Take GED practice tests over and over until you feel confident. Use your GED practice to form study tips that help you increase your score. You must prepare hard in order to pass the GED, and if you need to work on your study skills, practice tests will show you your weak areas. Find GED practice tests online or in study guides and familiarize yourself with the tests look and feel. If you can read on a tenth grade reading level, you should have no problem with reading comprehension. If you read below a tenth grade reading level, use a Pre-GED study guide to help you prepare. The five GED test areas, reading, writing, math, social studies and science are all timed individual tests with the writing test consisting of two parts. The practice tests can reveal any time managements problems. Do not only study the practice tests either. Spend time daily reading any general content to improve your reading speed and writing proper sentences on any subject to keep your writing skills sharp.
Find a study partner or mentor to help you prepare for the GED. Many communities offer adult education resources for those wishing to earn their GED and needing GED study tips. If no local study helps are available, take an online study course. The five GED test areas, reading, writing, math, social studies and science are all timed individual tests with the writing test consisting of two parts. A study partner or class can time your practice tests and reveal any time managements problems. Online study courses allow you to take timed practice tests and offer study tips to help you increase your score. As you study for each section of the GED, find someone proficient in each area to guide your study and answer questions as they come up. The GED contains the same information high school graduates must know so concentrate on the area you did not learn well in school.
Study subjects separately and memorize the core knowledge of each. Find your personal learning style (visual, auditory or kinesthetic) to help retain new knowledge longer. Visual learners remember more information by seeing or reading it, auditory learners remember more by hearing, and kinesthetic learners remember by doing something like a project with the information. Use all three styles combined to make the most of your study time. Make flash cards of what you need to memorize, read them daily aloud to hear the information. Memorize math formulas and technical terms. For science, practice using graphs, tables and charts by reading all the information found on them. Memorize literary terms and grammar rules . Most questions on the GED test use common sense to find the answers so practice eliminating obvious wrong answers and base your answers on knowledge you have memorized.