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Details of the Merit GED Prep Bundle

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Covers the key problem areas on the GED exam

The GED Prep Bundle covers the key problem areas on the GED exam, and helps students complete the requirements for the General Education Development (GED) exam. The programs contain a wide variety of interactive learning activities that have been effective in mastering skills relevant to GED success. The bundle will familiarize students with the type of content they will see on the exam. Lessons are self-paced and self-correcting. Student scores are tracked in a record management system that allows instructors and students to view results and print reports.

    The GED Prep Bundle consists of the following areas and packages:

  • Language Arts: Reading and Critical Thinking Skills
  • Concepts covered:
    Determine main idea of passages
    Identify sequence of details in reading passages
    Draw inferences from text
    Draw conclusions by choosing salient information from text
    Understand vocabulary from context by choosing contextual clues
    Increase vocabulary recognition
    Differentiate between fact and opinion
    Recall facts and details
    Write sentences using key words from text to demonstrate comprehension
    Understand, analyze, and interpret written materials based on work-related topics
    Packages included:
    • Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper Grades, Sets 3 and 4
      Helps students improve reading comprehension.
    • Reading Strategies For Career Success, Sets 1 and 2
      Sharpens students ability to understand and interpret career related materials.

  • Language Arts: Writing Skills
  • Concepts covered:
    Recognize and practice the elements of essay writing
    Use pre-writing strategies
    Organize ideas
    Write clear, descriptive sentences
    Focus writing on a central topic
    Support and elaborate on ideas with details and facts
    Develop relationships among ideas
    Develop and organize paragraphs
    Use and understand an effective organizational pattern
    Practice proofreading and editing
    Identify common problems in writing, usage, and punctuation
    Analyze and revise drafts to strengthen writing
    Build writing strategies and skills for work-related communication
    Packages included:
    • Essay Punch
      Takes students through the steps of writing an essay.
    • Grammar Fitness, Set 2
      Helps students master troublesome points of grammar.
    • Grammar Fitness For Upper Grades, Set 3
      Helps students master more challenging points of grammar.
    • Writing For Business
      Guides students in writing effective paragraphs useful in the business world.

  • Mathematics: Computation and Problem-Solving Skills
  • Concepts covered:
    Practice the basics of algebra
    Work with formulas
    Use operations with integers
    Simplify expressions
    Solve multi-step equations
    Apply algebra to solve word problems
    Break down word problems into steps
    Relate word problem language to math
    Use key words to choose operations and set up equations
    Work with real life word problems
    Interpret information from graphs
    Analyze data tables
    Use ratios, proportions, and scales
    Packages included:
    • Basic Algebra Shape-Up, Sets 1 and 2
      Hands-on tutorials that cover integers, expressions, equations, and more.
    • Word Problem Shape-Up, Sets 2 and 3
      Teaches students how to solve fraction, decimal, and percent word problems.

  • Science
  • Concepts covered:
    Practice problem solving questions
    Develops conceptual understanding of science concepts
    Review passages with illustrated content
    Covers life science, physical science, earth science, and space science
    Packages included:
    • Science Reading for College Prep
      Sharpens students ability to interpret science texts.

  • Social Studies
  • Concepts covered:
    Measures concepts from history, geography, civics and government, and economics
    Covers comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation questions
    Learn to comprehend charts, maps, tables, political cartoons
    Uses U.S. historical documents as source materials
    Packages included:
    • Social Studies Reading for College Prep
      Sharpens students ability to interpret social studies texts.