This document provides tips and resources to help students prepare for the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT). It offers the following advice: read carefully, guess intelligently, and spend time wisely. It also lists tutorial sessions, mandatory test prep periods, and online resources focused on each test subject area to aid studying. These include sites like Khan Academy, Brightstorm, and sciencegeek.net.

1. Georgia High School Graduation Test
Steps to Success
-Morgan A.
Tips to prepare for the GHSGT
 Read everything carefully. Many of the GHSGT  Guess intelligently. There is no penalty for
questions involve reading poems and selected guessing on any GHSGT. If you are not certain of
passages from short stories, novels, biographies, the correct answer, then reread the material. If
essays, newspapers, magazines, and other you are still uncertain, make your best guess.
sources. Some questions include sentences and Guessing is easier if you can eliminate one or
paragraphs to analyze, correct, or revise. You more distractors as clearly incorrect. Be warned,
should read all parts of each test item very however, that many of the distractors are very
carefully, including directions, passages, attractive
questions, and all four answer choices.
 Spend test time wisely. Many tests are arranged
 Remember that there are no trick questions. so that the easier items are first and the harder
The questions are not designed to be tricky. If items are last. The GHSGT are not arranged in
you read the entire question, including all this way. Therefore, it is possible to find several
accompanying material, and think carefully difficult questions followed by a set of easier
about what the question is asking, the meaning questions later. If you come to a few hard
should be clear. Also, remember that each questions, do not get discouraged. It would be
question has only one answer that content better to move on, answer as many questions as
experts agree is the correct answer. However, possible, and then go back to answer the
you may be looking for the best answer among remaining questions
the choices. If so, the word best will be
emphasized. Sometimes questions ask you for
the choice that is not correct among the
options. Always notice words such as not,
except, or but in the question. These words tell
you to look for a choice that does not answer or
complete the item stem correctly. For example,
you might be asked, ―Which sentence is not a
complete sentence?‖ You should look for the
sentence that is incomplete; three of the choices
will be complete sentences.
 Consider every choice. From the four answer
choices, you must choose the one that best
answers the question. Some of the alternative
choices will be attractive because they include
an irrelevant detail, a common misconception,
or the correct information applied in the wrong
way.

2. Tech High Online Resources (login required, subscription paid by
Tech High):
Studyisland.com
USAtestprep.com
To prepare our students
for GHSGT we are Math:
Khanacademy.org
offering: Brightstorm.com
Daily tutorial sessions during Social Studies:
advisory: Ms. Dozier’s GHSGT Test Page
Monday—English
Tuesday—Math This site covers all five domains that are included in the Social Studies
Wednesday—Social Studies portion of the GHSGT. Included in the site are PowerPoint presentations
dealing with US History, World History, Civics, and Geography. Also
Thursday—Science included are games and practice assessments that will help students
prepare. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Mandatory 7th Period: wdozier@techhighschool.org
Tuesday---Math Science:
Wednesday—Social Studies
Presentations- http://www.sciencegeek.net/Biology/Powerpoints.shtml
Thursday—Math These are presentations that highlight important biological information by
subject.
Saturday GGT Prep Videos- http://www.bozemanscience.com/science-videos/ These videos
Sessions 10a.m. –12p.m. are about 10 minutes in length and discuss a number of important
biological topics; there are also chemistry and AP videos, so make sure to
February—25th look at the description and concentrate on areas you or your child are
weak in.
March ---3rd Games - http://www.biologyjunction.com/biology_games.htm These
March –10th games are divided by topic and are simple ways to practice biological
March 17th information.
Resources:
English:
GGT English Student Guide
American Book Company
Resource Book (ABC) This guide contains sample questions from each domain of the English
Online Resources Georgia High School Graduation Test. The questions also include
detailed explanations of the answers to each question. This is an excellent
place to start reviewing for the English GGT.
GGT English Content Descriptions
There are three different domains included on the English Graduation
Test. The domains are Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, and
Conventions. This link will provide detailed explanations of each of the
domains and illustrate how the standards of English are incorporated into
the test within the three domains.