In 2013, 18,474 high-school dropouts in Washington state took a wide-ranging exam known as the GED to earn a high-school certificate. About 86 percent — nearly 16,000 — passed. For years, passing that ...

WASHINGTON — The GED test, for decades the brand name for the high school equivalency exam, is about to undergo some changes. On Thursday, an upgraded GED exam and two new competing equivalency tests ...

The GED Testing Service has decided to lower the passing score for its high-school-equivalency exam, a move brought on by data showing that students who passed the latest, tougher version of the test ...

Kaplan is Now the Official Partner for Live Online Prep for the GED ® test WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GED Testing Service and Kaplan Test Prep have partnered to deliver the market’s first-ever ...

The GED test underwent a major revision in 2014%2C becoming more difficult for students to pass. Adult education experts say it will now take many students far longer to prepare for the exam. Some%2C ...

Time is up for Salem test-taker Inafa Barsukoff, who was hoping to earn the equivalent of a high school diploma before January. Barsukoff was about 40 points shy of passing the General Educational ...

The General Educational Development program, or GED, is undergoing the biggest revamping in its 69-year history, driven by mounting recognition that young adults’ future success depends on getting ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Test-takers tackling the GED face a new challenge _ a revised, tougher exam that its designers say is more reflective of what is being taught in the nation's high schools. The ...

Zira Smith, a divorced mother of two and a 10th-grade dropout, studied for and passed her General Educational Development exam in 1967. Since then she has never looked back. Smith, now 47, went on to ...

The number of people who earned a GED last year declined significantly, following the first major revamp of the high school equivalency test in over a decade. Critics of the updated exam point to a ...