ACTIVITIES TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE 10TH GRADE, (SOPHOMORES):

All the following activities should be accomplished during the 10th grade. Review this first
when your student registers for courses.

•Review and revise as appropriate, educational pathway and courses listed on
four-year planning sheet.
•Meet graduation requirements to date and enroll in a full-time program.
•Receive educational and/or career planning information necessary as
preparation for 11th grade registration.
•Receive summer school information if there are failed requirements.
•Enroll in at least four academic courses or vocational pathway courses that
are appropriate to career goal. For example, a major in engineering
generally requires four years of college- preparatory math and three years
of science.
•Begin Internet, career center or library search of college costs,
scholarships and possible financial aid available for college.



CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAM

Sophomores will be taking the California High School Exit Exam next March 17 and 18. In addition
to subject and credit requirements, this exam must be passed in order to graduate. This test
covers reading (vocabulary, informational reading, and literary reading), writing (strategies,
applications and conventions), and mathematics (statistics, data analysis, probability, number
sense, measurement, geometry, algebra and functions, mathematical reasoning, algebra 1.)
Results are available about 7 weeks after the test is given.