GED Stands for General Educational Development. GED is an American degree/certificate which is similar to H.S.C or A-Level. Students completed GED can get education from universities at home and abroad as they can after accomplishing H.S.C or A-Level.

Effectiveness of GED

GED is effective both for regular and irregular students. Irregular students can move on for higher education by GED. If students had to face any break after SSC or O-Level, they can carry on their studies after completing GED. Regular students can sit for GED to save 2 years of time because GED need only 4/5 months.

Requirements

Original requirement for GED is that anyone whose age is 16 can sit for GED whatever his or her educational background is. But in our country, GED applicants must be passed from SSC or O-Level. So, it takes for the students to be in the age of 17. But it is not necessary for foreign educational institutions.

Subjects

The subjects of GED are:

•  Social Studies •  Science

•  Literature & Arts •  Mathematics

•  Writing Skill (Part 1 & 2)

Marking and arranging GED

GED test involves 500 marks; sometime it can be varied.

•  PART I : Writing Skills & Interpreting Literature & Arts

Number of questions: 90 questions + A typed essay = 91 questions

Time : 185 minutes (3 hours and 5 minutes)

•  PART II : Social Studies Science & Mathematics

Number of questions: 170 (Multiple choice items)

Time : 270 minutes (4.5 hours)

( Total test time: 7 hours and 35 minutes)

•  INDIVIDUAL TEST TIMES

Writing Skills, Part I & II (50 questions + a typed essay), 120 minutes

Social Studies (60 questions), 85 minutes

Science (60 questions), 95 minutes

Interpreting Literature and the Arts (40 questions), 65 minutes

Mathematics (50 questions), 90 minutes

( Total test time: 7 hours and 35 minutes)

•  THE GED PRACTICE TEST

(142 questions + An essay), 4.5 hour

GED Exam. Fees: $375 (80 × 375) = 30000 Taka

Test Center: American Alumni Association Test Center: House # 145, Road # 13/B,

Banani, Dhaka–1213, Phone: 88-02-9881669

Registration Point: Varsity Admission.com, BSRS Bhaban, Level 9 (west), 12 Kawranbazar, Dhaka–1215, Phone: 9140577