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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANSFIELD - Phones have been ringing off the hook at the local GED program office since last week, when GED Test Service announced it was lowering the score test-takers need to pass the test for high ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The GED is getting harder, and when we say harder, we found some college graduates can’t even pass it. A private company started designing the tests, making it four times more ...

Derwin Williams sits in a study room at Project Learn, a nonprofit organization in Cleveland that offers adult-education programs, with sample questions for the GED before him on a computer screen.

Back in his native Mexico, Sergio Salazar went to the university in Saltillo and became an architect. Those credentials didn’t mean much when he came to the United States in the 1980s. He didn’t speak ...

The GED Testing Service has decided to lower the pass rate for its high school equivalency exam, a move brought on by its recognition that students who passed the latest, tougher version of it were ...