High School Equivalency
Four subjects, one deck
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- Cards
- 101
- Categories
- 6
- Price
- €0.99
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn the four subjects of a high school equivalency programme: language arts and reasoning, numeracy, science, and social studies.
Four subjects sat in one week by adults who left school years ago. The hardest part is rarely the content; it is that nobody has explained what a thesis statement is for.
101 cards across all four. Language arts, where claim, evidence and reasoning are three separate things and the third is what gets left out. Reasoning, with the fallacies that actually appear in the passages. Numeracy, including the mental arithmetic that makes an answer checkable. Then the science and social studies that the other subjects assume.
No testing organisation's material is reproduced here. The programmes differ by state and each has its own current outline, which remains the authority for what is examined.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Grammar” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
What you learn
- Thesis, evidence and reasoning as three things
- The fallacies that actually appear in passages
- Grammar: agreement, fragments, modifiers, commas
- Numeracy: percent, median, unit price, estimation
- The science and civics the other subjects assume
The categories
6 categories sort the 101 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Grammar
- Language arts
- Numeracy
- Reasoning
- Science
- Social studies
What you get
Here are three of the 101 cards you get when you buy the deck.
Question
What is a thesis statement required to do?
Answer
Make an arguable claim, not announce a topic.
Note
“This essay is about pollution” is a topic; “the tax failed because it exempted the largest emitters” is a thesis.
Question
What is evidence in an argument?
Answer
Something a reader can check.
Note
An assertion repeated more confidently is not evidence, however true it may be.
Question
What is the difference between claim, evidence and reasoning?
Answer
What you say, what supports it, and why the support counts.
Note
The reasoning is the step most writers leave out, and the one graders look for.
Learning with Qardbox
You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.
What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.
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It is a shortcut: 101 checked cards for €0.99, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.
Common questions
Do I have to pay for Qardbox?
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Could I make these cards myself?
Yes, without limit and for free. You can type them, import a file or take over cards from friends. This deck only saves you the work.
How many cards are in High School Equivalency?
101 cards, sorted into 6 categories.
Do I need a connection to study?
Only to download the deck. After that it lives on your device and you study offline. There is no account, and you sign in nowhere.
Which devices does this run on?
On iPhone and iPad from iOS 26, and on Apple Watch. One purchase covers the family through Family Sharing.
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