Preview Princeton Review GED Test Prep, 2021 Practice Tests + Review Techniques + Online Features (College Test Preparation) by The Princeton Review (2020)

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Editorial Rob Franek, Editor-in-Chief David Soto, Director of Content Development Stephen Koch, Student Survey Manager Deborah Weber, Director of Production Gabriel Berlin, Production Design Manager Selena Coppock, Managing Editor Aaron Riccio, Senior Editor Meave Shelton, Senior Editor Chris Chimera, Editor Eleanor Green, Editor Orion McBean, Editor Brian Saladino, Editor Patricia Murphy, Editorial Assistant Penguin Random House Publishing Team Tom Russell, VP, Publisher Alison Stoltzfus, Publishing Director Amanda Yee, Associate Managing Editor Ellen Reed, Production Manager Suzanne Lee, Designer The Princeton Review 110 East 42nd Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10017 E-mail: editorialsupport@review.com Copyright © 2020 by TPR Education IP Holdings, LLC All rights reserved Published in the United States by Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto Terms of Service: The Princeton Review Online Companion Tools (“Student Tools”) for retail books are available for only the two most recent editions of that book Student Tools may be activated only once per eligible book purchased for a total of 24 months of access Activation of Student Tools more than once per book is in direct violation of these Terms of Service and may result in discontinuation of access to Student Tools Services ISBN 9780525569398 Ebook ISBN 9780525569787 Permission has been granted to reprint portions of the following: The instructions to GED Ready®: The Official Practice Test Reproduced by permission of GED Testing Service “Killer Clothing Was All the Rage in the 19th Century,” Becky Little, National Geographic News Online, October 17, 2016 © 1996–2015 National Geographic Society © 2015–2016 National Geographic Partners, LLC All rights reserved Reproduced by permission of National Geographic Creative GED® and GED Ready® are registered trademarks of the American Council on Education (ACE) and administered exclusively by GED Testing Service LLC under license This product is not endorsed or approved by ACE or GED Testing Service The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University The material in this book is up-to-date at the time of publication However, changes may have been instituted by the testing body in the test after this book was published If there are any important late-breaking developments, changes, or corrections to the materials in this book, we will post that information online in the Student Tools Register your book and check your Student Tools to see if there are any updates posted there Editor: Meave Shelton Production Editors: Emma Parker and Kathy G Carter Production Artist: Kris Ogilvie Content Contributor: Amy Leggette Cover art by Sergei Chaiko / Alamy Stock Photo Cover design by Suzanne Lee a_prh_5.5.0_c0_r0 • • • • Acknowledgments The Princeton Review would like to thank Amy Leggette for her valuable contributions to the 2021 edition of this book Many thanks also to the following Princeton Review content experts for their contributions to previous editions: Joshua Nagel, David Stoll, Kimberly Beth Hollingsworth, Chris Chimera, Erik Kolb, Eliz Markowitz, Becky Robinson, Linda Kelley, Andy Olson, Katie Williams, Chris Hinkle, Kevin Kelly, Gina Donegan, Alexandra Wax Henkoff, Lisa Mayo, and Graham Skelhorne-Gross Special thanks to Adam Robinson, who conceived of and perfected the Joe Bloggs approach to standardized tests, and many of the other successful techniques used by The Princeton Review Finally, our gratitude to the production team, Emma Parker, Kathy G Carter, and Kris Ogilvie, for their careful attention to every page Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgments Get More (Free) Content Part I: The GED® Test and You How to Use this Book to Achieve a Passing (or a CollegeReady) Score All About the GED® Test Question Formats The Habits of Effective Test Takers Part II: Reasoning Through Language Arts: Reading Reading Overview Informational Passages Literary Passages Part III: Reasoning Through Language Arts: Language Language Overview Language Questions Part IV: Reasoning Through Language Arts: Extended Response 10 Extended Response Overview 11 Extended Response Writing Part V: Mathematical Reasoning 12 Mathematical Reasoning Overview 13 Basic Arithmetic 14 Applied Arithmetic 15 Algebra 16 Geometry Part VI: Social Studies 17 Social Studies Overview 18 United States History 19 Civics and Government 20 Economics and Geography Part VII: Science 21 Science Overview 22 Life Science 23 Physical and Earth Sciences Part VIII: Answer Key to Drills Part IX: Practice Tests 24 Practice Test 25 Practice Test 1: Answers and Explanations 26 Practice Test 27 Practice Test 2: Answers and Explanations Go to PrincetonReview.com/prep and enter the following ISBN for your book: 9780525569787 Answer a few simple questions to set up an exclusive Princeton Review account (If you already have one, you can just log in.) 