GED Stories

Name: Jessica
Age: 18
City and State: Jefferson, TX

What motivated you to get your GED? I just knew that I needed to hurry up and do something with my life to better me and my baby.

How have your friends and family helped you? My mom or my grandmother would take me to my GED classes every night. Now the only thing I have to do is take the test.

What problems have you faced? I’ve been having problems with the math section in the GED book. I’ve bettered myself some by just studying that one section.

What do you hope to gain from getting your GED? Well, I hope to gain a better future for me and my family. My dream is to take this GED and pass it and go to Kilgore College in Longview and major in cosmetology, and when I finish a year of that move to Dallas, get a job working in someone’s hair shop, and work on getting my own shop.

Jessica,

You’ve done a lot of hard work. You’re almost there. And you can do it! This was the right choice. Focus on showing them what you know, and approach the test with confidence.

For the test, here’s our advice: get some sleep the night before. Relax. Don’t let worrying or being nervous get you down. You’ve studied. You’ve been to class. You know this stuff. Watch your time while you take the test. Answer all the easy questions first… you want to make sure you get all the answers you KNOW down on the test. Then, go back to work on the harder ones. If you just don’t know it, or it’s going to take too much time, guess.

If math is giving you problems, you can pass the other parts of the test and then just focus on improving your math skills. Let us know if we can help. And let us know when you pass!

The GED Academy