Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 832 original practice questions covering the full scope of a social problems course, organized chapter by chapter — and it opens soon. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s Social Problems program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a social problems course. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The bank holds 832 original questions across 10 chapters plus three Social Problems in Depth sets spanning the course’s problem areas, plus an applied analysis set and a synthesis and integration set, covering perspectives and claims-making, poverty, wealth, and economic inequality, race, ethnicity, and immigration, gender, sexuality, and inequality, crime, violence, and criminal justice, alcohol, drugs, and addiction, health, illness, and health care, families, aging, and intimate relationships, education, and work, cities, environment, and war. There is no licensing exam at the end of a social problems course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
PassProfessor’s Social Problems program is a chapter-simulation program for the undergraduate social problems course: 832 original practice questions across 10 chapters plus three Social Problems in Depth sets, an applied analysis set, and a synthesis and integration set, organized by textbook and edition so chapter drills and timed simulation exams match the chapter your instructor is teaching. It rehearses your instructor’s chapter tests and finals — there is no licensing exam for a college course — with results reported by chapter.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of a social problems course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch and checked against verified disciplinary facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
832 questions, organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 10-chapter structure that mirrors the standard social problems course, from studying social problems: perspectives and claims-making through work, cities, environment, and war, plus three Social Problems in Depth sets spanning the course’s problem areas, plus an applied analysis set and a synthesis and integration set. The full chapter-by-chapter breakdown is in the coverage table below.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the poverty lectures? Drill that chapter until the difference between absolute and relative poverty feels automatic. Crime test in ten days? Work the criminal justice chapter in sequence, the way your course presents it.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single chapter is another book’s two. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so the chapter number in your practice means the same chapter in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, claims-making, or the measurement of poverty — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
A note on editions and course versions. Instructors adopt different textbooks and different editions of the same textbook, and departments periodically revise the course itself. The bank’s organization follows the discipline’s standard chapter structure — the sequence the field itself teaches — and the selector maps that structure onto your edition’s numbering, so a chapter that your book splits in two, or merges into one, still lines up with the practice built for it. Where an instructor reorders chapters, chapter drills can be assembled in your course’s order; the practice follows the syllabus, not the other way around.
The course at a glance
Social Problems has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what a social problems course covers and how to study it, see our Social Problems study guide.
| Undergraduate social problems — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Undergraduate college course (the standard sociology survey of social problems; commonly taken as a core sociology course or a general-education social science requirement) |
| Standard scope | Studying social problems: perspectives and claims-making; poverty, wealth, and economic inequality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; gender, sexuality, and inequality; crime, violence, and criminal justice; alcohol, drugs, and addiction; health, illness, and health care; families, aging, and intimate relationships; education: access, inequality, and reform; work, cities, environment, and war |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | 832 original questions across 10 chapters + Social Problems in Depth, applied analysis, and synthesis sets |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
Every question in the bank carries the chapter it belongs to. Counts below are the bank itself, counted question by question from the delivered file — they sum to 832.
| Chapter | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| Ch 1 — Studying Social Problems: Perspectives and Claims-Making | 48 |
| Ch 2 — Poverty, Wealth, and Economic Inequality | 41 |
| Ch 3 — Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration | 49 |
| Ch 4 — Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality | 43 |
| Ch 5 — Crime, Violence, and Criminal Justice | 40 |
| Ch 6 — Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction | 46 |
| Ch 7 — Health, Illness, and Health Care | 49 |
| Ch 8 — Families, Aging, and Intimate Relationships | 42 |
| Ch 9 — Education: Access, Inequality, and Reform | 47 |
| Ch 10 — Work, Cities, Environment, and War | 45 |
| Social Problems in Depth I | 99 |
| Social Problems in Depth II | 81 |
| Social Problems in Depth III | 95 |
| Applied Analysis | 19 |
| Synthesis and Integration | 88 |
| Total | 832 |
Depth follows the bank’s own structure: the Social Problems in Depth I set (99 questions) is the bank’s largest single set, and the three depth sets together revisit every core chapter at second-pass difficulty — this course is graded on applying one framework to many problem areas, and the bank’s weight sits where that application is practiced.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Social Problems, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Watch your chapter breakdown. Your results show which chapters are costing you. Return to the weakest chapter’s drill before moving on — social problems builds lens on lens — the perspectives and claims-making framework from the opening chapter is the instrument every problem chapter is examined with, so an early gap in the framework resurfaces in every chapter that follows.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the integrated set before midterms and finals. The cross-chapter questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the start of the term.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Social problems is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official social problems exam at the end of it. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the tests your own instructor gives, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the undergraduate course.
How many practice questions are in the program? The bank holds 832 original questions: the 10 chapters of the standard course, three Social Problems in Depth sets, an applied analysis set, and a synthesis and integration set. Every question is tagged to its chapter, so drills and simulations can be built over exactly the chapters your test covers.
Which textbook does the program follow? The program is organized around the standard chapter structure of the social problems course, and the textbook-and-edition selector maps the bank onto your book’s chapter order when you set up your course. No textbook is named, branded, or reproduced — the selector only aligns chapter numbering.
My course is called social issues or contemporary social problems. Is it the same course? In most programs, yes — those titles name the same sociology survey, with emphasis varying by instructor: some sections weight crime and health more heavily, others inequality. The bank’s chapter structure covers the shared core the titles describe, and chapter drills let you weight your practice the way your section does.
Does the program cover the sociological perspectives? Yes — the opening chapter and the depth sets carry the perspectives and the claims-making process as working tools, and every problem chapter is drilled through them. The graded performance in this course is applying a perspective to described facts, and the bank is built around that performance rather than around definitions alone.
What are the Social Problems in Depth, applied analysis, and synthesis sets? Second-pass material. The depth sets revisit the course’s problem areas in three layered sets at finer distinction; the applied analysis set presents compact cases asking for the best-supported reading; the synthesis set combines chapters the way cumulative finals do — a health disparity produced by housing policy, a crime trend explained jointly by economic change and enforcement.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters, so your practice can match a single chapter test, a unit exam, or a cumulative final.
Does the program take a position on the problems it covers? No. The program teaches the discipline’s analytical framework — perspectives, claims-making, measurement, competing explanations — and presents the evidence and arguments the course itself presents. Where sociologists disagree, the questions test whether you can identify which explanation a described position belongs to, not which side to take.
How does the program handle statistics and data questions? By drilling the habit the course teaches: every data item identifies its measure and source, and many items turn on what a rival measure would show. Practicing that way builds the measure-and-source reflex that graded exams in this course reward most consistently.
When can I start using the Social Problems program? Soon — the 832-question bank is complete and quality-checked, and the program is in final preparation. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of a social problems course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.