Skills checklist
GED Math Skills Checklist: Every Skill on the Test, in One List
Wondering what you actually need to know? It’s all here: 101 skills, grouped the way your official score report groups them. Tap any skill to practice it. The ones marked “no calc” are worth being able to do by hand.
Quantitative problem solving with rational numbers
25% of the testNumber sense and operations
- Absolute value and distance on a number lineno calc
Q.1.d · multiple choice
- Adding and subtracting signed numbersno calc
Q.2.a · multiple choice
- Converting units within a measurement system
Q.3.c · multiple choice
- Evaluating expressions with integersno calc
A.1.b · fill in
- Least common multiple and greatest common factor
Q.1.b · fill in
- Order of operationsno calc
Q.2.e · multiple choice
- Rounding and estimating
Q.2.a · multiple choice
- Sign rules for signed numbers
Q.2.a · drop-down
Fractions, decimals and percents
- Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominatorsno calc
Q.2.a · multiple choice
- Comparing fractions, decimals and percentsno calc
Q.1.c · drag and drop
- Compound interest
Q.3.d · fill in
- Converting among fractions, decimals and percentsno calc
Q.1.c · drop-down
- Finding a percent of a numberno calc
Q.3.c · multiple choice
- Finding the original price before a discount or markup
Q.3.c · multiple choice
- Finding what percent one number is of another
Q.3.c · fill in
- Multiplying and dividing fractions and mixed numbersno calc
Q.2.a · multiple choice
- Percent increase and decrease
Q.2.a · multiple choice
- Percent increase and percent decrease
Q.2.a · drop-down
- Sales tax and tip on a bill
Q.3.c · multiple choice
- Simple interest with I = Prt
Q.3.d · multiple choice
Ratios, rates and proportions
- Comparing unit prices to find the better buy
Q.3.a · multiple choice
- Distance, rate and time with d = rt
Q.3.d · fill in
- Scale drawings, maps and models
Q.3.b · multiple choice
- Scaling a recipe up or downno calc
Q.3.b · drag and drop
- Solving a proportion for a missing valueno calc
Q.3.a · multiple choice
- Unit ratesno calc
Q.3.a · fill in
Exponents, roots and scientific notation
- Comparing numbers in scientific notation
Q.2.e · drag and drop
- Converting between standard and scientific notationno calc
Q.2.e · multiple choice
- Cubes and cube roots
Q.2.c · fill in
- Product, quotient and power rules for exponentsno calc
Q.1.c · multiple choice
- Simplifying and evaluating powers
Q.1.c · drop-down
- Squares and square roots in context
Q.2.b · multiple choice
Quantitative problem solving in measurement
20% of the testGeometry and measurement
- Area and circumference of a circle
Q.4.b · multiple choice
- Area of a composite figure
Q.4.d · multiple choice
- Area of a parallelogram
Q.4.c · fill in
- Area of a rectangle or squareno calc
Q.4.a · multiple choice
- Area of a trapezoid
Q.4.c · fill in
- Area of a triangle
Q.4.a · multiple choice
- Finding a cylinder's height from its volume
Q.5.b · drop-down
- Perimeter in context
Q.4.a · fill in
- Pythagorean theorem
Q.5.a · multiple choice
- Pythagorean theorem in context
Q.4.e · multiple choice
- Scale drawings and actual measurements
Q.3.b · fill in
- Surface area of a cylinder
Q.5.b · multiple choice
- Surface area of a rectangular prism
Q.5.a · multiple choice
- Volume of a cone
Q.5.d · multiple choice
- Volume of a cylinder
Q.5.c · multiple choice
- Volume of a rectangular prism
Q.5.a · multiple choice
- Volume of a sphere
Q.5.e · multiple choice
- Volumes of a prism, a pyramid and a cone
Q.5.d · drag and drop
Data, statistics and probability
- Comparing categories on a bar graphno calc
Q.6.a · multiple choice
- Comparing the center and spread of two data sets
Q.7.a · multiple choice
- Counting outcomes with the multiplication principleno calc
Q.8.a · drop-down
- Finding a missing value from a required mean
Q.7.a · fill in
- Mean of a data set
Q.7.a · fill in
- Mean of a data set shown in a table
Q.7.a · multiple choice
- Median of a data set with an even number of values
Q.7.a · multiple choice
- Mode and range from a dot plotno calc
Q.7.a · drop-down
- Probability of a single event and comparing likelihoodsno calc
Q.8.b · drag and drop
- Probability of the complement of an eventno calc
Q.8.b · fill in
- Probability of two dependent events (no replacement)no calc
Q.8.b · multiple choice
- Probability of two independent eventsno calc
Q.8.b · multiple choice
- Reading a circle graph given as percents
Q.6.a · multiple choice
- Reading counts from a dot plotno calc
Q.6.b · multiple choice
- Totals and differences from a two-column table
Q.6.c · fill in
- Weighted average
Q.7.a · multiple choice
Algebraic problem solving with expressions and equations
30% of the testExpressions and polynomials
- Adding and subtracting polynomialsno calc
A.1.d · multiple choice
- Combining like termsno calc
A.1.a · multiple choice
- Evaluating an expression for given valuesno calc
A.1.b · fill in
- Factoring a quadratic trinomialno calc
A.1.f · multiple choice
- Factoring out the greatest common factorno calc
A.1.f · drop-down
- Multiplying two binomialsno calc
A.1.d · multiple choice
- Writing an expression from a descriptionno calc
A.1.c · multiple choice
Equations and inequalities
- Modeling a situation with a quadratic and solving it
A.4.b · multiple choice
- Rearranging a formula to isolate a variableno calc
A.2.a · drop-down
- Solving a linear inequalityno calc
A.3.a · multiple choice
- Solving a quadratic equation by factoringno calc
A.4.a · multiple choice
- Solving a system of two linear equationsno calc
A.2.d · multiple choice
- Solving equations with fractions or decimalsno calc
A.2.a · fill in
- Solving equations with the variable on both sidesno calc
A.2.a · drag and drop
- Solving one-step equationsno calc
A.2.a · fill in
- Solving two-step equationsno calc
A.2.a · drop-down
- Writing and solving an equation from a situation
A.2.b · fill in
Algebraic problem solving with graphs and functions
25% of the testFunctions and graphing
- Comparing linear functions in different forms
A.7.d · multiple choice
- Deciding whether a table is linearno calc
A.5.b · multiple choice
- Evaluating functions in function notationno calc
A.7.c · multiple choice
- Finding intercepts from an equationno calc
A.5.e · multiple choice
- Identifying a point on a lineno calc
A.5.d · multiple choice
- Interpreting slope and intercept in contextno calc
A.5.e · drop-down
- Matching a graph to its equationno calc
A.5.d · multiple choice
- Plotting a point from an equationno calc
A.5.a · hot spot
- Plotting points on the coordinate planeno calc
A.5.d · hot spot
- Reading function values from a tableno calc
A.7.c · fill in
- Recognizing a function from a tableno calc
A.7.b · drop-down
- Slope from a graphno calc
A.5.b · multiple choice
- Slope from a table of valuesno calc
A.5.b · fill in
- Slope from two points
A.5.a · multiple choice
- Solving a system of equations by graphingno calc
A.2.d · hot spot
- Unit rate as the slope of a proportional relationship
A.5.c · fill in
- Writing a linear equation from a descriptionno calc
A.6.a · multiple choice
- Writing the equation of a line through two pointsno calc
A.6.b · multiple choice