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What is the GED Online High School Diploma

The GED ,developed by the American Council on Education (also known as ACE),is a set of five tests that represent the subject matter taught in traditional high school. Also known as General Equivalency Diploma and General Educational development, the GED is meant as a substitute for a high school diploma. Individuals may seek a GED for many different reasons. They may have dropped out of traditional high school because of lack of motivation, illness, family or personal problems, or they may have moved to the United States from another country where the educational system is different.
Originally the GED was developed to educate soldiers coming back from World War II. The GED is offered in the United States and Canada. There used to be a version of the GED that was meant for college degrees, but it is now only available for high school equivalency. The only requirement that an individual has to meet before seeking a GED is that they cannot already have a high school diploma or be enrolled in high school.
An individual may seek a GED at many different locations including community colleges, universities and even correctional facilities. Despite many different locations to take the GED, the GED cannot be taken online. Individuals of all different ages seek GEDs and they are sought for many different reasons, including the beginning or advancement of career and to further their education. Many jobs require a minimum of a high school diploma or GED. In order to seek a high degree an individual must have obtained a high school degree or GED first. The GED is offered in many different formats including Braille, audio, large print, and in a variety of different languages including Spanish and French.
The GED consists of five different sections: Language arts-writing, language arts-reading, social studies, math, and science. Whether or not an individual can break up the tests or take them all at once depends upon the state, but there are many ways to prepare for the test include, GED prep classes, online classes, GED study books and guides, as well as private tutors. Although it depends upon the state, in order to pass the GED, an individual generally needs to answer fifty to sixty percent of the questions in each section correctly.
An individual wishing to take the GED will probably need to practice before taking it. Signing up for the GED just means that the individual is signing up for the test, not a class or study session. Depending upon the states, some states may allow individuals to retake just portions of the GED that they did not pass; other states require them to retake the whole test. If an individual does not have any formal high school education they will probably need to study for at least a month. The GED does have varying degrees of success; an individual either passes or fails. Most companies looking to hire individuals who have take the GED, and even colleges looking at applications, do not look to see how well the individual did on the GED, they just want to make sure they passed. There are some college scholarships available for students who pass the GED with extremely high scores.

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