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Contact TPRStudentTech@review.com and provide: your full name email address used to register the book full book title and ISBN Operating system (Mac/PC) and browser (Firefox, Safari, etc.) Once you’ve registered, you can… Supplement your GED® test prep with multiple-choice drills organized by subject (350+ questions total) Get extra math practice with targeted drills for the toughest topics Access insider tips on the GED® test and college success Download bonus tutorials on reading comprehension and understanding graphics Print custom answer sheets for the full-length practice tests in this book Check to see if there have been any corrections or updates to this edition Get our take on any recent or pending updates to the GED® test Because you’ll be taking this test on a computer, you will encounter several types of questions that may be unfamiliar to you In addition to traditional multiple-choice questions, there are enhanced question formats that will require you to use the mouse to perform actions other than clicking the correct bubble In the following chapters, we’ll give you clear guidance on how to approach these question formats as they apply to each of the four subjects In this chapter, we’ll familiarize you with the look and feel of each type of question and show you how to answer it Online Practice Drills Register your book to gain free access to 350 multiple-choice questions in all GED® test subjects, via your Student Tools See this page for details Multiple Choice You can expect to see this question format on each of the four tests Multiple-choice questions typically present you with a scenario and ask a question about it There is one possible answer out of the four choices provided In order to indicate your answer, use your mouse to click the bubble that corresponds to your answer Here is an example Drag and Drop Drag-and-drop questions ask you to choose from several options and drag each option to the correct location in the question Not only must you choose the correct options, but you must also make sure to place them in the order requested This question format appears in each of the four tests Your computer screen will look similar to the following set of images Note that in order to see the complete question, you will need to click on the tab marked “page 2.” Hot Spot Hot-spot questions appear in the Social Studies, Science, and Mathematical Reasoning tests These questions present you with information and pose a question In order to indicate your answer, use your mouse to click on one or several points in a chart or graph that represent possible answers While this type of question may seem unusual at first, it’s really just a variation on multiple choice When you have determined the answer, simply mouse over the area for the right answer and click If you would like to erase a mark, click on it a second time Make sure to read the question carefully to be sure you know the number of solutions the test is asking for If it asks for two values and you click on only one, it could hurt your score Here is an example Fill in the Blank Fill-in-the-blank questions are among the more difficult types of questions, and they appear in each of the four tests These questions give you a set of information and ask a question There are no answers provided, and you have to type in your own answer using your keyboard Because there are no answers to choose from, these questions are nearly impossible to guess on Test takers must take care to enter their answer using the correct units and rounded to the correct place When faced with this type of question, always reread the question to be sure you are correctly following the directions in drafting your answer Here is an example Drop Down A drop-down question is most similar to a traditional multiple-choice question It can appear on any of the four tests and is often used to place an answer in the context of a sentence Use your mouse to click the arrow to the right of the box, and several answers appear in an expanded menu To select an answer, click on your choice Because of their similarity to multiple-choice questions, drop-down questions should feel somewhat familiar However, it is important to remember to open the box and see the options before you try the question Doing so can greatly reduce the amount of time you spend on the question, as it reduces the number of options to consider Here is an example Extended Response We will show you an example of an Extended Response question, along with more information about it, in Chapter 10 Please note that while the test does offer some basic word-processing functions (such as cut and paste), the test does not contain many of the options test takers are used to in a word-processing program Also, the test does not indicate when you have made a possible spelling or grammar mistake, and it does not have an autocorrect feature to fix common typos Because many test takers are accustomed to using more advanced word-processing programs (such as Microsoft Word), it is important to save some time to proofread your work for typos as well as spelling or grammar mistakes As mentioned earlier, please take some time to get comfortable with these question formats Check out the GED Testing Service’s free sample test at https://ged.com/study/free_online_ged_test for some hands-on practice Next, we’ll discuss