Donation to Help Fund GED Testing

GED exam fees may be less burdensome for some students due to a donation from the Bartow County Employer Committee/HR Council, according to a press release.

The $1,000 gift, which was presented at the committee’s June business meeting, will be used specifically to offset exam fees for students in need.

“This money couldn’t have come at a better time,” said the college's Executive Director of Adult Education Jon Collins. “The $95 fee for the exams increased July 1 to $160.”

The new price structure applies to all current tests and coincides with the nationwide implementation of a computer-based GED test.

The Technical College System of Georgia Office of Adult Education is currently piloting the computer-based test at two technical college locations, and plans to implement it at all GED testing centers statewide by year end. 

It's the first price increase for the GED test in five years, when the previous cost for each of the five test components rose from $13 to the current $19 (or $95 for the full test battery).

The new price factors in the cost of the development, implementation, delivery and use of the test, including the computer-based version.

All of the other essential adult education programs, including Adult Basic Education, GED test preparation classes, college and career advisement and English as a Second Language classes, remain available free of charge to any Georgian. 

Last year, almost 80,000 Georgians took advantage of easy access to those programs.