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Are you getting ready for the GED? Taking an adult education course? Whether you’re attending local classes, taking online GED classes or managing a self-study program at home, you’ll want to ensure that your study time is effective.

Make a Note! Here’s one surefire study tip that has proven successful for adults working toward the General Educational Development credential, the diploma awarded for passing the GED Test.

Take Notes

For many GED students and adult learners, taking notes seems boring or tedious, or they can’t see the relevance of taking notes. Perhaps they have an abundance of GED study materials from various sources including the GED online classes and they don’t feel a need to add more to the pile. And for some GED students, taking notes is new … they’re reluctant to take notes because they’ve never done it, never learned the skill or never found it necessary while taking GED classes online.

Taking notes is easy—it just starts as a practice and soon becomes a skill. Taking notes is highly effective and ensures learning when it’s a three-part process. And, taking notes is a critical way to shift new information that’s learned from the brain’s short-term memory bank to the brain’s knowledge vault, weather you are taking online GED classes or managing self-study program.

Initially, many people feel like they’re copying or jotting material just for the sake of it. It’s difficult for them to see how taking notes helps them learn. It may seem like a mindless activity. Still, it’s important—just write down information as you move through material on your own, or during GED classes. The act of taking notes engages you with the study material beyond just hearing information, reading or seeing it.

Just as note-taking improves with practice, so does learning. As notes are taken more frequently and regularly, students begin to recognize key information and main points more easily and more often. Note-taking becomes more logical since the act of taking notes engages the logical processing of the brain. When the logical brain becomes engaged, the learning process is activated and information is better retained.

In the next article, I’ll have more study tips for your GED.

Leonard Williams

The GED Academy

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An innovative new GED preparation software program brings GED students to life in a virtual classroom. Maria Ramirez, a Latino single mother, makes connections with learners’ real-life experiences and problems.

The GED Academy is part of a new breed of educational software. Through their innovative passGED study program, The GED Academy brings a virtual classroom to life on students’ computer screens—a classroom peopled with fellow students who struggle with real-life problems. “Maria Ramirez is a virtual student at The GED Academy,” says Michael Ormsby, the Academy’s president. “Her story shows how easily young people’s lives can be side-tracked by personal issues. But she’s back on track now.”

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An innovative new GED preparation software program brings GED students to life in a virtual classroom. Dwayne Stone, a twenty-something who delivers pizza for a living, makes connections with learners’ real-life experiences and problems.

The GED Academy is part of a new breed of educational software. Through their innovative passGED study program, The GED Academy brings a virtual classroom to life on students’ computer screens—a classroom peopled with fellow students who struggle with real-life problems. “Dwayne Stone is one of our most memorable virtual students,” says Michael Ormsby, the Academy’s president. “He is the class clown—and every classroom needs one. He’s also our go-to guy for pop culture—movies, music, things students enjoy. But underneath his wacky joking, Dwayne has some substance. He wants to make everyone else happy—and struggles with his own low self-esteem.”

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An innovative new GED preparation software program brings GED students to life in a virtual classroom. Curtis Jackson, an African-American with a checkered past, makes connections with learners’ real-life experiences and problems.

The GED Academy is part of a new breed of educational software. Through their innovative passGED study program, The GED Academy brings a virtual classroom to life on students’ computer screens–a classroom peopled with fellow students who struggle with real-life problems.

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The GED Academy unveils an innovative, online GED practice test to reach the millions of American adults without a high school diploma…over 30 million. The GED Academy strives to utilize technology to help undereducated adults who need to learn how to learn.

The GED Academy has unveiled an innovative version of the GED practice test. “The problem is,” says Michael Ormsby, president of The GED Academy, specialists in GED preparation, “that many potential GED candidates never learned how to learn. They struggle with traditional classroom environments and test-taking materials.” GED practice tests are an example. Traditional pen-and-paper tests require hand-scoring, and GED candidates often aren’t skilled enough to evaluate their own performance. “It requires a lot of support,” says Ormsby, “and community programs aren’t well funded.”

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The number of adult Americans who never finished high school is staggering: about 39 million Americans, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. In today’s marketplace, what is the outlook for these Americans?

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The GED test is a high school equivalency exam. But what does that mean? How can a test be the equivalent of high school? And what is it, exactly, that we expect high school graduates to know?

Over 39 million disenfranchised American adults have no high school diploma, and so the doors to higher education and better job opportunities are closed to them. As a group, these Americans make about $350,000 less in their lifetimes than high school graduates or people with GEDs. Instead of moving the economy and their lives forward, Americans without high school degrees. The most widely accepted option for adults without a high school degree is a GED—a high school equivalency exam. What is this examination? What is the GED really testing? Can it truly be the equivalent of high school?

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39 million American adults never earned a high school diploma, a fact that holds them back from higher-paying jobs and higher education. Earning a GED is a solution, but many undereducated adults lack test-taking skills.

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Over 39 million Americans lack a high school diploma or GED, and without that accomplishment, better jobs and higher education aren’t available. The GED is an important options for people who want to better their situations. But they are left with the question: Can I pass?

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As the demand for educated workers grows, employers find themselves in a dilemma. 39 million American adults never earned a high school diploma, limiting the pool of qualified workers. One innovative solution is a GED training program in the workplace, and employers find that assisting workers to earn a GED provides significant rewards.

The GED high school equivalency test is growing in importance in the workplace. Around 30 million American adults rank “Below Basic” in prose literacy, the lowest literacy ranking, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL).

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