ADS 159 - GED Preparation

7.2 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn the comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and writing skills needed to prepare for the GED test in the areas of math, reading, science, and social studies. Topics to be covered include interpretation of informational passages, analysis of specific claims in scientific and historical reading, derive evidence and develop text based arguments, interpret scientific and historical information from tables, graphs, and diagrams, construct an analytic response using source texts, and complete a timed response.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. analyze passages to derive correct answers;
2. evaluate/assess validity of arguments and specific claims;
3. demonstrate the ability to support conclusions with text-based evidence;
4. interpret information in graphs, charts, tables, and pictures;
5. compose responses to source text by integrating reading and writing skills;
6. identify and apply major scientific and historical theories to scenarios;
7. interpret the ecological and economic impact of global issues;
8. apply key concepts and relevant ideas in response to a prompt;
9. analyze how ideas and events interact
10. interpret data standards and statistics;
11. solve word problems containing complex factoring, quadratic equations, and polynomials;
12. solve measurement problems containing complex figures; and
13. use geometric formulas correctly to solve word problems.