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Here’s the quote from one of the James Bond books that I started reading (Thunderball by Ian Fleming):

One of the things that seems real hard for me on the GED is that they always have long words that I don’t know. Since I grew up speaking Spanish, maybe my English vocabulary isn’t that good. That’s okay. I needed to figure out ways to deal with a strange word. If you’re just reading [...]

Since I’ve been looking into reading, I’ve found lots of kinds of reading strategies to help you understand and remember. Good reading strategies don’t just help you read on the GED test… they also help you study! Here’s a great reading strategy for GED preparation, called SQ4R.

You know, sometimes I struggle with reading things… that makes it hard to do a lot of the GED test readings! I try to understand each word I don’t know, and then I get lost in the little details. Then the questions on the GED test ask what the main idea was, and what the [...]