GED TEST SECTIONS
INTRODUCTION
GED means General Education Development. It is made for those people who have not been complete their higher education due to some personal circumstances. General Education Development (GED) tests are administered internationally through authorized test centers. GED test developed in 1942.
SECTIONS OF GED TEST
The GED test made up for 5 sections. They are:
Language arts: writing
Language arts: reading
Social studies
Science
Mathematics
LANGUAGE ARTS: WRITING
The language arts writing test consists of two parts. Part 1 consists of 50 multiple choice questions that involve students to amend and modify. There are total of 50 questions that completed within 75 minutes. Part 1 consists of 30% of the questions on sentence structure. It involves correcting sentence fragments, run on sentences, comma splices, misplaced modifiers, and lack of parallel structure. Another 30% part of this questions deal with usage, i.e. correction of errors in subject verbs and verb tenses. And the 25% of questions related to mechanics. Students require correcting the errors in punctuation, capitalization and spellings. The next 15% of the questions are organizations, which involves, restructure of paragraphs or ideas within paragraphs.
The part 2 evaluates the capability of a student to write an essay on a well known topic. The essay must be required 200- 250 words. It is the test of student’s ideas, point of view, logic and reasoning, vocabulary and its usage. The time of essay completion must be 45 minutes. The scores earned on the both parts are summed up and reported as a single score.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This section consists of 50 multiple choice questions that needed to complete within 70 minutes. This section covers the following topics.
25% national history
20% economics
25% civics and governments
15% World history
15% Geography
The material provided could be from a paragraph, graph, cartoon or figure, map, table, chart, photograph. The method of answering the question in social studies test is through understanding the questions and then applying, analyze, the information that provided.
SCIENCE
This section consists of 50 multiple choice questions that needed to complete within 80 minutes. This section covers the following areas.
45% life science
20% earth and space
35% physics and chemistry
These questions involve the students understanding about the chart, table, graph, or figure to use their knowledge through his experience in life and work.
LANGUAGE ARTS: READING
This section consists of 40 multiple choice questions that needed to complete within 65 minutes. Candidates are required to interpret written prose and poetry passages and answer the questions based on them. This section covers the following areas.
75% literacy test
25% nonfiction prose
The literacy test 75% area comprise it those sections.
- Poetry
- Drama
- Prose fiction before 1920
- Prose fiction between 1920 and 1960
- Prose fiction after 1960
Non fiction prose 25% area comprises:
Reading section are about 200 to 400 words in length and poetry parts about 8 to 25 lines each. Each of the passage or poetry has about four to eight questions.
MATHEMATICS
This section consists of 50 multiple choice questions that needed to complete within 90 minutes. This section is the test of student’s mathematical concepts and ability to use these concepts in the real life. The concepts cover under this section.
25% numbers: number sense and operations
25% measurement and geometry
25% data statistics and probability
25% algebra functions and patterns
Only 80% of mathematical questions are based on multiple choices and other 20% questions call for the student’s to make up their own questions.
SCORES
The candidates should score more than 40% of the graduating high school seniors. The candidate should score about 410 in the GED exam to clear it and get the diploma.
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