The test’s developers say they changed it to align it with the Common Core and better reflect what students currently learn in high school. The GED is revised regularly; the previous overhaul was in ...

For 26-year-old Sequoia Dennis, the days leading up to Dec. 19 looked like this: Get up, go to math class, eat lunch, go to math class, come home and do more math. Dennis, of Allentown, was getting ...

WASHINGTON — The GED test, for decades the brand name for the high school equivalency exam, is about to undergo some changes. On Thursday, an upgraded GED exam and two new competing equivalency tests ...

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To earn a high school equivalency degree at New Jersey's newest GED testing center, applicants need to know their math, social studies and science. They also need one more skill unique to the center.

High school dropouts are lining up in Tucson to take the test that could change their lives before the paper and pencil version disappears. The general equivalency diploma exam is going digital Jan. 1 ...

Oxnard resident Daniel Govea, 25, knows the GED test he plans to take later this month is much more difficult than the one offered last year. But Govea, who dropped out of high school seven years ago, ...

Currently, GED applicants in New Jersey pay $50 to take all five sections of the test the first time, then $10 each time they retest a section. Students are tested in reading, writing, math, science ...

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 process to ...