ASSESSMENT FOR THE PREPAREDNESS OF SENIOR HIGH

SCHOOL STUDENTS UNDER ACADEMIC STRANDS FOR

COLLEGE

ABSTRACT
College or tertiary level of education is the Student’s chapter of life wherein they
will pursue their desired goals in the future .That why they must be prepared
enough before .Entering it. Upon preparation, they must first consider five factors
such as: family income, field of interest, chosen course for college and grades or
performance. All of these can be prepared in the pre- college level which is the
Senior High School. This program plays a significant role and function upon
preparing the students for college, these are: assessments that shapes their skills
and talents, trainings that prepares them for international workplace and programs
that can equip them the standard quality of education. In addition to the roles and
functions, the program provides a lot of benefits. Students under the Academic
strands are the ones that will mostly benefit from the college- adopted programs
being offered by Senior High School these are students from Accountancy,
Business and Management (ABM), Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) and
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The following
benefits they will receive from SHS are: On the Job Trainings (OJT), assessments,
applied and specialized subjects that have direct link to college, and other
programs that prepares them for tertiary level of education. Among all the SHS
Tracks, the Academic Strand students are expected to enter college in order to
continue the subjects they already took while they are in Senior High School,
because every subject being produces in this level are connected and extracted
from college level courses based on their strand. With the positive roles, functions,
impact and benefit of the Senior High School, many students considered the
positive effects of the program not just to them, but also on the teachers and family
relatives that are also the beneficiaries of the new educational system.