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Guide Learners & Career Seekers to Their Next Milestone

Provide an accessible solution that will help students and working adults accomplish their education and career goals. Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep is an online learning resource that offers a central hub for standardized test prep, college planning, career assessment, job searches, and more. 

Test prep resources help users prepare for a variety of standardized exams, including college entry exams like the SAT and ACT, and vocational exams in industries like law enforcement, journeyman, cosmetology, as well as U.S. citizenship. Students can find college planning tools, including a school search and a scholarship search. Job seekers can take advantage of career exploration tools including career assessments, advice, help creating resumés and cover letters, and a job search engine. Plus, learners can find additional materials to brush up on foundational skills in math and science, reading and writing, and computer technology to support their future endeavors.

  • Platform Features and Functionality
    • User-Friendly Experience: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep offers multiple browsing options, allowing users to search for specific content or scroll through the home page to discover resources tailored to their needs. 
    • Spanish-Language Accessibility: Users can toggle between English and Spanish to experience the resource in their preferred language, catering to the needs of more diverse audiences.
    • Goal-Setting: The goal-setting feature allows users to set academic and career goals, save relevant resources, and track their progress. By guiding users through objectives tied to their goals, this feature keeps learners organized and focused on their outcomes.
  • Test Prep

    Offer exam prep for many key exams taken by high school students, undergrads, graduates, and professional learners—including vocational and career-focused exams.

    Exam prep resources include practice tests, courses, and interactive lessons for users to learn and test their knowledge. Learners can use flashcards to memorize concepts, videos to refresh their understanding of specific subjects, and full-length test prep eBooks to explore on or offline. Practice exams are timed and automatically graded for review. While essay responses are not graded, once users submit their essays, they’ll see examples of high-scoring responses and explanations. 

    Test prep content is included to support all types of learners:

    • Foundational Skills: Help students and adults brush up on academic skills with interactive tutorials and quizzes in math and science, reading and writing, and computer skills.
    • High School: Advanced Placement (AP), High School Equivalency, STEM
    • College Entrance:
      • Undergraduate: ACT, CLEP, DSST, SAT
      • Graduate School: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT
    • Vocational: Help job seekers prepare for certification, credentialing, and licensing exams from more than 15 career categories.
      • Accountant/Auditor
      • ACT WorkKeys 
      • American Foreign Service Officer
      • Aviation and Transportation 
      • Clerical 
      • Cosmetology
      • Firefighter 
      • Hospitality
      • Information Technology 
      • Journeyman Exam Prep
      • Law Enforcement Careers
      • Medical/Nursing 
      • Military
      • Postal 
      • Real Estate
      • Social Work 
      • Teaching
    • International: 
      • U.S. Citizenship
      • English as a Foreign Language: TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS
  • College Planning
    • School Search: Users can search nearly 4,200 accredited schools to find the perfect fit. Search criteria include location, area of study, admission requirements, school size, tuition, and more so prospective students can define their priorities and create a customized list of potential colleges.
    • Scholarship Search: Users can easily find awards and grants to help cut college costs. The scholarship search includes an award description, monetary value, application requirements, deadlines, and contact information for an in-depth look at potential scholarships. 
    • Financial Aid Tools: Students can take a financial aid quiz focused on testing their knowledge about key financial aid descriptions, options, and requirements.
  • Career Exploration
    • Assessments: Help students and adults in the workforce discover their ideal career path with a personalized career survey that uncovers occupations that align with their strengths and interests. Once users complete the assessment, they’re given character traits based on the “Holland Codes,” a widely respected system used by the U.S. Department of Labor to help categorize career paths. 
    • Career Advice: Users can explore an extensive library of articles, blogs, and tip sheets offering insight from HR and career-related experts covering topics like interviewing and networking; transitioning out of the military; making a career change; salary negotiations; working for the Fed, State, or local governments; benefits of temping; overseas jobs; and more.
    • Online Resumé, Cover Letter, and Personal Website: Users can easily create a standout resumé for their job or internship search with the resumé tool, which offers sample content for entry-, mid-, and senior-level positions across various industries. Users can upload existing resumés in Word, PDF, or PPT, or import their LinkedIn profiles. For those starting from scratch, the tool provides over 20 customizable templates, with options to adjust sections, colors, and fonts. Once finished, users can share or download their resumé, cover letter, or website. 
    • Job Search: Powered by the U.S. Department of Labor and Indeed, job seekers can search for specific roles based on geography and apply on the platform. The job board is broken into government and nongovernment for precise discovery. 

