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Saturday, May 22, 2004

Seven Ways to Pass the GED

Ashamed that you never received your high school diploma? You should be failure. Luckily, you can take the GED an exam that, should you pass, grants you the equivalency of a high school diploma. Recalling the horrible memory of that 200 on your SATs already? That's why The People's Perception is here to help you pass the Communist Way™.

It was the beginning of another lovely spring morning, filling even the most corrupted of souls with bright optimism. Beautiful sunlight filtered through the leaves into the living room enlightening a majestic glow, nothing seemed far from reach...except passing that GED.

Fail high school? Received a low GPA? No college would accept you? There’s nothing to worry about! Just take the GED (General Educational Development Testing Service) and you’re all set to go.

Did you know that those who obtain scores high enough to earn a GED credential outperform at least 40 percent of today’s high school seniors? Were you ever aware of the fact that more than 95 percent of U.S. employers consider GED graduates the same as traditional high school graduates concerning hiring, salary, and opportunity for advancement? This mean, that should I pass the GED, I too can get a job at the supermarket…well, only 95 percent of the supermarkets.

If you do decide to take the GED here are seven great tips to help you pass, follow them and soon, you too will be on your way to a brighter future.

Study, this seems somewhat obvious, but it’s natural for people to doze off. So here’s the plan, hire a guy to hold a loaded pistol to your head, if you close your eyes he shoots you, the noise is guaranteed to wake you up.

Take out your old tests from your high school days and review them. What the hell, bring them along into the test hall, this way you will know that you failed the GED not because you were nervous, but because you were stupid.

Bring along a lucky item, charms usually brings confidence to its holder, however, since they obviously didn’t help you in high school just cut the crap and follow step one.

Take a few extra dollars with you, often, when your score is just below a pass it becomes necessary to bribe the instructor, if you look hard enough you’re bound to find $10 lying somewhere from that cashier job…oh wait, no you won’t that job requires a high school diploma!

Try to relax, remember it’s no big deal if you fail, by now you should be used to it.
If you don’t know an answer on a test, skip over it and do the easy problems first, actually, for you that would probably mean skipping over the entire test.
As a final resort, if you are unsure of the answer, just guess, keep in mind that the scantron machine is not as dumb as you are and will fail you once it realizes you decided to fill in every hole.

Still worried that you’ll be the only moron taking the test? Surprise! More than 860,000 adults worldwide take the GED Tests each year, which means that I’m better than 860,000 people…that makes me feel so good about myself.


The next step for GED graduates.

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