Across the state and nation, adults are racing to earn their GED high school equivalency certificates by December — or start all over again with tougher, computerized tests next year. The ...

Beginning in January, the company that makes the GED test will switch to a new, more difficult exam, one taken entirely on computers. If Ellison doesn’t knock out the math portion by Dec. 31 ...

In this seven-week program, students will review the core academic concepts and strategies that will help them to successfully pass the GED sub-tests.

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 ...

Sarah Fearnow, a GED instructor at PCC, said the new test — actually a set of four tests in different subject areas — will focus more on creative problem-solving and less on memorizing facts.

The GED, however, began to lose credibility as its efficiency to test what one would learn in four years of high school—useless math and Shakespeare—came into question. It was too easy.

Now, just as GED questions have grown in difficulty, she is studying for the tests in language arts, math, social studies and science. “The new GED is so hard,” she said.

Beginning next year, the cost of taking the GED test to earn a high school equivalency degree will jump from $40 to $120, prompting advocates to urge people to take the test this year.

Next month, some people trying to get their GED may have to start all over again. Updated: 8:01 PM CST Nov 13, 2013 GED testing system to change next month ...

Hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts hoping to earn an equivalency diploma will have to pass a more challenging GED test that is being designed to improve the prospects of low-skilled ...

The Battle Creek YMCA will have GED testing available to students on Wednesdays. For more information about the YMCA's GED test center call 963-9622. After a year of waiting, students in Battle ...