General Educational Development Test

Lee/Ogle applicants must register with the Lee/Ogle Regional Office of Education located in Grand Detour, Illinois.

GED Release Form

Application Requirements

• Applicants who are 18 years of age or older, maintained residence in the State of Illinois for at least 30 days, and are not high school graduates, but whose high school class has graduated.
• A member of the Armed Forces of the United States on active duty, who is 17 years of age or older, and who is stationed in Illinois or is a legal resident of Illinois.
• A ward of the Department of Corrections who is 17 years of age or older, or an inmate confined in any branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary or in a county correctional facility who is 17 years of age or older.
• A female who is 17 years of age or older who is unable to attend school because she is either pregnant or the mother of one or more children.
• A male 17 years of age or older who is unable to attend school because he is the father of one or more children.
• A person who is 17 years of age or older who has been a dropout for a period of at least one year.
• A person who is successfully completing an alternative education program under Section 203.81 or Article 13A of The School Code of Illinois.
• A person who is enrolled in the youth education program sponsored by the Illinois National Guard.

Fee

• $35 application fee paid to the Regional Superintendent of Schools for the purpose of taking the GED tests, and issuance of the certificate upon successful completion of the GED Tests and Constitution examination.
• Each GED Test, with the exception of the Language Arts: Writing Test, requires a $5 retest fee. A $10 retest fee is required for the Language Arts: Writing Test.

What Are the GED Test Like?

With the exception of Part II of the Writing Skills Test, which requires an essay, all questions on the GED Test are multiple choice with five possible answers given. The questions range in difficulty from easy to hard, and cover a wide range of subjects. The content of the tests are as follows:

Language Arts: Writing - Part I
(50 questions, 75 minutes)
30% Sentence Structure

30% Usage
25% Mechanics 15% Organization

Language Arts: Writing - Part II (essay, 45 minutes)

Social Studies
(50 questions,70 minutes)
25% U.S. History
25% Civics & Government
20% Economics
15% Geography
15% World History

Science
(50 questions, 80 minutes)
45% Life Science
35% Physical Science
20% Earth & Space Science

Language Arts: Reading
(40 questions, 65 minutes)
75% Literary Text
25% Nonfiction Prose

Mathematics-Part I (Calculator)
(25 questions, 45 minutes)

Mathematics-Part II (No Calculator)
(25 questions, 45 minutes)
20-30% Number, Number Sense & Operations
20-30% Measurement & Geometry
20-30% Data, Statistics & Probability
20-30% Algebra, Functions, Patterns

An applicant shall make a standard score of 410 or above on each of the five tests and a total standard score of at least 2,250 on the entire battery (average score of 450 on all tests).

Constitution Examination

In addition to the five GED Tests, Illinois residents are required to satisfactorily pass an examination on American patriotism and the principles of representative government as enunciated in the American Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, as well as on the proper use and display of the American Flag as provided by Section 27-3 of The School Code of Illinois.

Reexamination

An applicant who fails to make the required scores on the GED Tests has the option of taking the entire battery or the individual test which was failed.

For additional information, please contact:

Call Sherry Marchek at 815/652-2054 Ext: 229