A
2008-09 Latexo Tuscola Jim Ned Hidalgo Houston Kerr Katy Taylor N/A
2009-10 Apple Springs Holliday Hidalgo San Antonio Alamo Heights Sugar Land Dulles N/A
2010-11 Latexo Vanderbilt Industrial Wimberley San Antonio Alamo Heights Katy Seven Lakes N/A
2011-12 Sabine Pass Tolar Van Ennis Plano N/A
2012-13 Jayton S&S Consolidated La Grange Ennis Grapevine N/A
2013-14 Latexo Holliday Hudson The Colony Grapevine N/A
2014-15 Hartley Sabine Pass S&S Consolidated Wimberley Hereford Taylor
2015-16 Gholson Sabine Pass Anahuac Salado Lake Ridge Allen

Team

[2]
School Year Class A Class AA Class AAA Class AAAA Class AAAAA Class AAAAAA
(2015-present)
1990-91 Menard Coleman La Grange Burkburnett Round Rock N/A
1991-92 Lindsay Woodsboro Dalhart Highland Park Brownsville Pace N/A
1992-93 Menard Wimberley Elgin Jacksonville Round Rock N/A
1993-94 Lindsay S&S Consolidated White Oak McKinney Bryan N/A
1994-95 (tie) Apple Springs/Lindsay S&S Consolidated (tie) Wimberley/La Grange Friendswood Fort Worth Dunbar N/A
1995-96 Lindsay S&S Consolidated Teague Friendswood Laredo Alexander N/A
1996-97 (tie) Apple Springs/Texline S&S Consolidated Teague Friendswood Edinburg North N/A
1997-98 Rotan S&S Consolidated Teague Friendswood Sugar Land Elkins N/A
1998-99 Menard S&S Consolidated Atlanta Fort Worth Dunbar Round Rock N/A
1999-2000 Crosbyton S&S Consolidated Teague Corpus Christi Flour Bluff College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2000-01 Lindsay S&S Consolidated Abilene Wylie Corpus Christi Flour Bluff Edinburg Economedes N/A
2001-02 Lindsay S&S Consolidated Atlanta Sulphur Springs College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2002-03 Lindsay S&S Consolidated Jourdanton Corpus Christi Flour Bluff College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2003-04 Martin's Mill S&S Consolidated Jourdanton Medina Valley Austin Westlake N/A
2004-05 Apple Springs S&S Consolidated Abilene Wylie Medina Valley College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2005-06 Apple Springs S&S Consolidated Abilene Wylie Stephenville Round Rock N/A
2006-07 Martin's Mill S&S Consolidated Abilene Wylie Mont Belvieu Barbers Hill Round Rock N/A
2007-08 Apple Springs S&S Consolidated Abilene Wylie Pflugerville Hendrickson Clear Lake N/A
2008-09 Apple Springs Tuscola Jim Ned Hidalgo Aledo Katy Taylor N/A
2009-10 Latexo S&S Consolidated Hidalgo Aledo Katy Seven Lakes N/A
2010-11 Latexo Tuscola Jim Ned Van San Antonio Alamo Heights Katy Seven Lakes N/A
2011-12 Sabine Pass Holliday Van Aledo Katy Seven Lakes N/A
2012-13 Sabine Pass S&S Consolidated La Grange Vandegrift College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2013-14 Latexo S&S Consolidated Orangefield Friendswood College Station A&M Consolidated N/A
2014-15 Comstock Sabine Pass Harmony School of Innovation Wimberley College Station A&M Consolidated MacArthur
2015-16
2016-17 Tioga Mason Goliad Little Cypress-Mauriceville College Station A&M Consolidated MacArthur
2017-18 Borden Sabine Pass Holliday Burnet Champion Johnson

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/current_events/index.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-04-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321022806/http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/current_events/index.html |archivedate=2007-03-21 |df= }}
2. ^1 UIL: Academics - Archives {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705105558/http://uil100.org/archives/academics.php |date=July 5, 2011 }}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070321022806/http://www.uil.utexas.edu/academics/current_events/index.html UIL Current Issues & Events Information Page]
  • Official UIL Rules for Current Issues and Events

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