Find These Top Test Prep Resources & More

ACT Test Prep

Make test day easier. Students can prepare for the ACT without hiring a tutor or purchasing other study materials. Mandatory sections, such as English, math, reading, and science, are covered on practice tests. Plus, there’s an optional writing section.

ASVAB Prep and AFOQT Prep

Determining whether you’re right for a career in the U.S. armed services requires qualifying first. Online pretests can help guide users through the types of questions they can expect on the actual tests.

Citizenship Test Prep

Ease some of the anxiety that goes with preparing for U.S. citizenship. This database helps immigrants know the types of questions to expect during the testing and gives them sample exams to prepare for it.

GED Test Prep

Provide practice questions and pretesting assistance for those preparing for the GED. The GED is an alternative to a U.S. high school diploma and can give adults the helping hand they need to move forward with college or a career.

GRE Test Prep

Scoring well on the GRE entrance exam is extremely difficult without the proper preparation, which includes practice questions. This database narrows in on the subject matter that students hoping to get into grad school can expect on test day.

SAT Prep and PSAT Prep

Students can determine their college readiness with SAT and PSAT pretests. Mandatory sections, such as math and evidence-based reading and writing, are covered on practice tests. Plus, there’s an optional essay portion for the SAT.

Other Tests

Make testing less of an unknown with pretests that are scored and cover a broad array of specific interests. Even college planning is supported with search tools, financial aid information, and more.

Hear from Librarians

“This is a valuable tool for us to offer the most current test prep available, and the citizenship tools are also vital to our community.” — Modern Library Awards Judge

 

“This is the best database relating to college and career preparation for teens that we use at our library! It has so many resources and the patrons love it!” — Modern Library Awards Judge

 

“The detailed advice and study materials broken down by individual exam is an amazing value for patrons, who can save so much money and time directly through Peterson's.” — Modern Library Awards Judge

 

“We’ve been offering Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep for several years now and we’ve had many patrons report significant score improvements on graduate and professional program entrance tests such as the LSAT and MCAT. This resource has truly been a game-changer for our library. It provides a digital alternative to our paper-based test prep resources, which are in high demand, particularly for military aptitude tests.”
– Suzy Murray, e-resources librarian at Sacramento Public Library 

 

“The thing I like best about Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep is that it has up-to-date practice eBooks for a wide variety of tests. To provide all of these up-to-date eBooks in print would be very expensive and time-consuming for staff. We love that we have a tool so our customers can access these types of materials from their own homes, 24/7. Whether our customers are looking to improve SAT scores or studying to be a nurse, Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep can help. The tools and features used most by my customers are the career tools (advice, resumé help, etc.) and test prep and practice tests (SATs, LSATs, Praxis, ASVAB, etc.). We’ve had a lot of success with the amount of use the product gets. So far in 2023, our customers have logged in over sixteen thousand times. I would advise other libraries who are considering Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep that it really is a very comprehensive product that can help such a wide variety of learners and job seekers. It’s very easy to use and the information is very up-to-date.”
– Danielle Stanley, electronic resources manager, Phoenix Public Library 

Read Reviews from the Media

Library Journal 
eReview Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep
By James Rhoades
"This Gale database provides a plethora of tools, tests, and preparation that will satisfy and assist users at any stage of their learning journey. An outstanding resource, especially recommended for public libraries and high school libraries."

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School Library Journal
SLJ Reviews Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep Database
By Maggie Knapp, Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth, TX
“Clean, thoughtful navigation makes it easy to immediately tap into big goals and test prep, or emerge from a session with a targeted list of colleges and scholarship application info or a smart-looking resumé, interview tips, and job leads. Post-high school potential includes graduate school, law, veterinary, and medical school applicants, veterans, and those taking the U.S. citizenship exam. Useful for all high schools, colleges, and public libraries, especially for self-paced and motivated students, and to supplement the insights of college and career counselors.”
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Booklist
Spotlight on Reference: Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
“Gale has partnered with Peterson’s to provide a centralized, one-stop website of college and career readiness test preparation and career/college exploration … Navigation and searching are intuitive. The videos are close-captioned, and users can bookmark resources and view their progress. Tech support is available. The website is also available in Spanish. Overall, a good selection for career- and test-prep collections.”
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Choose an Award-Winning Solution

PLATINUM AWARD WINNER, 2025 MODERN LIBRARY AWARDS
Winners are judged by librarians who are actual users of the products and services.

Best College & Career Readiness Solution
Education Technology Finalist
2024 SIIA CODiE Awards 

Cool Tool Finalist: Career Planning Solution and College Prep Solution 
2024 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Awards

Overall Career Prep Solution of the Year
EdTech Breakthrough Award in Career Development & Preparation

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