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Ability to Benefit
How to get help paying for college without a high school diploma or GED.
What is Ability to Benefit?
It’s a federal financial aid rule that allows students without a high school diploma (or an equivalent like a GED or home school diploma) to qualify for financial aid if they prove they have the ability to benefit from a college education. Financial aid can help you pay for tuition, books, fees and other educational expenses for college-level classes.
Who is eligible for Ability to Benefit?
You may be eligible if you:
- Don’t have a high school diploma or GED
- Are 17 or older (If you are 17-18, you must be formally released from high school before enrolling.)
- Participate in a career pathway for Truck Tech, Health Care, IT, or
If you want more information please email to Edric Lysne at edric.lysne@spps.org
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College Readiness
REQUIREMENTS
- High school diploma or GED
- TABE Score: 501+ (L1) / 517+ (L2)
- TABE Forms: Reading M/D 11/12
L1=Native English Speakers; L2= Non-Native English Speakers
ACADEMIC SKILLS
- Determine the direction of an academic passage
- Cite evidence from text during class discussions
- Identify type of evidence author uses as evidence (primary, secondary, research)
- Describe the purpose of graphs and charts (line bar, and pie)
- Find specific information on a graph/chart
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St. Paul College Math
REQUIREMENTS
- High school diploma or GED
- TABE Scores: 449-536
- TABE Forms: Math E/M
- For students enrolled at St. Paul College
MATH SKILLS
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and sign numbers.
- Apply equality properties to solve equations involving one or two operations
- Apply models and real-world investigation to develop operations for integers.
- Convert between US and Metric measures of length, weight, and capacity.
- Convert between fractions, decimals, and percent.
- Define a percent as a ratio and solve percent applications.
- Define algebraic expressions, terms, like and unlike terms.
- Evaluate formulas given replacement values and use formulas to solve problems.
- Identify and apply the order of operations for calculations.
- Read and write decimal numbers and round decimal numbers to a specified place.
- Solve application problems with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, and proportions.
- Translate application problems into equations.
- Translate word problems into equations.
- Write rates as unit rates and unit costs.
- Write ratios of two quantities in simplest form.
