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Descriptions of GED Test Sections
 

Language Arts Writing

This test has two parts. The first part includes a test of editing sentences. The test has 50 multiple choice questions covering four major content areas including:

Organization of paragraphs
Sentence Structure
Usage - correct word choice
Mechanics - spelling, capitalization, & punctuation

The second part of the writing test requires the student to write an essay. The Essay Test provides the student with a topic of common, general interest and asks them to write a 250 word expository essay to analyze and explain the topic. The essay will receive a score on one of four levels: effective (4), adequate (3), marginal (2), and inadequate (1). You can not pass the writing test if you score lower than 2 on the essay.

Language Arts Reading Test

Test includes 40 multiple choice questions linked to 200 to 400 word passages. Thirty of the questions are based on fiction, poetry, and drama. Ten of the items cover nonfiction works. (Biographies, autobiographies, essays, newspaper articles, magazine articles, speeches, film reviews, business documents such as memos, handbooks, and manuals).
The student is asked to read the passages and chose the correct response.

Social Studies Test

This test includes 50 multiple choice questions based on documents, brief reading passages, graphics, charts, graphs, maps, photographs, and editorial cartoons.

The following breakdown shows the content areas covered:

U.S. History 25% (from Native Americans to the Present)
World History 15% (from ancient times to the present)
Economics 20% (types of economic systems and supply & demand)
Civics and Government 25% (how state, federal, and local governments work and the role of the citizen in the nation)
Geography 15% (Peoples, regions, and natural resources)

Science Test

This test includes 50 multiple choice questions based on reading passages, tables and charts, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and diagrams. Content covered includes 45% life science such as evolution, cells, genetics, organisms, and ecosystems. 20% of the test includes environmental/people interactions. The final 35% of the test includes physical science areas of physics and chemistry. This test requires the same thinking skills as the social studies test.

Mathematics Test

The test includes 50 questions; 25 of which can be answered using the Casio FX 260 solar calculator. This calculator will be provided for you during testing. The remaining 25 questions can not be answered with a calculator.

The following content area breakdown applies to the math test:

Number Operations & Number Sense (20-30%)
Solving problems using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, signed numbers, ratio, proportion, and percent.

Measurement & Geometry (20-30%)
Applying the metric and English system of measurement, finding the measure of angles, and finding the perimeter, area, and volume of geometric figures.
        Data, Statistics, and Probability (20-30%)
        Analyzing data, drawing conclusions from charts, and graphs, and making predictions.

        Algebra, Functions & Patterns (20-30%)
        Evaluating algebraic expressions, writing and solving equations and inequalities, and applying functional
        relationships to solve problems.       

 

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