Comments on: Top 5 GED Study Secrets http://www.passged.com/blog/2007/11/20/top-5-ged-study-secrets/ Everything you need to know about the GED Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:25:34 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.passged.com/blog/2007/11/20/top-5-ged-study-secrets/comment-page-1/#comment-2414 Michael Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:57:37 +0000 http://www.passged.com/blog/top-5-ged-study-secrets#comment-2414 Carl, The math section is the hardest one for most learners. 390 is pretty close to passing, considering your total scores. How have you been studying for the math portion of the exam? Have you been using a book? Taking a class? Using online resources? There are a lot of areas of math on the GED, so the important thing for you is to identify what you're having trouble with so you can know what to study. Unfortunately, the GED doesn't tell you what you got right or wrong! So, take a practice test or think back to the GED test, if you can remember it well enough. Try to pick out what you had trouble with from this list of types of things on the math test: How to change word problems into the right math problem? Spending a lot of time doing math problems instead of estimating? Using the Casio calculator? Using fractions, decimals, or percentages? Solving interest rate problems? Knowing types of measurements (metric measures like centimeter and kilometer or converting things like miles to other measures)? Adding or subtracting measurements? Mean, median or mode (averaging, or looking at groups of data)? Simple, independent, or dependent probability, like the likelihood of picking a card out of a deck? Reading and understanding tables, charts, and graphs? Finding "x" in an equation, simplifying an equation with x's, or factoring an equation (algebra)? Exponents and roots (i.e. x squared) or scientific notation? Graphing equations, lines, or points on a graph? Finding perimeter, area, or volume in geometric figures? Lines and angles? (Parallel lines with lines crossing them, types of angles, relationships of angles, angles in the corners of figures, right triangles)? Types of geometric shapes or comparing geometric shapes? Whew! Seems like a long list, right? Well, try to narrow it down to three or four things that are giving you difficulty, and then research, learn, and practice those things. I'm thinking that focusing your studying this way will help bring up your score to what you need. Carl,

The math section is the hardest one for most learners. 390 is pretty close to passing, considering your total scores.

How have you been studying for the math portion of the exam? Have you been using a book? Taking a class? Using online resources?

There are a lot of areas of math on the GED, so the important thing for you is to identify what you’re having trouble with so you can know what to study. Unfortunately, the GED doesn’t tell you what you got right or wrong! So, take a practice test or think back to the GED test, if you can remember it well enough. Try to pick out what you had trouble with from this list of types of things on the math test:

How to change word problems into the right math problem?
Spending a lot of time doing math problems instead of estimating?
Using the Casio calculator?
Using fractions, decimals, or percentages?
Solving interest rate problems?
Knowing types of measurements (metric measures like centimeter and kilometer or converting things like miles to other measures)?
Adding or subtracting measurements?
Mean, median or mode (averaging, or looking at groups of data)?
Simple, independent, or dependent probability, like the likelihood of picking a card out of a deck?
Reading and understanding tables, charts, and graphs?
Finding “x” in an equation, simplifying an equation with x’s, or factoring an equation (algebra)?
Exponents and roots (i.e. x squared) or scientific notation?
Graphing equations, lines, or points on a graph?
Finding perimeter, area, or volume in geometric figures?
Lines and angles? (Parallel lines with lines crossing them, types of angles, relationships of angles, angles in the corners of figures, right triangles)?
Types of geometric shapes or comparing geometric shapes?

Whew! Seems like a long list, right? Well, try to narrow it down to three or four things that are giving you difficulty, and then research, learn, and practice those things. I’m thinking that focusing your studying this way will help bring up your score to what you need.

]]> By: Leonard’s Newsletters » Blog Archive » Newsletter: GED Study Tips http://www.passged.com/blog/2007/11/20/top-5-ged-study-secrets/comment-page-1/#comment-2413 Leonard’s Newsletters » Blog Archive » Newsletter: GED Study Tips Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:39:02 +0000 http://www.passged.com/blog/top-5-ged-study-secrets#comment-2413 [...] Hi! Leonard Williams here. In our survey, the thing people were most interested in was tips on how to study well. I’ve just published a good article about that that you can read, called Top 5 Study Secrets. [...] [...] Hi! Leonard Williams here. In our survey, the thing people were most interested in was tips on how to study well. I’ve just published a good article about that that you can read, called Top 5 Study Secrets. [...]

]]> By: Carl Fenimore http://www.passged.com/blog/2007/11/20/top-5-ged-study-secrets/comment-page-1/#comment-2408 Carl Fenimore Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:46:34 +0000 http://www.passged.com/blog/top-5-ged-study-secrets#comment-2408 I just completed my test last month and faild for the second time. My over all scores were 2110 & 2180, math was and continues to be an opportunitie for me. I just can't seem to grasp the math at all. My scores for math are as follows... 360 & 390. Any advise would be welcomed. Thanks, Carl Fenimore I just completed my test last month and faild for the second time.

My over all scores were 2110 & 2180, math was and continues to be an opportunitie for me. I just can’t seem to grasp the math at all. My scores for math are as follows… 360 & 390.

Any advise would be welcomed.

Thanks,
Carl Fenimore

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