From America's leading education publisher, the struggling student's guide to GED success Nearly one million Americans plan to take the GED each year, but many are deficient in the most basic skills and not yet ready for GED courses and study guides. "McGraw-Hill's Pre-GED "offers a comprehensive foundation on which to build the necessary skills for more vigorous study and eventual success. This edition covers the five subject areas-- writing, reading, social studies, science, and math--guiding students in such matters as topic sentences, punctuation, sequence, inference, decimals, and ratios. Fully updated, it also introduces students to subject matter added to the test in 2002, including world history, space study, business documents, and number grids. With easy-tofollow instructions, "McGraw-Hill's Pre- GED "provides: Diagnostic pretests identifying strengths and weaknesses Hundreds of exercises with answer key Full explanations of answers provided Posttests with correlations to other McGraw-Hill GED books