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G.E.D. Testing Center

Mary Grimes G.E.D. Testing Center

1745 Hutton Dr.
(Located at the NW corner of Standridge Stadium)
Carrollton, TX, 75006
(972) 968-5675

Chief Examiner: Tencha Silva-Weyand  
silvaweyandh@cfbisd.edu    
           
Examiner: Sharon Luke
lukes@cfbisd.edu

Requirements:

  1. $85 Money Order
  2. Social Security Card
  3. One valid form of identification from the list below:
    • Texas Driver’s License
    • Passport
    • Military Identification Card or other Federal Government-issued Identification
    • Texas Department of Public Safety Photo Identification Card
    • Post secondary identification that includes name, date of birth, photograph, Texas address and signature

All identification must be current and show name, date of birth, photograph, Texas address, and signature.

17 Year Old Test Applicants:

An official TEA Parent/Guardian Consent Form and Administration Withdrawal Form is required for a 17-year-old candidate to test.

Click here to obtain the forms.

File Folder:
Official TEA Forms (1)


IMPORTRANT INFORMATION
New forms of the GED Tests are expected January 1, 2012.  The scores on your test report cannot be combined with the 2012 series of the GED Tests.  By December 31, 2011 you must have earned a total passing score of at least 2250 (450 average) with no score less than 410, or you will need to take the entire 2012 series.

Registration/Orientation:

  • Registration/Orientation is usually on Mondays. When Monday is a holiday, registration is held on Tuesday.
    Please check the calendar.
  • Registration/Orientation is conducted as a group with the first 20 persons to sign up registering at 8:30 a.m.  Registration for the remaining slots is at 10:00 a.m.
  • Registration/Orientation will take between 1.5 - 2 hours.

Test Schedule:

  • The first day after registration:
    • 8:30 a.m. - Mathmatics
    • 11:00 a.m. - Language Arts, Writing
  • The second day after registration
    • 8:30 a.m. - Science
    • 10:15 a.m. - Social Studies
    • 12:05 p.m. - Reading

Spanish Testing
The GED Test is periodically administered in Spanish.  The registration/orientation and the test schedule are the same as those for the English test.  Please check the calendar for the scheduled Spanish test dates.

Retesting:

  • There is a $20 fee for re-testing.
  • There is a 6 month waiting period prior to re-testing unless the person has been attending GED preparation classes and brings a signed letter from the authorized teacher stating that the person is prepared to test.
  • No one may test more than 3 times in one year.

Re-scheduling:

  • There a $20 fee for re-scheduling.
  • Re-registration is required to re-schedule a test.

You may speed up the registration process by downloading the registration forms, and bringing the completed forms to registration. You may also complete and submit the Online Demographic Form prior to registration. To do so, you must first create a University of Texas Electronic ID "UT EID." These instructions are provided at: http://www.utexas.edu/cee/dec/services/instrct.pdf .

Once you have created your UT EID, you may complete and submit your Online Demographic form by going to the Online Demographic Form Home Page web address: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/ecweb/ged/demo/index.WBX .

File Folders:
Registration Forms (3)
G.E.D. Testing Schedule (2)


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