About this event
Human Growth and Development is a solo written test for the Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate divisions. It follows the lifespan: prenatal and infancy, childhood and adolescence, adulthood, and geriatrics, end of life and grief, plus the theories of development and the government, cultural and family influences that shape growth. Questions are written from Journey Across the Lifespan, DHO: Health Science and Lifespan Development. The event is one round of 50 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes, with an essay tiebreaker that is read only when scores tie.
Test day
What to expect
60 minutes, 50 questions
You have 60 minutes for 50 questions written from the event's published test plan. Official format: 50-question test, 60 minutes, plus an essay tiebreaker.
Written from the test plan
Questions follow the event's published test plan, section by section, and are written from the listed reference texts. Practice questions here are drawn in the same proportions.
How you advance
How many advance from regionals to states and on to the International Leadership Conference (ILC) depends on your association's rules. Study the official test plan: it lists each section and its share of the test.
What's on the test
Study resources
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