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Acellus High School Equivalency Exam Prep Courses
Passing the GED, or an equivalent test, can be a crucial element for career and college readiness. It is essential that students preparing to take any high school equivalency exam have a strong foundation of knowledge in literacy, mathematics, social studies, and science, the four core areas tested by the GED, HiSET, and TASC.
In response to the increased rigor of the 2014 GED Exam, Acellus provides schools and Educational Centers with a four course series designed to help prepare students to pass the updated GED exam. The Acellus High School Equivalency Exam Prep series covers mathematics, literature and writing, social studies, and science. These courses are also used to prepare for the HiSET and TASC.
Online Access Supports Working Adults
Acellus coursework can be done independently and on a flexible timetable, allowing those who are on busy and restrictive schedules to still complete their coursework. Acellus courses are taught by master teachers. Each video lesson covers a single concept and is built into an adaptive and interactive interface. Students are continually assessed, and when knowledge gaps are identified, Acellus immediately provides additional targeted video instruction to fill in those holes. Students are able to easily move past the areas that they have mastered, only spending extra time on the concepts that they struggle with.
Acellus High School Equivalency Exam Prep Courses
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS EXAM PREP
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This course focuses on reasoning through language arts via an integrated approach, reading carefully, writing about reading material, and the demonstration of good command of English language conventions. Areas covered include the following:
- Comprehension and summarization of details and ideas
- Inference of implied ideas
- Creation of evidence-based generalizations based on textual details
- Editing for effective support of logic and clarity
- Paragraph development and organizational skills
- Editing to ensure proper sentence structure
MATHEMATICS EXAM PREP
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This course focuses on mathematical reasoning, including precision and fluency in executing and applying core computations, as well as learning to apply quantitative and algebraic reasoning skills within a wide range of academic, real-life, and workplace contexts. Specific areas include the following:
- Basics of mathematics
- Fractions, decimals, percents, and probability
- Basics of Geometry, perimeter, area, surface area, and volume
- Pre-Algebra
- Integers, rational numbers, and properties of Algebra
- Algebra
- Expressions, order of operations, and sets
- Absolute value, square roots, squares, and irrationals
- Equations and their applications
- Graphing, inequalities, and systems of equations
- Polynomials and operations with polynomials
- Rational expressions
SCIENCE EXAM PREP
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This course emphasizes the ability to apply scientific reasoning skills to three areas: Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science, with understanding of scientific content pertaining to the themes of health and the human body, and energy. Specific areas covered include the following:
- Properties and types of matter, and changes in matter
- Forms of energy – heat, electricity, and waves
- Forces, motion, work and machines
- Alternative energy sources
- Plate tectonics, earthquakes, mountains, and volcanoes
- Earth in space, comets, asteroids, stars, star systems, and galaxies
- Ecology
- Cell structure, function, and transport
- Cellular energy, cell division, genetics, and evolution
SOCIAL STUDIES EXAM PREP
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This course places emphasis on applying reasoning skills in social studies to content drawn from four areas: Civics and Government, United States History, Economics, and Geography and the World. This includes textual analysis and understanding, skills in data representation and inference, and solving problems in the context of social studies. Areas covered include the following:
- The foundations of the United States Government
- The Constitution
- Checks and balances
- The Bill of Rights and Amendments
- Political participation and parties
- How elections work, and the influence of mass media
- Historical foundations and nationalism
- Reformation, and the Union in Peril
- The First World War
- World War II
- Post-War America and Civil Rights
- Contemporary Issues: 1945 to the Present
- Basics of Personal Finance
- Basics of Geography
Progress Monitoring Leverages Teachers
Whether a student is working at school or at home, local teachers receive immediate reports on student progress via the Live Class Monitor. The live monitor provides real-time data to alert teachers when students are struggling. Teachers can see the concept the student is working on, each answer inputted, and the intervention Acellus is providing to that student. Students can reach out to a teacher with questions at any time via the Messaging system. Acellus will also send a message to the local teacher when a student fails an exam or extra assistance is suggested.
Grading is done automatically by Acellus, and logged in the online Acellus Gradebook. The Gradebook also records every action done by students, including time logged in, total time spent, each answer inputted by the student, and overall grade on each lesson, unit, mid-term, and final exam.
