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GED Language Arts: Reading
The Language Arts, Reading Test contains 40 multiple-choice questions that measure your ability to comprehend and interpret workplace and academic reading selections and to apply those interpretations to new contexts. The questions ask you to understand, apply, analyze, and synthesize information that you are given in the reading selections. Practice the Language Arts Reading section with the Free GED Practice Test.
Literary texts constitute 75% of each test and include at least one selection from each of the following areas:
- Poetry
- Drama
- Prose fiction before 1920
- Prose fiction between 1920 and 1960
- Prose fiction after 1960
Nonfiction texts constitute 25% of each test and include two selections of nonfiction prose from any two of the following areas:
- Nonfiction prose
- Critical review of visual and performing arts
- Workplace and community documents (such as mission and goal statements, rules for employee behavior, legal documents, and communications)
The reading selections in the Language Arts, Reading Test range from 200 to 400 words, with poetry running from 8 to 25 lines. A purpose question appears in bold before each selection; the question is designed solely to help you focus and provide a purpose for reading the text. You are not asked to answer the purpose question. Each selection is followed by four to eight questions.
See the sample Free GED Practice Test in Language Arts, Reading.
