Quizzes, exams, and flashcards about Mathematical Reasoning: GED and HiSET maths — the arithmetic of ordinary life.
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The subject candidates most often have to sit twice, and the one where a formula sheet is provided — which tells you where the marks actually are.
On the GED it is Mathematical Reasoning, 115 minutes in two parts, with a 3-minute break between them. A formula sheet and a calculator reference sheet are provided; an on-screen calculator is available on the second part, and at a test centre you may use your own approved TI-30XS.
On the HiSET it is Mathematics, 90 minutes of multiple choice, with a calculator permitted.
The GED lists four areas: basic maths, geometry, basic algebra, and graphs and functions. In practice that means:
The question formats include more than multiple choice on the GED: drag and drop, fill in the blank, select an area on the screen, and drop-down menus inside a sentence. The mathematics is the same; what changes is that some answers cannot be guessed from a list.
Ten questions across those areas, weighted towards number and algebra because that is where the paper is weighted. Every situation is invented, every number is checkable without a calculator, and each explanation gives the arithmetic step by step rather than asserting the answer.
The distractors are the errors, named: the wrong base for a percentage, a rate multiplied where it should be divided, minutes treated as hours, the diameter used as the radius, a sign lost when distributing, one root dropped from a quadratic.
Currency is written in words throughout — "40 dollars", never with a sign — because a dollar sign is the delimiter for mathematics in this system and would silently italicise the sentence around it. There are no diagrams; every figure is described in words, and for questions built on a drawn shape or a graph, use the free practice tests both organisations publish.
