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GED is developed by the ACE to enable persons who have not graduated from high school to demonstrate the attainment of abilities normally associated with completion of a high school program.

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Test Specifications

The GED Battery includes five tests that measure the skills considered to be the major outcomes of a high school education. The tests focus on the major use of skills and concepts rather than upon recall of specific facts. The questions focus on the general abilities to analyze, evaluate, and draw conclusions. The subject areas of the test are as follow:

Language Arts – Writing: Sentence structure, appropriate usage of vocabulary and mechanics of writing. The essay is a writing exercise to determine how well candidate's can write providing proper reasoning, logical flow and examples supporting their arguments and ideas.

Language Arts – Reading: This includes understanding given information from sources such as newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and business or legal documents.

Science: Requires adequate understanding of the subject area including life & physical science, chemistry and physics by interpreting scientific data and possessing specified knowledge.

Social Studies: Requires adequate understanding of the subject area including history, geography, economics and civics by interpreting reading passages, analyzing graphs, tables and others.

Mathematics: This includes areas such as algebra, geometry, number theory, data analysis, and probability. Part I of the exam allows the use of a calculator; Part II does not.

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