2015-16 Competition Dates

The test order for 2015-16 is as follows:

Schedule
Social Studies open on November 16, will be due on December 18 the scores will become final on December 21.

Language Artsopen on November 16, will be due on December 18 the scores will become final on December 21. See focus period below for literature time period.

Science will open on January 4 will be due on February 5 and scores will become final on February 12.

Humanities and Fine Arts open on January 4, will be due on February 26 and scores will become final on March 4. See Focus period information below.

Mathematics open on January 4, will be due on March 11 and scores will become final on March 18.

Sweepstakes totals will post on March 18 and will become final on March 25.
The days between the due date and the become final date is your 'grace' period.  You may still take the test after that time.  If you take the test after the posted date, your results will be counted toward sweepstakes, but your score will not be counted for the awarding of placing for that particular tournament.

2015-16 Humanities and Fine Arts focus period

Impressionism & Post Impressionism

1870-1910

In Music 1815-1910

Including, but not limited to:

Art ~ Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Frederic Bazille, Henri Rousseau, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne, Paul Signac, Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard

Literature ~ This time period will include the latter part of Early Victorian Period and the Edwardian Period of English Literature, the Realistic Period in American Literature. Authors will include Thomas Hardy, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Louisia May Alcott, Joseph Conrad, Theodore Dreiser, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson& George Eliot, O. Henry, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Ivan Turgenev, Lewis Carroll, Bret Harte, Emile Zola, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, L. Frank Baum, Jack London, Upton Sinclair & Hilaire Belloc.

Music (written & performed during the focus period) ~ Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, Johann Strauss II, Richard Wagner, Modest Mussorgsky, Joseph-Maurice Ravel, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Igor Stravinsky, Antonin Dvorak, John Philip Sousa, Giacomo Puccini, Franz Lehar, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz

Dance ~ Waltz, Two-Step, One-Step, Turkey Trot, Fox Trot, Maxixe, Isadora Duncan,

Architecture ~ British Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Beaux Arts, Post-1861 Russian Revival, Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grecian, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Queen Anne Revival

Frederick Law Olmstead, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Louis Sullivan, William Pitt, William Walcot, Hector Guimard, William Morris.

Philosophy ~ Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Karl Marx, Fredrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Max Weber, Edmund Husserl, Emile Durkheim