Quizzes, exams, and flashcards about Science: GED and HiSET science — force, motion and waves, GED and HiSET science — human body and health, GED and…
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Ninety minutes on the GED, eighty on the HiSET, and on both it is a reading and reasoning test that happens to use science as its material.
The GED names three things: reading for meaning in science, designing and interpreting science experiments, and using numbers and graphics in science. The HiSET asks you to use science content knowledge, apply the principles of scientific inquiry, and interpret and evaluate scientific information.
The middle item on both lists is the one that decides marks. Experimental reasoning — what the independent variable is, what the control is for, what a result does and does not establish — is examined on every paper and is the part least likely to be covered by revising content. You can know what photosynthesis is and still lose a question that asks which of four experiments would test whether light intensity affects the rate of it.
The content itself spans life science, physical science and earth and space science, at roughly the level of a general high school course: cells and body systems, heredity, ecosystems and energy flow, atoms and compounds, chemical and physical change, forces and motion, energy and its transfers, the water and carbon cycles, weather, and the solar system.
Fourteen materials: evidence and conclusions, reading graphs, tables and data, science calculations, a set mixing experiments with recurring content, and content sets on life science (including the body and health, DNA and heredity, and ecosystems), physical science (including chemical reactions, energy, and force, motion and waves) and earth and space science — 166 quiz questions in all, each material with flashcards, written questions and a practice exam. Every experiment is invented, and every number is small enough to check in your head.
The distractors are the reasoning errors, named in each explanation — a conclusion the data do not support, a variable that was never controlled, a correlation read as a cause, a result generalized beyond the conditions it was measured under.
Most questions give their data in words, while both real papers use diagrams, graphs and tables heavily; one set draws the line graphs, bar charts, scatter plots and flow diagrams. For more of that specific skill, use the free practice tests both organizations publish, and practice reading a graph's axes and units before its shape.
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