how to use the format of the GED® test to your advantage Chapter The Habits of Effective Test Takers In this chapter, we’ll show you how to boost your score with key skills designed to maximize your performance Taking a standardized test involves more than knowledge You need to approach the test with strategy and learned skills Effective test takers adopt certain habits that help to reduce stress and increase points Answer the Easy Questions First Depending on your specific skill set and your level of comfort with the range of difficulty on the test, some questions will be easier for you than others It’s important to remember that within each section, all of the questions (besides Extended Response) are worth approximately an equal number of points, which means that getting a difficult question wrong is not going to cost you more than missing an easy question You also have the freedom to answer the questions in any order you like So, to maximize your score, first answer all of the questions with which you are comfortable, and come back to the more challenging problems later If you are running out of time, it is best to have already completed all of the “easy” problems so you can spend your remaining minutes guessing on the difficult ones It may feel more natural to the problems in the order they are presented However, you want to be able to see all of the questions in a section and know that you have worked through all of the questions you could in the time allotted With efficient use of the flag button and review screen, discussed below, skipping questions that you consider more difficult is the best use of your time Remember: Skip early and skip often Use a Note Board to Stay on Task As we discussed in Chapter 2, you will not be provided with traditional scratch paper but with three erasable note boards and a dry-erase marker Although you will not be able to save your work and go back to it later, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t think about how to use your note boards strategically Keeping your hand moving while you focus on the physical task of writing is an essential way to stay focused on the test itself If your brain has to communicate with your hand, then it is engaged and active and less likely to be distracted, which can force you to reread a question multiple times In addition to keeping your brain focused and on task, writing can help you to stay on target with the techniques presented in this book Having something to write down, such as a summary of a reading passage or a math formula, may be just the push your brain needs to get it moving in the right direction Using scratch paper, develop a note-board habit for each type of question, and stick to it! Use the Flag Button and Review Screen to Get Unstuck It is inevitable that at some point during the test, you will encounter a question that you don’t understand, or one that you think you understand…but the answer you want isn’t an option Often, the problem is that you have misread the question or made a small calculation error Research shows that once you have misread a question, you are likely to keep reading it in the same way, no matter how many times you try Meanwhile the clock is ticking, and you aren’t getting any closer to an answer If you get stuck, the best thing to is to flag the problem for review, and move on Distracting your brain by doing other problems is often just what you need in order to come back and read the problem with fresh eyes At the end of the section, you will be able to use the review screen to quickly jump to any questions you have marked Once you go back to them, you will have a better understanding of how much time you have left to deal with your marked questions Then you can decide whether to sit down and work the problem or to simply put in a guess Pacing Many wrong answers are the result of simply going too fast and reading too quickly However, most test takers feel they have to rush through the “easy” problems because they won’t have time on the more difficult ones Try a few questions untimed, and you will make fewer mistakes You’ll also probably work more quickly than you think The questions don’t get harder when you add a timer, but somehow, test takers tend not to score as highly The trick is to take the GED® test at an even pace, recognizing when a question is more difficult and should be marked for later Work for accuracy, because doing all the problems will not get you a higher score unless you them correctly Slow down and make sure that you are (a) choosing to the questions you understand first and (b) giving them enough time, attention, and focus to answer them correctly If you run into a question that feels like a brick wall, flag it and move on to an easier question The only exception to this rule is in the last few minutes of any section This is the time to use your review screen and marked questions to ensure that you have guessed on all the questions for which that option was available Guessing and Process of Elimination The GED® test does not penalize you for an incorrect answer; there is never any deduction for getting a question wrong So regardless of whether you know the answer to any given problem, it is to your advantage to record an answer to every