GED Stories

Name: Andrew
Age: 17
City and State: Las Vegas, Nevada
What motivated you to get your GED? I dropped out of high school at the end of tenth grade, but you could say I dropped out the first day of the ninth grade. I didn’t have the motivation or anyone to push me to do my work, I [...]

Name: Nina
Age: 17
State: Rhode Island
What motivated you to get your GED? I dropped out of school at the age 16 as a freshman. I stood home all day doing nothing. I didn’t even want to work. One day I woke up and I told myself this isn’t what I wanted. I wanted to have BIG [...]

Name: Zaher
Hello everybody at GED Academy,
I have passed the GED exams and got an average score of 518. Your course has helped me a lot and I would never have passed the GED without this awesome help.

Name: Joshua
Age: 23
City and State: Austin, TX
What motivated you to get your GED? I obtained my GED because I was tired of dead end retail jobs. I knew the only way to live the life I wanted to was to get into college.

Name: Melissa
Age: 31
State: Texas
What motivated you to get your GED? After working in a restaurant for so many years, I finally realized that this is not the career I wanted. I wanted to be a successful business woman. As I got older, I got wiser about what kind of life style I wanted. Fast food [...]

Name: NaSha
Age: 21
City and State: Opelika, AL
Well, I am actually getting some material for my husband. He got kicked out of school when he was in the ninth grade. And I am helping him study.

Name: Korina
Age: 42
City and State: Lapeer, MI
What motivated you to get your GED? It seems that I am a typical mom. Always doing for my family, and leaving my interests, goals, and dreams on the back burner. I became a mom at a very young age. When my son was born he suffered a traumatic [...]

Name: Shanna
Age: 29
What motivated you to get your GED? I have been studying off and on for years but I just felt content with how my life was going, I didn’t try as hard as I should have. I have a pretty good job even without a GED. I finally realized I wanted to take [...]

Name: Sakina
What motivated you to get your GED? I finally realized when I enrolled in Devry University that I have to take the GED, due to my high school gave me the certificated. If it wasn’t for Devry University, I would have never known about it.

Name: Chinedu
Age: 18
City and State: Bronx, New York
I came into the U.S.A as an undergraduate from high school, final year to graduate I left my country. Now I’m anticipating forward to get my GED diploma in order to get to college and finish my program for my future projection.