New, tougher GED has students racing to finish before January
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Administrators at the adult education center are concerned that the GED overhaul will make it harder for many test takers to complete the exam.
If you're working on your GED, you better hurry.
That's because the GED Testing Service is changing its test to bring it more in line with job preparedness.
The new General Educational Development tests will be administered starting on January 2, 2014. People who want to take the current version of the test have a little more than five months to finish. Anyone caught in the middle of the process when the deadline passes will have to begin all over again.
The deadline has led to high demand for the test, according to the Contra Costa Times.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is offering increased testing ahead of the deadline. but they won't take the new test. Officials said starting next year, they'll instead opt to use a different high school equivalency exam developed by 27 states.
Until now, the GED has been the equivalent of a high school diploma. The outgoing