Essay Writing Practice

I am doing practice of essay writing for General Educational Development (GED) tests so can you please tell me the directions and the tips to write essay?

[Shaleen]

General Educational Development (GED) tests are a group of four subject tests which, when passed, provide certification that the test taker has American or Canadian high school-level academic skills.

GED Essay directions & tips-

To give yourself some experience with the testing situation, find a quiet place that you can write for 45 minutes. Read the directions, then randomly choose a topic.

Do not look through the topics before you choose.

This will help you with the testing situation because you are assigned a topic at the test; there is no choice.

45 minute Plan for Success

Read directions and topic: 3 minutes

Prewriting (free writing, brainstorming, clustering or mapping, etc.): 5 minutes

Organize (write a thesis statement or controlling idea and outline main ideas): 3 minutes

Draft (write the essay): 20 minutes

Revise (read through the essay and make changes to ideas): 8 minutes

Edit (check for correctness in grammar and spelling): 6 minutes

You must write on the assigned topic ONLY.

*Mark the letter of your assigned topic in the appropriate space on your answer sheet booklet.

Be certain that all other requested information is properly recorded in your answer sheer booklet.

Their evaluation will be based on the following features:

Well-focused main points

Clear organization

Specific development of your ideas

Control of sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, word choice and spelling

Write your essay on the lined pages of the separate answer sheet booklet. Only the writing on these pages will be scored.