Every year, roughly 750,000 high school dropouts try to improve their educational and employment prospects by taking the General Educational Development test, or GED, long considered to be the ...

The GED test is getting an overhaul. The exam has historically served adults who have fallen through the cracks of the educational system. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Anthony Carnevale, director of ...

An overhaul of the GED to meet Common Core standards has made the high school equivalency test more rigorous and more expensive. As a result, fewer people are taking and passing it. Gwen Ifill gets ...

The move, first disclosed Wednesday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, will allow states to lower the passing score on the GED from 150 to 145. The GED Testing Service projected that if all states ...

The new test eliminates the paper-and-pencil option%2C requiring students to use computers GED Testing Service is trying to align test to traditional high school standards The non-profit testing ...

Here’s a quick way to see the trend lines before and after the 2014 debut of the new GED: On the new General Educational Development exam, a passing score is 145 out of 200. In 2017, average scores ...

Onsego offers online GED courses for people who want to pass the GED test quickly. Students who pass the GED test, get a high school equivalency diploma. This diploma has the same value as a regular ...

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The GED test underwent a major revision in 2014%2C becoming more difficult for students to pass. Adult education experts say it will now take many students far longer to prepare for the exam. Some%2C ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Five months after officials revamped the GED exam to better reflect high school proficiency, fewer people are taking and passing the test across the USA, according to the education ...