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Here’s another GED Practice Question for you! With the answer explained…

Here’s another GED reading practice question from the Study Guide Zone. Go look at the site to read the passage first if you want, or just look at my explanation of how to answer. Here’s the practice question…
3. Which word best describes the British attitude to the Second Continental Congress?
A: pleased
B: indifferent
C: [...]

Okay. I know everyone has trouble with different things in reading. And the whole point of this blog is to help you with your GED! So, if you have a question about reading on the GED, now is the time to ask… you can add a comment to this post, or you can e-mail me [...]

I started out talking about metaphors for the GED reading section last time… (Prospero Año Nuevo, by the way…) Anyway, it led me into poetry. I know, it’s the hardest thing, right? But the GED reading test’s gonna have poetry on it. And sometimes I like poetry, you know. It’s a matter of figuring out [...]

The GED means a lot of reading! You need to read passages about science and social science, plus the reading section. So it helps to be able to get the information you need fast. That’s where “skimming” and “scanning” come in. They’re both ways to get information when you’re reading.

Hola. I said I’d get back to you on how I used the SQ4R reading strategy to look at this article about the dust bowl: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/dustbowl.html
Here’s what I did….

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 [...]

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 [...]

I used to think that, to read something, you’d just read it. But I found out that to remember something you read, you have to do something to fix it in your mind, so you don’t forget. I figured this out after studying and studying and then not remembering anything I’d read.
Also, sometimes I’d read [...]

Well, I looked at that blackberry cobbler recipe at http://thepioneerwomancooks.com/2007/08/the_great_cobbl-2.html. I think it helped a lot to use the KWL reading strategy… that is, first think about what I Know, then think about what I Want to know, and then after reading, think about what I Learned. Did you look at that article? The recipe [...]