⚠️ ONLINE PROCTORED (OP) GED TEST NOTIFICATION UPDATE: 7-26-2021īeginning September 1st, 2021, there will be an Online Proctored (OP) GED Test option, which means that you will have the option to take your GED test remotely. Online testing requirements and availability are different depending on where you live. Now, you can do everything online: learn from online classes, practice using online quizzes, and take the official test online. So, can you get a GED online? Before the summer of 2020, the answer was no, but the GED testing service developed an online test as a response to the COVID19 pandemic, and testing became available online. “That makes a big difference over the course of a lifetime,” Newton said.Today, almost everything is available online: banking, shopping, school. But by getting their GED, they can earn, on average, about $9,700 a year more than those without one. Newton mentioned that nearly 14 percent of Jessamine County adults don’t have their high school degrees, one of the highest percentages in the state. “Right now, the GED test is available for free for first-time test takers,” instead of charging the usual $120 per test, Newton said. In an effort to make the GED course and test accessible to everyone, if a student doesn’t have a computer at home, Adult Ed can lend them a laptop. Testing at the school will be on Tuesdays and Fridays. Newton said Jessamine County Adult Education has been doing almost exclusively online learning during the pandemic but beginning March 15, it will have a full set of classes, and there will be both in-person and virtual options. “I never thought I would get mine, so to show people that it’s possible is an empowering thing.” “It’s nice to inspire people, to have somebody look at what you did and want to do it too,” she said. But he will.”Ĭoyle said she was surprised by how many people asked how she did it when she got her GED, and who told her they want to get theirs. “He was excited, but I don’t think he really understands. “I told him, ‘When you get out of school, I’m going to take you to Mommy’s school and let you meet her teachers,’” she said. Then she met the guy who is Conner’s father a couple of years later and they’re still together.Ĭonner goes to Jessamine Early Learning Village, which is right next to the Adult Education Center on Wilmore Road, and will be starting kindergarten in the fall. She got married when she was 18 to a “loser,” she said, and was divorced in three years. She was going to have to change high schools, but she didn’t want to go to the new school and they wouldn’t let her continue at her old one, so she gave up. She wants to go to college and become a nurse, she said, but she’ll probably begin as a caretaker.Ĭoyle said she dropped out of school after her mom kicked her out of the house as a teenager and went to stay with her dad. Her father died last year, she said, and that experience caused her to want to help people who are “going through that.” What she wants to do, she said, is care for terminally ill patients. “I know that with an education, that opens a lot of doors for me so I’ll be able to do what I want to do in life and be successful.” “I really didn’t see myself getting it, so it’s a big accomplishment for me,” Coyle said. Likewise, any notes must be taken on a digital notepad app. She can have a calculator, but it has to be the one on her computer so it can be monitored. She can have a glass of water, but it has to be in a clear glass, she said. The test takes about seven and a half hours, and the student gets a 10-minute bathroom break. If she does it too often, they shut it down. The student has to take photographs of her desk and all the walls, and if she looks away from the camera, she gets a warning. “There’s somebody watching you through a camera on your computer while you’re taking the test to make sure you’re not cheating.” “I had to get it done before he was up, because you can’t have any distractions,” she said. The test can be taken at any time of the day, and she took it at 5 in the morning when Conner was asleep. She said Hayden Cain, the distance learning coordinator and instructor for Adult Ed, helped her with the online math course.
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