GED RLA study guide
GED RLA · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The GED Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA) test is one of the four subject exams that make up the GED test, which GED Testing Service describes as the path to a high school equivalency diploma accepted by nearly all colleges and employers. It is designed for adults who left high school without a diploma and want a credential for college, training, or work, and you do not have to take all four subjects at once - you can space them out and go at your own pace. RLA assesses reading comprehension and clear writing, including grammar. You read excerpts from informational and literary sources, show understanding, draw conclusions, and write clearly. Topics on this exam: Reading for Meaning, Identifying and Creating Arguments, and Grammar and Language. The GED RLA study guide has 3 sections and about 1,309 words.
01Reading for Meaning
The Reading for Meaning domain covers literary and informational passages. Questions ask you to identify central ideas and themes, locate supporting details, make inferences, analyze author's purpose and tone, examine text structure, and compare two texts on related ideas. Most answers are defensible only from the passage, not from general knowledge. Topic, main idea, theme.
452 words, about 2 min02Identifying and Creating Arguments
This domain tests two connected skills. You analyze arguments in reading passages, and you write your own argument in the GED RLA Extended Response. The essay is 45 minutes within the 150-minute RLA test. You read two short passages on the same issue, decide which argument is stronger, and support your judgment with evidence from both passages.
426 words, about 2 min03Grammar and Language
Grammar and Language tests standard English conventions in context. You edit sentences and short passages by choosing the revision that is grammatically correct, clear, and concise. Question types include sentence boundaries, agreement, pronoun reference, verb tense, punctuation, modifiers, parallelism, capitalization, and word choice. The best answer must fix the error without changing the writer's meaning.
431 words, about 2 min