GED Stories

Name: Theresa
Age: 21
City and State: Windsor CT

What motivated you to get your GED? I wanted to go back to school and get a good career.

How have your friends and family helped you? They told me to go out and get it.

What problems have you faced? I have short term memory so I need help in everything that I need.

What do you hope to gain from getting your GED? I want to own my own daycare.

Theresa,

A lot of people think that they have back memories. But there are a lot of ways to overcome “bad memory.” Part of it is understanding how memory works. If you understand something, you don’t need to memorize it… and the GED doesn’t require you to memorize facts or dates. If you can understand and learn thinking skills, you can get your GED. It’s the understanding that matters, not the memorization.

When you do need to remember something, there are memory tricks and study techniques you can use to improve your memory. One good technique involves spending time recalling what you’ve learned. If you don’t try to recall what you’ve learned, your mind can think it’s not important and discard it. By actively trying to remember what you’ve learned a few minutes later, then an hour later, then a day later, you teach your mind that you’ll need to recall that information.

That’s just one technique… but there are a lot of ways you can improve your learning, even if you think you’ve got a “bad memory.” The GED Academy program includes a lot of techniques to help you. You can pass your GED!

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