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Language Arts, Reading Test
The GED Language Arts, Reading Test contains 40 multiple-choice questions
to be answered in 65 minutes. The test measures your ability to comprehend and
interpret workplace and academic reading selections and to apply those
interpretations in new contexts. The questions ask you to understand, apply,
analyze, and synthesize information that you are given in the reading
selections.
Literary texts constitute 75% of each test and include at least one selection
from each of the following areas:
- Poetry
- Drama
- Prose fiction before 1920
- Prose fiction between 1920 and 1960
- Prose fiction after 1960
The remaining 25% consists of nonfiction texts of two selections of nonfiction
prose from any two of the following areas:
- Nonfiction prose
- Critical review of visual and performing arts
- Workplace and community documents, such as mission and goal statements, rules
for employee behavior, legal documents, and communications such as, letters and
excerpts from manuals
The reading selections range from 200 to 400 words. Poetry selections contain
from 8 to 25 lines. A purpose question appears in bold before each selection.
You are not asked to answer the purpose question. It is to help you focus and
shows you what you should be thinking about as you read the text. Each text
selection is followed by four to eight questions that you are supposed to
answer.
GED Sample Test Questions for the Language Arts, Reading Test:
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