GED Stories

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: Shaheen
Age: 20
City and State: Aubrey, Texas
What motivated you to get your GED? The gears in my life have been rusting these past few years, they haven’t moved in a long time & I feel that it is necessary to acquire a GED in order for me to get those gears cleaned, oiled up and [...]

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:      Janice
Age:      61
City and State:     Sherman, Texas
I left school the beginning of my junior year. Struggled because I did not apply myself, and then I met John and that was my way out. Needless to say, way to young and very stupid. I know how to make it, but without the GED [...]

Name:      Lynn
City and State:     Cincinnati, Ohio
Well, I’ve been trying for my GED for the past year and I’m getting a little frustrated because I can’t get the math part of it.

Name: Brenna
Age: 16
City and State: Oregon
I always had trouble with math. It’s always affected me in school but now I want to get my GED and still get a nice paying job in my life. I left school because I didn’t like going to math class and getting teased for not knowing what 6 [...]

Hi, I’m married for 23 years. We raised one son who graduated from high school in May of 2005. My husband and I are very proud of him. I have a new puppy named Babi, so cute. Mostly I was a stay at home mom, but my son is gone in his own place and [...]

I took my GED math 6 times I still can’t pass it. What should i do?

I took my GED test last year for the first time in August. I passed everything except math. I kind of figured that if I was to fail anything it would be math, unfortunately, I did. I only failed by 20 points.