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Earning a GED at Home

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Summary: Earning a GED at home requires using computer programs and textbooks as study materials, and signing up to take the exam. Get a graduate equivalency diploma at home with advice from a homeschool specialist in this free video on homeschooling.

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By Linda Wooldridge
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Linda Wooldridge has been homeschooling since 1998. She's also been on the PPEA (Pinellas Parent Educators Association) board for three years as the orientation coordinator for...read more

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"Hi, I'm Linda Wooldridge and I'm a home school mom. Sometimes I get asked, What is earning a GED at home? Well let's start with what is a GED. Simply put, the GED is a graduate equivalency diploma. It's not the same thing as graduating from high school, but it does say that you have mastered high school level work. And you can use that in place of a high school diploma, for the military, for jobs, sometimes even for colleges or career schools. So if you decide that taking the GED is for you, then what you would want to do is to look in to study programs. Many schools offer them, but since we're talking about taking them at home, you would be more interested in finding books or computer programs that would enable you to study the material at home. After all, if we're covering everything you've learned from K through twelve, there's a lot of material to go over. When you feel that you've mastered that material, then you would be ready to sign up for and take your GED. Usually that is done at a traditional school setting. But you might be able to find another opportunity. In any event what you want to look at is making sure that you have properly studied and signing up for and taking that GED test. And once you've done that you've got your graduate equivalency diploma and you're ready to face the world as a high school graduate. Good luck with that GED. I'm Linda Wooldridge and I'm a home schooling mom."

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