GED Language Arts Practice Test 1

What this GED RLA practice test covers

The questions mirror the three skill areas on the official Reasoning Through Language Arts test. Reading comprehension makes up around 60 percent, grammar and usage around 25 percent, and writing and organization fills the remainder. That weighting follows the GED Testing Service blueprint.

Reading questions attach to a passage and ask about main idea, supporting detail, inference, author's purpose, or tone. Grammar questions present a sentence or short paragraph with an underlined portion and ask for the correct revision. Writing questions test transitions, sentence order, and argument structure.

How the score maps to the GED scale

Your raw percentage converts to the 100-200 reporting scale. A 145 passes. A 165 earns the College Ready designation, and 175 or higher can earn up to three college credits in English.

The official RLA test also includes a 45-minute Extended Response essay that is scored separately and folded into the total. This practice set does not include the essay, so treat the score here as a measure of your multiple-choice readiness.

Always return to the passage on GED reading questions

On every reading question, the correct answer is defensible with a specific line of text. If you cannot point to that line, you are guessing from impression. The most common wrong answer on the GED is a statement that is reasonable and true in the world but not stated or implied in the passage.

For inference questions, the answer is one small step beyond the text — not two. If your reasoning requires an assumption the passage never supplies, it is the wrong choice.

The grammar rules that appear most often on GED RLA

Five grammar rules account for the majority of language convention questions: subject-verb agreement, pronoun-antecedent agreement, comma splices and run-ons, misplaced modifiers, and parallel structure. If you can reliably spot those five errors, you will get most grammar questions right.

When two answer choices look equally correct, read each one back into the full sentence. The wrong choice almost always creates a new error somewhere else in the sentence that is easy to miss if you read only the underlined portion.

Pacing on the GED RLA test

The official test gives 150 minutes for about 46 items plus the essay. Excluding the 45-minute essay block, that leaves roughly 105 minutes for 46 questions, or a little over two minutes each. Passage-based questions take longer than standalone grammar items, so move quickly through the grammar questions and save the time for close reading.