Blessed by reading, writing, and education, I have chosen to give back by helping high school equivalency candidates. In addition to tutoring, I have written howtopasstheged.com. Approaching one thousand printed pages in length, this free online book is a finished product that provides 24/7 access to preparatory materials for seekers and teachers alike.
The strongest predictor of career and college readiness is the ability to read and comprehend. Accordingly, the GED is primarily a reading test. The GED’s Reasoning Through Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science tests emphasize passages in which reading comprehension is more important for answering questions than tapping into an encyclopedic memory.
Within the Reasoning Through Language Arts test, the GED has planted a writing test, an essay known as an extended response, which is also a reading test. Before beginning the essay, a test-taker must read and comprehend a pair of passages that function as a writing prompt.
Even the GED’s Mathematical Reasoning test doubles as a reading test, because a test-taker is tasked with deciphering word problems before crunching numbers.
All in all, the GED champions reading for far more than a test.