What is the Testing Procedure?

You will be scheduled to write all five tests at your first writing session.

Most colleges write two tests on Friday night and three on Saturday, but a few do write all day Saturday. Please contact the college to verify their testing schedule.

You will record all your personal identification and answers onto answer sheets. It is important that you follow ALL instructions when completing the forms. The information MUST be complete and correct, as it will be the only record available to indicate that you have written the GED tests. If you do not fill in your Social Insurance Number correctly, there will be no way to identify which paper is yours, and if you do not indicate which test form you are writing, the answers cannot be marked. The invigilator at the testing session will help you identify which form you will be writing.

With the exception of Part II of the Language Arts Writing test, which requires you to write an essay, and the alternate format questions on the Mathematics test (see Appendix B for examples of the Standard Grid and Coordinate Plane Grid), all the questions on the five GED tests are multiple-choice. Each multiple-choice question has five possible answers.

On the answer sheet you will be required to fill in a circle to show which answer is best for each question. Be sure to fill in the space completely.

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