Is it acceptable to print your essay rather than write in cursive?

Thank you

You can write him with any problem you’re having trouble with and he’ll help you out. You can email curtis@passged.com, or comment at his blog. But here’s some good posts to look at:

For fractions, this link’ll show you all his fraction posts:
http://www.passged.com/student_blogs/curtis/category/fractions/
Another thing to keep in mind is, if fractions give you trouble, try changing them to decimals to work with, to see if that helps! I’d much rather use decimals than fractions any time!

For the word problems (story problems), this link will show you all his posts:

http://www.passged.com/student_blogs/curtis/category/word-problems/

Lots of people have trouble with these! The big thing that helps me out, is to really think of what multiplication and division mean. Multiplication means you’ve got a bunch of copies of something. So, 8 times 7 means having eight 7’s, like if you made 8 copies of a 7-sheet report. It’s like 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 … 7 eight times. So, when something repeats, like 12 car payments of $250, that’s multiplication. It’s repeating the $250 12 times. Yikes! And division, you’re dividing something big up. Like a pizza cut into 8 slices is the pizza DIVIDED by 8. So, when you’ve got to cut something up into equal pieces, you divide… like if you’re going 120 miles and get 30 miles a gallon, how much gas do you use? You’ve got to “cut up” the 120 miles into 30-mile pieces. How many 30 mile pieces do you get (each one uses a gallon of gas)? You divide 120 by 30, to get 4… 4 gallons. I’m pretty sure Curtis will explain it better!

Don’t feel overwhelmed. You can do this. It’s only one test to go!!!

Second, the answer is yes! You can request special accommodations for illnesses or learning disabilities, including extra time or frequent breaks. You can find out more information here: http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ged/test/Take/Accommodations_Disab.htm

The best thing to do is call your local test center. Find out about spreading the test out over several days and about making accommodations for your son. You can find your local test center here: http://www.passged.com/test_state.php

Plus, I wanted to say, there’s a LOT you can do on your own. You’ll actually learn more trying to figure things out for yourself, actively, than you do sometimes with a teacher. The problem is being motivated to sit down and figure it all out. I know it’s hard! But do give it a try. And then send me your results, and we’ll get some work on it together. Let me know what you think of your essay, too… that will help your self-evaluation skills (which you’ll need during the GED essay test!)

I’ve passed your math question on to Curtis.

I need help with writing an eassay, but don’t know where to go or who to ask to help check my work so I can get it right. I haven’t even wrote one, because I feel it don’t matter, there’s nobody to check it anyway.

I’m pretty good in math except when it comes to word problems any advice?