Learning math for the GED test and HiSET exam can be challenging if you’ve been out of school for awhile, but Essential Math Skills teaches math in the context of real life situations. Each lesson starts with how the skill connects to the things you encounter everyday, and explains the skill in ways that are easy to understand and apply. You get to practice with the types of problems you’ll see on the test and you check your skills to make sure you got it! By building on real life situations you learn deeper and more thoroughly.

High school equivalency tests have raised the bar on writing and language competencies. To pass, you will need to be able to examine argumentative passages and analyze the claims, arguments and evidence, and then write a clear argument supporting a position. Essential Writing and Language Skills uses a unique way to teach you these critical skills by connecting new ideas to familiar concepts to help you learn how to develop strategies for making writing decisions. You practice your skills with real life situations to build deep understanding and get practice with actual high school equivalency type questions to make sure you will do well on the tests.

Good reading skills are critical to passing your high school equivalency test, but just as important for college level reading and comprehension. The Essential Reading Skills workbook focuses on developing high level vocabulary skills as well as a deep understanding of how to identify central themes, arguments, literary conventions, story structure, and point of view. You get practice on reading strategically with both fiction and nonfiction texts while learning the must-have-skills of questioning while reading, skimming and scanning, and how to use graphic organizers to develop deep meaning in texts.