General Educational Development (or GED) tests are a group of five subject tests which, when passed, certify that the recipient has American high school  level academic skills.  The five tests that comprise the GED test battery are Language Arts:Writing, Social Studies, Science, Language Arts:Reading, and Mathematics. 

In Broward County, the only agency that administers the official GED test is Broward County Public Schools. The test is always taken in person and never available online.   
  
To pass the GED Tests and earn a GED credential, test takers must score higher than 60 percent of graduating high school seniors nationwide. The American Council on Education of the sole developer for the GED test.

One in every seven Americans with high school credentials received the GED, as well as one in 20 college students.