GED Sample Test Questions Mathematics:
The Mathematics Test is divided into two equally weighted parts, each containing 25 questions. On Part I of the test, you may use the Casio fx-260 calculator to compute answers. A calculator will be provided for your use at the official GED Testing Center. Because estimation and mental math are critical skills, you are not permitted to use the calculator on Part II of the test.
The Mathematics Test assesses your understanding of mathematical concepts and the application of those concepts to various real-world situations. The following four major areas are tested on the Mathematics Test:
Although 80% of the mathematics questions are multiple choice, 20% of the questions require you to construct your own answer. Rather than select from five choices, you must record answers on either standard or coordinate plane grids. Both Parts I and II of the Mathematics Test have multiple-choice, standard grid, and coordinate plane grid questions.
GED Sample Test Questions Science:
The Science Test consists of 50 multiple-choice questions in the following content areas:
Test questions require you to understand, interpret, or apply information that is provided on the test or that is learned through life experience. The information may be a paragraph, chart, table, graph, map, or figure.
GED Sample Test Questions Language Arts: Reading
The Language Arts, Reading Test contains 40 multiple-choice questions that measure your ability to comprehend and interpret workplace and academic reading selections and to apply those interpretations to new contexts. The questions ask you to understand, apply, analyze, and synthesize information that you are given in the reading selections.
Literary texts constitute 75% of each test and include at least one selection from each of the following areas:
Nonfiction texts constitute 25% of each test and include two selections of nonfiction prose from any two of the following areas:
Workplace and community documents, such as mission and goal statements, rules for employee behavior, legal documents, and communications (for example, letters and excerpts from manuals).
The reading selections in the Language Arts, Reading Test range from 200 to 400 words, with poetry running from 8 to 25 lines. A purpose question appears in bold before each selection; the question is designed solely to help you focus and provide a purpose for reading the text. You are not asked to answer the purpose question. Each selection is followed by four to eight questions.
GED Sample Test Questions Social Studies:
The Social Studies Test contains 50 multiple-choice questions from the following content areas:
(Note: There are different U.S. and Canadian versions of the Social Studies Test.)
Most of the test questions are based on written and visual texts drawn from a variety of sources, including academic and workplace texts, as well as primary and secondary sources. The information provided may be one or more paragraphs, a chart, table, graph, map, photograph, cartoon, or figure. In every case, to answer the questions in the Social Studies Test, you must understand, apply, analyze, or evaluate the information provided.