GED Test Schedule

General Educational Development (GED) Test Schedule

GED Certificate Search (click here)

General Information:

Test Fee:  $80.00 payable to San Jacinto College in cash, check, money order, or major credit card when registering.  Please note: Registration at times as noted above – takes 45 – 60 minutes. 

  • Once a test has been taken, or, if no test is taken within 12 months after registration date, no refund of test fees is available.
  • Do not bring children, cellular phones, pagers, food, or drinks into the testing center. 
  • Special accommodations can be made for persons with disabilities, please contact the testing center well in advance of test date.

Retest Fee:  $10.00 per test.  Register before testing according to the above schedule.  Provide a tutoring letter if it has been less than six (6) months since the failed test was completed. Please note: A $15.00 certificate fee will be charged in addition to $10.00 retest fee if you change testing centers.

Updating Records:   Files must be updated during the designated registration period.  Testing is available on a first-come first-served basis.  All test materials are provided. 

Requirements for Persons 18 years of age or older must:

  1. Demonstrate proof of residence in Texas.
  2. Possess a current valid government issued ID with photograph, address and signature, such as Texas Driver’s License, DPS ID Card with photo, military ID, or passport. SCHOOL ID IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. 
  3. Bring a Social Security card or document that shows the Social Security number.
  4. Be officially withdrawn from school.

    Persons 17 years of age must:

  5. Meet requirements in numbers 1-4 above AND
  6. Provide official withdrawal document from school.   To Download Withdrawl/Permission form click here
  7. Parent must appear in person with valid picture ID.

    Persons 16 years of age must:

  8. Meet requirements in numbers 1-4 above AND
  9. Provide a legal document (original Court Order with seal) from court giving authority to test, letter from probation officer, or from Texas Youth Commission. 

The GED test battery consists of five separate tests, which cover the five main areas of high school study:

Language Arts - Writing

50 questions from information documents or passages, business communication, and   “how-to” texts on sentence structure, usage, mechanics and organization: 75 Minutes.

WRITTEN ESSAY on an assigned topic: 45 Minutes.  

Test time: 120 Minutes. 

Social Studies

50 questions on history, geography, civics, and government from articles, speeches, maps, graphs and textbooks. 

Test time: 70 Minutes

Science

50 questions on subjects in the biological and physical science with a focus on environmental and health. 

Test time: 80 Minutes

Language Arts - Reading

40 questions on content areas by type of text: literary (75%) and nonfiction (25%) as defined by time periods: pre-1920, 1920-1960, and 1960-present.  There is at least one compare/contrast question. 

Test time: 65 Minutes.

Mathematics

Part I, 25 questions, with calculator: Part II, 25 questions, with no calculator.  The test consists of algebra, geometry, number relations, and data analysis with increased emphasis on data analysis and statistics. 

Fifteen minutes is devoted to calculator instruction. 

Test time: 90 Minutes plus 15 minutes for video instructions.

IN ORDER TO EARN A CERTIFICATE OF HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY, A CANDIDATE MUST MAKE AN AVERAGE SCORE OF 450 ON ALL FIVE TESTS (2250 TOTAL) WITH NO SCORE LESS THAN 410.

Online GED Practice Tests---http://www.testprepreview.com/ged_practice.htm

Your test results will be sent to you from the Texas Education Agency in Austin in approximately four weeks after completing all tests.  All transcript requests can be accessed at their website at www.tea.state.tx.us/ged/certreq.html to receive a duplicate GED Certificate ($5.00 fee for this service), or http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ged/verify.html  to request a copy of your GED. Allow five working days for transcripts to reach their destination.  All schools, including San Jacinto College, request that official transcripts be sent directly from the issuing agency to the Admissions office.  It is your responsibility to ensure that this is done in a timely manner.  The testing center at San Jacinto College does not maintain these records and cannot honor transcript requests.