Career/ College Prep Vocabulary Test #3

Undergraduate academic degree awarded by a college after completing a program that is designed to last 2 years.

• Associate's Degree
• Competitive Admission
• Transcript
• GPA

Tools designed to help people understand how their personal skills would fit into different career options.

• Career Assessment
• Community College
• Plagiarizing
• Apprenticeship

Local colleges that usually specialize in certification and associate degree programs.

• Community College
• Dual Enrollment
• ACT
• Transcript

When colleges have a limited number of space, they choose who get those spaces based on who is the best candidate.

• Competitive Admission
• Plagiarizing
• Apprenticeship
• Associate's Degree

High School students who are taking college courses along with their high school classes.

• Dual Enrollment
• Competitive Admission
• Transcript
• Career Assessment

To take someone else's work or idea and pass it off as your own.

• Plagiarizing
• Apprenticeship
• Competitive Admission
• GPA

Grade Point Average. Measured as total number of grade points averaged divided by number of credits received.

• GPA
• ACT
• Community College
• Transcript

American College Test. A standardized college admissions test.

• ACT
• GPA
• Dual Enrollment
• Career Assessment

Working for another person in order to learn a skill while also being paid.

• Apprenticeship
• Competitive Admission
• Dual Enrollment
• ACT

An official record of a student's work, showing courses taken and grades achieved.

• Transcript
• Career Assessment
• Competitive Admission
• Plagiarizing