GED PLUS College Preparation Curriculum

Upward Bound (Five-week session)

Upward Bound is a pre-secondary program designed to motivate and provide academic skills for eligible students interested in education at the secondary level. The program provides opportunities for participants to develop greater proficiency in pre-secondary literacy and arithmetic skills and ultimately in their secondary education pursuits. Upward Bound serves students who performed below expectations on the Extension’s pre-GED or placement examinations in Language Arts and Mathematics. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education.

Lower-secondary

First Year

1. Mathematics
2. Language Arts-Reading and Writing
3. Social Studies*
4. Integrated Science

*All students will sit the GED Social Studies Examination at the end of their first year of studies.

Second Year

1. Mathematics
2. Language Arts-Reading and Writing
3. Spanish
4. Integrated Science*
5. Information Technology*

*All students will sit the GED Integrated Science Examination at the end of their second year of studies.
*Information Technology will be offered on the main campus during the end-of-year break in an accelerated eight-week session.

Upper-secondary (Third and Fourth Years)

1. Mathematics*
2. Language Arts-Reading and Writing*
3. Principles of Business
4. Principles of Accounts or Visual Arts

*All students will sit the GED Language Arts -Reading and Writing and Mathematics Examinations at the end of their fourth year of studies.
*Students will be able to sit the CSEC examinations in English A, Mathematics, Principles of Business, and Principles of Accounts or Visual Arts as an option.

GED Examinations

The GED is a set of five exams encompassing the core subjects that are taught in traditional high schools. The GED is for students, who for some reason or another, did not complete high school. When the GED exam is passed, the student will receive a Diploma of General Educational Development that is the equivalent to a high school diploma. It can help a person get a job, and even help them get into postsecondary institutions.
The five parts of the GED consist of language arts-writing ;  language arts-reading; social studies; math; and science.

1. The language arts-writing portion of the GED focuses on skills such as sentence structure, grammar (both print and mechanical). The GED also goes over proper usage of words and the organization of sentences and essays.
2. The language arts-reading portion of the GED focuses on reading comprehension by having the student read several different types of documents including poetry, drama, nonfiction, fiction, and community and career documents.
3. The social studies portion of the GED focuses on Belizean History, Geography, Civics, and Economics.
4. The math portion of the GED focuses on Measurements and Geometry, algebra, data analysis/statistics, and number operations and number sense.
5. The science portion of the GED focuses on Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science.