Five separate tests make up the GED battery of tests. Test questions range in difficulty from easy to hard, and cover a wide range of subjects. All the questions on four of the parts are multiple choice with five possible answers given. Part II of the Writing Skills Tests does require you to write an essay.

The content of these tests are as follows:

Writing Skills, Part I (50 questions, 75 minutes)

15% Organization

30% Sentence Structure

30% Usage

25% Mechanics

Writing Skills, Part II (45 minutes)

Essay

Social Studies (50 questions, 70 minutes)

15% History

30% Geography

30% Civics and Government

25% Economics

Science (50 questions, 80 minutes)

45% Life Science

20% Earth and Space Science

35% Physical Sciences

Language Arts, Reading (40 questions, 60 minutes)

20% Comprehension

15% Application

30-35% Analysis

30-35% Synthesis

Mathematics (50 questions, 90 minutes)

4 areas: Number Operations, Measurement/Geometry, Data Analysis/Statistics, and Algebra

Each content area will account for 20% to 30% of the entire test;
approximately 20% will be in the Procedural domain,
approximately 30% will be in the Conceptual domain,
and 50% will be in the Applications/Modeling/Problem Solving domain

For more information on GED testing contact Jane Carwell at (706) 756-4619.