GED Tests
Writing Skills
Language Arts Reading 
(Test One)
Writing Skills Test


This test has two parts:
Part I:  a multiple choice test
Part II: 250 word-essay (about 2 pages).

  • Part One is a multiple choice test and it measures your proofreading skills. You must be able to identify errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and sentence structure.

  • Part Two of the Writing Skills test asks you to write your thoughts on a topic that is given to you. It must be about 200 words or a page and a half.

(Test 2)
Social Studies Test

There are 50 questions and 80 minutes for this test. Most of the questions can be answered by using information found in short articles, graphs, charts and maps. The subjects covered on this test are:
  • history
  • geography
  • economics
  • civics or government
(Test 3)
Science Test

There are 50 questions and 80 minutes for this test. Most of the questions can be answered by using the information found in the articles, definitions, and illustrations. The subjects covered on this test are:
  • biology
  • earth science
  • physics
  • chemistry
(Test 4)
Language Arts Reading Test

This test is called Interpreting Literature and the Arts : 40 questions and 65 minutes. Almost all the questions on this test can be answered by reading the poem, play excerpt,essay or business document and answering multiple choice questions.
(Test 5)
Math Test

In this test there are 50 questions and 90 minutes.
About half of the test is arithmetic and the other half is divided between algebra and geometry. You don't have to memorize complicated algebraic formulas to pass this test, but you must be very good at handling word problems.
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