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GED Prep Bundle
Covers the key problem areas on the GED exam.

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.
“Students really like the clues and the feedback.”
- Adult Literacy Center, Bristol, NH
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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

Language Arts: Writing Skills
Concepts covered include:

  • 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

Mathematics: Computation and Problem-Solving Skills
Concepts covered include:

  • 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

Science
Concepts covered include:

  • 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

Social Studies
Concepts covered include:

  • 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

Each of the Merit Software Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP programs in this package requires 5 to 8 MB RAM. About 150 MB hard disk space is required if all of the programs are installed. All programs also require a minimum screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels.

GED Prep Bundle consists of the following titles:

Language Arts: Reading and Critical Thinking Skills

Language Arts: Writing Skills

Mathematics: Computation and Problem-Solving Skills

Science

Social Studies

The GED Prep Bundle consists of 8 separate software programs that have been effective in preparing students for the GED exam.

Evaluation versions of all of the programs may be downloaded by clicking the 'Download Demo' link for the corresponding program (each program approximately 10MB).

Language Arts: Reading and Critical Thinking Skills

Language Arts: Writing Skills

Mathematics: Computation and Problem-Solving Skills

Science

Social Studies

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GED Prep Bundle - $335.00 $249.00

 
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Represents a substantial discount compared to purchasing programs separately.


PROGRAM VERSIONS PRICE
Home Version $335.00
$249.00*
1 Station: Stand-alone $875.00
5 Pack: 1 Station: Stand-alone $3,055.00
5 Stations: Networkable $5,415.00
10 Stations: Networkable $9,206.00
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* Special pricing until August 31, 2010



All versions of Merit programs come with the Teacher Program Manager which allows for student record keeping.




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