GED Reasoning Through Language Arts Practice Test

The GED Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA) test evaluates your reading comprehension, writing skills, and ability to analyze and use language effectively. This practice test contains 30 questions that reflect the content and format of the actual GED RLA examination.

GED RLA Test Content Areas

The Reasoning Through Language Arts section covers:

• Reading Comprehension (60-75%): Understanding main ideas, supporting details, inferences, author's purpose, and text analysis
• Language and Writing (25-40%): Grammar, usage, mechanics, sentence structure, and text revision

Reading Text Types

• Literary Texts (75%): Fiction, poetry, drama, and prose written before 1900, from 1900-1945, and after 1945
• Informational Texts (25%): Workplace documents, community and historical documents, and nonfiction related to science and social studies

You'll have 150 minutes to complete the test, which includes 46 multiple-choice questions and one essay. The test is administered in three sections with breaks between them.

Skills Tested on GED RLA

• Reading for meaning and making inferences
• Identifying main ideas and supporting details
• Analyzing author's purpose and point of view
• Understanding text structure and organization
• Evaluating arguments and evidence
• Using context clues to determine word meanings
• Grammar, usage, and mechanics
• Sentence structure and clarity

Tips for GED RLA Success

• Read actively and take notes on key information
• Practice identifying main ideas and supporting details
• Look for context clues when encountering unfamiliar words
• Pay attention to text structure and organization
• Practice grammar and usage rules
• Read a variety of texts to improve comprehension skills
• Time management is crucial - don't spend too long on any single question