AUSTIN (KXAN) — Math questions on the STAAR test continue to be under scrutiny, but no action was taken Wednesday by the State Board of Education. “This is their lives. This is so important to them.

The test’s developers say they changed it to align it with the Common Core and better reflect what students currently learn in high school. The GED is revised regularly; the previous overhaul was in ...

If the two sample GED math questions in the Jan. 26 newspaper (“Test yourself with these sample GED test questions”) are representative of the math test, I need to send my high school diploma back to ...

Even though the deadline is still a year away, Nell Boyd, 56, already feels the mounting pressure to retake and pass the math portion of the high school general equivalency exam. "The frustration and ...

As our story on the overhaul of the GED test suggests, the new test will be substantially different. It will have to be administered via computer — in part because of the complexity of the design of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The GED test ends on May 3. It will be replaced by a new Canadian-based test that's been developed in Alberta. (Mike Heenan/CBC - ...

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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 ...