Sarah Fearnow, a GED instructor at PCC, said the new test — actually a set of four tests in different subject areas — will focus more on creative problem-solving and less on memorizing facts.

In this seven-week program, students will review the core academic concepts and strategies that will help them to successfully pass the GED sub-tests.

In this week's cover story, we tell you about how changes made to the GED (general equivalency diploma) test have resulted in a significant drop in the number of people who passed the exam in 2014 ...