The GED Testing Service has decided to lower the pass rate for its high school equivalency exam, a move brought on by its recognition that students who passed the latest, tougher version of it were ...

MARION - A change in the passing score for the General Education Development (GED) Test could result in more people successfully obtaining a diploma. The GED Testing Service announced in January that ...

About 1,900 Georgians who failed the GED exam could retroactively receive their diplomas in a couple of months because the score required to pass the test will soon be lowered. The drop — from 150 to ...

For decades, students across the country have participated in General Education Development (GED) programs as an alternative to earning a diploma by way of the traditional high school design, ...

Austin Jones, a 20-year-old high school dropout, got a pleasant surprise last week. He had struggled to pass the math portion of the four-part General Educational Development test, or GED. On his ...

Passing high school-equivalency tests recently got a little easier in Kentucky and Ohio. Following GED Testing Service’s Jan. 26 recommendation, both states decreased the number of points required to ...

Cassie Aldridge says she isn’t worried about passing the science, social studies or language arts sections on the GED test, but the math portion is giving her fits. That’s why Aldridge, 30, of ...

Big changes to the way the GED exam is scored will make it easier for people to pass — two years after the test underwent a massive overhaul that led to steep drops in the number of students taking it ...

The move, first disclosed Wednesday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, will allow states to lower the passing score on the GED from 150 to 145. The GED Testing Service projected that if all states ...