GED Facts

Did you know these facts?

• The General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service develops and distributes the GED Tests.
• More than 860,000 adults worldwide take the GED Tests each year.
• Those who obtain scores high enough to earn a GED credential outperform at least 40 percent of today’s high school seniors.
• GED graduates include: comedian Bill Cosby, actor Christian Slater, Delaware’s Governor Ruth Ann Minner, and U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado.
• One out of every seven high school diplomas issued each year in the United States is based on passing the GED Tests.
• More than 95 percent of U.S. employers consider GED graduates the same as traditional high school graduates in regard to hiring, salary, and opportunity for advancement.

  Reprinted from www.gedtest.org/

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