Looking for a way to take the GED online? As you may well know, the Web has spawned hundreds of sites devoted to this very pursuit, and many of them make it easy to get a ballpark estimate of how you might do on the real test. The bad news, however, […]

Anyone who has ever taken a practice GED online knows that such an exercise can prove an easy and effective way to tell how you’re doing in your studies. If you pass it with ease, chances are you won’t have any trouble taking the real thing at a testing center. […]

Studying for the GED can be every bit as unstimulating as you may have heard. The truth is that this test was never designed to be either stimulating or challenging. Mostly, what it has been is a frequently mind-numbing, if marginally effective, exercise in the application of rudimentary skills.

Online GED testing can only do so much. Even if you’ve demonstrated you can master high school-level questions, you may not be able to do the kind of advanced planning and execution of long-form critical thinking exercises that come up so much in adult life. Employers know this, which is […]

The problem with many online GED schools is that they only prepare you for the GED itself. If you’re taking the test as a means to an end–usually to find a better job and to improve your chances for professional advancement–you may discover that the test alone doesn’t quite give […]