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TASC ENGLISH ESSAY'S

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HI TASC TAKERS, (Essay links are located at the bottom of the post)      Hopefully you are moving closer to your goal of getting your High School Equivalency Diploma (HSE). In the past I have usually focused on helping students with their science and social studies needs. However, many of my students have requested assistance with essay writing for the TASC exam. Usually it is difficult to get any online help since essay grading is still fundamentally a human task (no pun intended). Therefore unless you are in a classroom your a bit out of luck when it comes to someone reading over your essay.       I figured since most of the TASC exam testing is moving away from paper, now might be a good time to see how you could possibly get an essays submitted and graded using Google Forms. As an added bonus, you can practice your typing (or is it called keyboarding? hmm!). Taking the test by computer is somewhat different then the old pen and paper. For one thing, you get to use digi
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SOCIAL STUDIES: Practice Readiness Test #1

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Good Day TASC Takers: So you are enrolled in a program and need to see if your ready to take the practice test that will eventually lead to you passing the actual TASC exam. Except how do you know if you are really ready?  One thing you can do is take a practice exam.  (Skip the reading and take the test:  CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE TEST NOW! ) If you need to download a hard copy of the exam and the answer sheet click here:   Practice Readiness Test.pdf Exam Timing and Format Currently the Social Studies TASC section is 75 minutes long, and has 50 questions. Therefore you have about 1 minute and 30 seconds to complete each response. The practice test below has content from all 5 sections that are tested on the Social Studies TASC exam and should be completed in 25-30 minutes. If you have an IEP or 504 plan you should add an additional 25 minutes (total time: about 50 minutes) to complete the practice exam.  The social studies exam test's your knowledge in United Stat
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TASC SCIENCE STUDY PACKET 4: Life Science

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Good Day TASC takers. Here is day 4 out of a 7 day science prep course. If you prefer to work offline and need to download the entire study file click on the link below: TASC 7 DAY SCIENCE STUDY GUIDE   Understanding how the structure of DNA systems on our planet are interconnected will yield good results on the TASC exam since this is a "thinking test." Try and focus on the relationships between human activity, the environment, and the changes that are occurring all around you. 
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TASC SCIENCE STUDY PACKET DAY 3: Earth and Space Science

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Good Day TASC takers. Here is day 3 out of a 7 day science prep course. If you prefer to work offline and need to download the entire study file click on the link below: TASC 7 DAY SCIENCE STUDY GUIDE   Understanding how different systems on our planet are interconnected will yield good results on the TASC exam since this is a "thinking test." Try and focus on the relationships between human activity, the environment, and the changes that are occurring all around you. Earth and Space Science Day 3: Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate. Solar radiation  (the process of giving off energy in the form of waves or particles)   comes to Earth mainly in the form of visible light and heat. Some of the light is reflected into space when it hits Earth’s atmosphere. Some of the light is absorbed by the atmosphere, while the remainder passes through the atmosphere and strikes Earth’s s
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