End of an educational era as the final GED tests are written on P.E.I. [Video]

Wednesday marked one of the last days people on P.E.I. had to write their GED test, as the province and rest of Canada adopt a new high school equivalency exam.

Karen Ford-Doyle, an academic advisor in adult education at Holland College, says the school pushed to get as many students as possible to take the test before the changeover happens.

“We really reached out,” Ford-Doyle said. “We contacted students, we emailed students, we encouraged them to come in to just give it a try.”

The GED, or General Educational Development program, is for people who didn’t finish high school. It includes five subjects, and each can take hours of work. 

Schools in Canada offered it for decades, but the test was developed in the United States and includes a lot of American subject matter — which is part of what motivated the change.

Wednesday was on of the the last …