A degree awarded after 2 years of full-time study usually at a community college.
What is an Associate Degree
100
An occupation that usually requires special training.
What is a career?
100
A college admission exam which tests students in math, reading, writing and science. Usually taken in 11th grade.
What is an ACT?
100
Money to pay for college.
What is Financial Aid?
100
You learn by touching and doing.
What is a Tactile Learner?
200
A degree that takes 4 years of full-time study to complete. Required for some professions and for licenses in certain careers.
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
200
Education after high school.
What is post-secondary education?
200
A college or university employee responsible for making decisions about which student applicants will be admitted to their school.
What is an Admissions Counselor?
200
A financial aid award that does not have to be repaid.
What is a Grant?
200
You understand and remember things by sight. You can picture what your are learning in your head. You like to see what you are learning.
What is a Visual Learner?
300
A document that shows someone has met specific requirements that qualify them to perform a task or job.
What is a certification?
300
The amount of money a person earns for doing a job.
What is a salary?
300
Any club, team, event or organized activity that a student participates in outside of their academic coursework.
What is an Extracurricular Activity?
300
A financial aid award, administered by the federal government or a private company, which must be repaid often with interest charged.
What is a Loan?
300
You learn by reading or seeing pictures.
What is a Visual Learner?
400
The most advanced post-secondary degree; takes 3-7 years of study and research in addition to a bachelor's degree. If a person has this, they are considered an expert in the field.
What is a doctoral degree?
400
An occupation that usually requires special training.
What is a career?
400
The focus of a student's academic studies; usually in particular academic subject or professional field.
What is a Major?
400
A financial aid award that does not have to be repaid. Usually awarded based on good grades.
What is a Scholarship?
400
You prefer to touch, move, build, or draw what you learn. You need to be active and often speak with your hands.
What is a Tactile Learner?
500
A degree awarded to students who continue their education 1-3 years beyond their bachelor's degree. They usually focus on a specific topic in detail.
What is a Master's Degree?
500
A certificate that signifies a student has met the requirements to complete a program of study.
What is a Degree?
500
A number that represents the average of all the course grades a student receives in high school.
What is a Grade Point Average (GPA)?
500
A need-based federal program that is administered on campus. Eligible students are usually provided jobs on campus.
What is Work-Study?
500
You learn best by hearing and listening. You understand and remember things you have heard. You store information by the way it sounds and learn by reading out loud because you need to hear it to know it.