General Educational Development (GED)
2012 GED Series
The General Educational Development Testing Service (GED Testing Service®) of the American Council on Education® is pleased to announce the development of a new 2012 Series of the GED Test, which will be released on January 1, 2012 (other non English-language editions will be released in 2013).
All GED examinees should be advised that scores earned on the current 2002 series or previous test series will not be able to be combined with those earned on the new 2012 Series GED Test. By Saturday, December 10, 2011, examinees must have taken and earned minimum scores on all five content area assessments [language arts, reading; language arts, writing; social studies; science; and mathematics] and earned the minimum total passing standard on the 2002 series, or they will need to take the entire 2012 Series test battery.
General Information for 2002 GED Series
The Massachusetts Department of Education issues a Massachusetts State High School Equivalency Diploma to adults who successfully complete the General Educational Development (GED) Test Battery. The battery consists of five (5) timed multiple-choice tests: Language Arts: Writing, Social Studies, Science, Language Arts: Reading, and Mathematics. See Series Tests Page for more details about these tests.
The GED test is designed to measure your ability to understand and use information or ideas. In many cases you are asked to use the information provided to solve a problem, and to analyze and evaluate information. The test does not require you to answer questions about narrow definitions or specific facts. Instead, the questions focus on the major and lasting skills and knowledge expected of high school graduates.
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