My name is Leonard Williams. I’m a GED instructor and have been doing this for quite a few years. I’d like to tell you about a student of mine named Lydia. I learned a big lesson from her, one I thought might be useful to you.

Lydia was like many of my students. She dropped out of high school in the tenth grade because of family problems and because she was bored with school. Five years later she was a single mom and struggling. Without a GED, life was looking a little bleak.

Lydia’s academic situation was like that of most people in my classes. It has been years since they were in school and they have forgotten the basics of how to study.

Lydia was in a hurry.

Lydia wanted to get her GED right away and was impatient with the way I was teaching. She came to me one day after class to tell me that she was having trouble learning the material. She explained, or rather complained, that my classes were just like the ones she took in high school and that she was losing interest. Basically, she was telling me that my classes were boring.

A wakeup call for me. . .

No one likes to be criticized, me included. But the more I thought about what Lydia was saying, the more sense it made to me. I began to question the way I was teaching and what I could do to help students like Lydia succeed.

What did Lydia need to pass the GED?

It was clear to me that some of what Lydia needed was not included in the usual curriculum for the GED, and not even taught in most high schools or colleges. Here’s what I figured Lydia needed:

1. She needed to develop some basic study skills. It was obvious that though she was spending time reading the material and doing practice problems, things were not sinking in. She was not retaining the material.
   
   
2. Lydia needed to understand some of the basic principles of how people learn. She was wasting most of the time she spent reading and doing practice problems because she didn’t understand the way people learn. I needed to show her a better way to learn.
   
   
3. Lydia needed to learn how to manage her time during study and especially during the test. She had very little experience taking standardized tests and could improve her score by 15% or more just by following some simple guessing strategies.
   
   
4. She needed help with writing the essay. It wasn’t that Lydia was a bad writer; she simply had very little experience with the essay form of writing.

So my problem was to find a way to help Lydia. It was clear she needed more than a couple of GED study guides. Luckily, I located a group of instructors who had written an e-book that covered all this and more. Their e-book is called How to Prepare for the GED, written by Michael Ormsby.

This e-book is easy to read and understand, and it offers something that cannot be found in any of the free GED study guides available. It gives you the skills, the knowledge, and the techniques you need to pass the GED.

So what happened with Lydia?

Back to Lydia. This is where the story gets good. How to Prepare for the GED lit a fire under Lydia! Instead of sitting in the back of the room like she always did, she moved to the front of the classroom because she knew the material and wanted to get involved.

Lydia stopped complaining and started learning. She no longer wasted her time reading and re-reading the same material over and over. She read it once and remembered it. And even better, she remembered what we talked about in class because she had learned to take notes and study them.

Lydia passed the GED in two months!

The best part was that Lydia passed the GED in just two months. She didn’t even stay to finish my class. As I said, she was in a hurry.

Why I like this book better than all the rest.

Now, we all know that just buying a GED study guide isn’t going to guarantee that you pass the GED. But what I can tell you is that How to Prepare for the GED is a must read for anyone seriously wanting to pass the GED.

• Why you probably don’t need to study science, social studies, or history to pass the GED.
• How your skill in playing video and computer games will help you solve math word problems.
• Eight study secrets that will save you hundreds of hours.
• Why thinking and reasoning skills will be the most important things you need to know to pass the GED.
• Learning how to learn so that you can make GED prep a breeze.
• Proven guessing strategies that will improve your guessing by 60%.
• How to spot the trick questions the GED test writers use to take away your multiple-choice question advantage.
• Five test taking secrets that will improve your score by 25%.
• An easy to use essay outline you can memorize in five minutes that will give you high scoring essays every time.
• Easy ways to improve your vocabulary for the GED.
• How to get motivated to study. A little known secret that will change your attitude about studying.
• Five ways to improve your memory. Learn how there is no such thing as a “bad memory”, just poor methods of imprinting knowledge where you can access it easily.
• What you can do to prevent “test anxiety” for the GED.

Other things you should know.

How to Prepare for the GED is written by Michael Ormsby, a teacher at passGED.com. He has written several books on education and taught thousands of students in high school basics. He works with a group of teachers, instructional designers, and computer geniuses who are on the cutting edge of finding new ways to educate people. With the technology of the computer, they make learning fun again, like it was in the first grade.

PassGED.com online purchases are secure and safe. PassGED uses VeriSign, the largest and most secure online credit card processor. Contact Us

PassGED guarantees their e-book. If after using this e-book, How to Prepare for the GED, you don’t think it will substantially improve your score, just send me an email at Contact Us. Your purchase will be credited immediately. No questions asked.

What are people saying?

I asked some people who bought How to Prepare for the GED if they would share their opinions and ratings of the e-book. Here’s what they said:

"I give it four stars. I spent a lot of money on other study guides, but none of them gave me this information. I can definitely say it helped me get a higher score on the GED. The best money I ever spent.” Sam Sheppard West Bend, IN

"It gets the highest rating from me. The part that helped me most was the test taking tips. That alone improved my score by 35 points in each test area. I know, because I took the test two times before I passed it. I wish I had read this book before I took the test the first time!” Wayne Rudiman Medford, OR

"This book saved me time and $$$$. One of my teachers at the Community College recommended it to me so I downloaded it and made a copy to use in my study. Saved me a lot of time. Thanks, Michael.” Rene Sanchez LA, CA.

If you have any questions about the book or preparing for the GED you can to write me at: Contact Us

Leonard Williams
GED Instructor