Quizzes, exams, and flashcards about Language arts — reading and writing: GED and HiSET language arts — reading text with tables and charts, GED and HiSET…
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The subject both exams weight most heavily, and the only one where either of them asks you to write something.
On the GED this is one test, Reasoning Through Language Arts, 150 minutes in three sections, with 45 of those minutes set aside for an extended-response essay. On the HiSET it is two separate subtests: Language Arts — Reading, 65 minutes of multiple choice, and Language Arts — Writing, 120 minutes of multiple choice plus an essay, where the essay carries its own pass requirement of at least 2 out of 6.
Either way there are two distinct things being tested, and they need different practice.
Passages are a mix of informational and literary text, and the questions are about the passage rather than about the world. What is the main idea. What does a specific detail establish. What can be inferred — and, just as often, what cannot. Which sentence supports a stated claim. What a word means where it stands, which on both exams is usually an ordinary word in a sense you would not pick first.
Two question types recur and are worth naming because they trip people up. Argument questions ask you to separate a claim from the evidence offered for it, and to say whether the evidence actually supports it. Two-passage questions give you sources that disagree and ask what each holds, or where exactly they part company.
This is editing, and it is the most learnable part of either exam because the rules are finite: sentence boundaries, subject-verb agreement across a long phrase, verb tense, pronoun agreement and clear reference, modifiers attached to the right thing, parallel structure in a list, and punctuation inside a sentence. Correct these on paper often enough and they stop being decisions.
Fourteen materials across both halves. Reading: informational and workplace texts (central idea, supporting detail, purpose, audience, fact and opinion, inference, conflicting notices), a full article read as a whole, text with tables and charts, claims and faulty reasoning, two texts on one topic, America's founding texts, short literary scenes (motivation, point of view, mood, figurative language, conflict, theme), longer fiction, poems and scenes from a play, and a mixed set that includes separating a claim from its evidence. Writing: grammar, usage and punctuation in faulty sentences, in two sets, organizing a paragraph (topic sentence, relevance, order, transitions, combining and cutting sentences), and the two-argument essay. Each material has a quiz, flashcards, short written answers and an oral practice exam.
Some editing questions quote the revised sentences in full; others describe the repair in words. Either way, the rule being tested is the one the exams test.
The essay itself cannot be written here. One set prepares for it — what each prompt asks, a thesis that fits, strong and weak evidence, dealing fairly with the other side — but the essay is a scored component of the GED language arts test and a separate pass requirement on the HiSET. Write one to time, twice at least, and read it against the published scoring criteria — that is the only practice that counts for it.
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