GED Academy Links

Affirmative action is a highly contested idea, which gives enhanced opportunities to minorities who have experienced discrimination. Learn both sides of the argument about affirmative action, and improve your thinking skills. (more…)

When you want to convince someone of something, what do you do? You make an argument. You tell them why they should do what you want, or think what you want. So, how do you make a good argument? What makes an argument convincing? Read more about what makes good arguments: (more…)

Understanding cause and effect relationships is an essential critical thinking skill for the GED and for life. (more…)

A persuasive argument is used to convince someone of your ideas. It’s important to learn how to write persuasively, and it’s also important to recognize when someone else is making a persuasive argument and to be able to evaluate it. Learn more about persuasion at these websites: (more…)

When you’re looking for information, it’s important to know good information from bad information. Here are some guides to learn more about evaluating information. (more…)

An inference is something that is not directly stated in the text, but you can guess it based on the text. Making inferences is an important critical thinking skill. (more…)

Identifying the main idea of a reading helps you understand what you read and create a good summary. Learn more about main ideas here: (more…)

Here are some quizzes to test your knowledge of facts and opinions: (more…)