problem Thus, guessing on problems that you don’t know how to solve, or that you don’t have time to work through, can actually add points to your score Eliminate the Out-of-Scope Answers Q: What’s the capital of Malawi? A Paris B Dukhan C London D Lilongwe Turn the page for the answer Pick a “Guess Letter” If you had a one-in-four chance to win $10 (and entering didn’t cost you anything), you would enter, right? The multiple-choice and dropdown questions on the GED® test are very much like that $10 chance On any single multiple-choice question, your chance of correctly guessing is 25 percent, and on drop-down questions that chance can increase depending on the number of answer choices available If you randomly guess a different answer for each question, those odds probably won’t add up to as many points as you had hoped However, if you choose the same answer for every multiple-choice question on which you randomly guess, you are likely to get one in four of the answers correct Those are pretty good odds, and simply choosing a consistent “guess letter” for drop-down and multiple-choice questions can improve your score But what if you could increase your odds even more? Process of Elimination (POE) Try the following question: In what year did Texas become a state? You don’t know? The good news is that the GED® test would never ask such a question Or rather, if it did, you would be given a reading passage in which the answer could be found The purpose of this example question is to show what you can if you have a few extra seconds to add to your guessing If this were a fill-in-the-blank question, and you did not have time to read the passage, you would have to guess, but the likelihood of your getting it correct would be very small However, using a small amount of information to guess could help you if the question was multiple choice or drop down Now, consider the same question in multiplechoice format In what year did Texas become a state? A 100 B.C B 25 A.D C 1836 D 1990 Test-Taking Tip #1 Use POE to get rid of out-of-scope answers Now the question looks a little easier, right? You know Texas became a state sometime between the 1700s and today That eliminates (A) and (B) You are also pretty sure that it happened well before 1990, so eliminate (D) too You didn’t know the exact answer, but you did know enough to eliminate wrong answers You probably won’t be able to narrow down the answer choices to a single one on very many questions, but you may be able to eliminate two answers, which leaves you with a fifty-fifty chance of getting the correct answer Remember, every choice you eliminate increases your chances of guessing the correct answer Try one more There are 10 students in a class, and their average score on a test is 79 out of 100 If a new student is added to the class, what is the minimum score he would need to achieve in order to bring the class average up to 80 out of 100? A B 79 C 85 D 90 This problem may seem fairly complex to figure out Don’t worry if you don’t know how to averages; we will teach you all you need to know in the Mathematical Reasoning chapters However, you can understand that if a student’s score has to bring up the class average, it would have to be higher than the class average to begin with With this information you could eliminate (A) and (B), and you would have a fifty-fifty chance of guessing the correct number, which is (D) Test-Taking Tip #2 If you haven’t figured out an answer in a minute, skip the problem and come back to it later Let It Go No one question is that important to your score If you read a question and aren’t immediately sure how to answer it, flag it and move on Do not spend any time beating yourself up for not knowing how to the problem, as everyone is likely to find at least some questions they don’t know how to If a problem is taking too much time to figure out, fill in a guess and move on Keeping track of how many questions you think you got correct, or getting upset because you think you aren’t doing well, can only impact your score negatively Know that you have made the right decision for your overall score at every stage, and move forward to deal with the next question with confidence Focus on Your Strengths Sometimes the questions on this test may seem complex and unusual, especially if you have been away from school for a long period of time It is important to recognize the strengths that you bring to this test; they can help you to achieve the score you are looking for Implement the six habits to take control of your testing experience To this foundation, add the preparation and practice from the rest of this book By focusing on your strengths, you can maintain the proper perspective The GED® test is only that—a test It doesn’t measure your worth as a human being It measures how effectively you have acquired a few skills and how you make use of that knowledge in a timed, stressful situation Use the test’s own limitations to your advantage, and with a little hard work, you can earn your GED® test credential Eliminate the Out-of-Scope Answers A: The capital of Malawi is Lilongwe, but you didn’t need to know that to eliminate choices (A) and (C) Return to this page for the question ... 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