The move, first disclosed Wednesday by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, will allow states to lower the passing score on the GED from 150 to 145. The GED Testing Service projected that if all states ...

About 1,900 Georgians who failed the GED exam could retroactively receive their diplomas in a couple of months because the score required to pass the test will soon be lowered. The drop — from 150 to ...

Passing high school-equivalency tests recently got a little easier in Kentucky and Ohio. Following GED Testing Service’s Jan. 26 recommendation, both states decreased the number of points required to ...

After looking at GED test scores from the past 18 months, officials noticed students scoring a 150 were just as prepared for college or a career than those scoring five points less. The official ...

Austin Jones, a 20-year-old high school dropout, got a pleasant surprise last week. He had struggled to pass the math portion of the four-part General Educational Development test, or GED. On his ...

Recent changes to the GED have made it easier for students to obtain one and also provide college credit for high-scorers on the test. Effective Jan. 26, the GED Testing Service lowered the passing ...

Big changes to the way the GED exam is scored will make it easier for people to pass — two years after the test underwent a massive overhaul that led to steep drops in the number of students taking it ...

For decades, students across the country have participated in General Education Development (GED) programs as an alternative to earning a diploma by way of the traditional high school design, ...

About 1,900 Georgians who failed the GED exam could retroactively receive their diplomas in a couple of months because the score required to pass the test will soon be lowered. The drop — from 150 to ...

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 ...