GED Test Format
The GED is made up of 5 sections.
- Language Arts, Writing Part I & II
- Social Studies
- Science
- Language Arts, Reading
- Mathematics Part I & II
The first and the last section of the GED, which are Language Arts, Writing and the Mathematics sections respectively, are divided into 2 parts. Except for the Language Arts - Writing Skills, which involves writing an essay and the Mathematics Test that consists of open-ended questions requiring some of the answers be entered on to an Alternative Grid or a Coordinate Plane, all other questions of the GED test sections are multiple-choice questions having with five answer choices. The difficulty of the questions varies from easy to hard casing an array of subjects.
The Language Arts -Writing Part I, has about 50 questions that have to be completed within 75 minutes, while the part II requires the student to write an essay of 50 words on the topic provided within 45 minutes. Language Arts, Reading section consist of 40 questions to be completed within a 65 minute time period. The section on Social Studies has about 50 questions to be completed within a 70-minute time slot, while the science section has a total of 50 questions to be completed in 80 minutes. The mathematics section deals with 50 questions that has to b completed in 90 minutes.