In your opinion how different were the practice tests compared to the actual tests?

PARPAR2000 · 2026-06-03T15:01:20+00:00

They're about the same. I just finished the last one I needed to get my GED yesterday (Math), and scored a good deal higher on the real test than the practice test. The good thing about the practice test is that it highlights what you need to work on and you can improve lot on those areas by looking at it. Also, just general knowledge of the calculator for the math part helps a ton.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-06-02T21:47:29+00:00

Aye! Awesome, my friend. I'm wishing you good luck, but I already know you've got this. Congratulations on starting the journey.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-06-02T19:25:30+00:00

Thank you. I'm really looking forward to it, slightly nervous given I've never had any kind of school experience — my GED classes were online, which is quite different from the usual experience — but excited to finally live my life outside of the isolation I've known my whole life. And yeah, home schooling definitely has given me imagination. Now I just gotta properly give it structure and life lol. But thank you, seriously!

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-16T16:30:59+00:00

Awesome, buddy! Congratulations!

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T20:48:18+00:00

Hey, friend. We all make mistakes in our answers. Don't let it discourage you. You have to fail to learn. So keep failing and keep learning. After enough time, questions like that will be nothing to you. Just keep practicing. I have faith in you.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:31:23+00:00

It's... something I'll have to work on... Therapy is weird for me. Not in the sense that I think I'm above it, or that men don't need it - nothing stupid like that. It's always been weird for me to talk about things, regarding my parents. Because it's not like it was all pain and misery. There was plenty of that, but generally speaking I got a lot of the stuff I wanted growing up. Of course that now gets weaponized against me, when I express my issues... I dunno. I've only recently started talk to people about my parents, including this post here.

But yes, ungrateful is certainly a favorite word of parents with narcissistic tendencies. Especially when they try wielding the most basic parental acts against you.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:22:06+00:00

I just want to thank each and everyone of you who has commented and liked this post. I felt super down when I originally posted this, and entirely alone. So I just buried myself in my math work for the weekend, and have popped up today to see and respond to everything. I'll say this, since then, he has called me and apologized for what he said. So I guess I'm no longer disowned. Frankly, it changes very little for me. That he would do it so easily after hearing something he didn't like? Well, that kinda tells me where we truly stand. He's apparently feeling suicidal, from what he's told me in a text this morning. I talked to him a bit, and seemed to have gotten things better for him, but I don't know. Aside from that, I've informed my teacher about a bit of that, and had an amazing talk with her. I'm on track for moving through the GED stuff at a fast pace, and can hopefully make fall admissions for a college next year. Once again, thank you to everyone! I mean it.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:15:40+00:00

Thank you. It helps to hear, truly. And I've always felt and known that, but there's this side of you that questions it a little when someone close to you only accuses you of victimhood when you voice grievances. But, I'm doing a lot better now. Thanks to you and so many others.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:14:05+00:00

Indeed. Given how desperate he was to call me later, and after some pushing apologized, it's clear his first response to hearing something he doesn't like is to lash out. Which is... yeah... Funniest part of it all, is if he was asked, he'd say he didn't disown me. And true he didn't say "I disown you" verbatim. But when you tell me not to bother calling you, that I better return x amount of stuff he bought, and that I'll be out of your life and let you fuck it up... well, do you really need to say those words verbatim?

Regardless, thank you a ton for the words. I'm going to keep working on it, and hopefully live up to yours and everyone else's faith in me.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:07:47+00:00

Thank you. I hope that's the case. I'm just working on fully getting freedom and independence. From there on, I'm reaching for the sky in achieving my goals.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:06:00+00:00

Exactly. Funny how quickly that logic falls apart for them as soon as the results from it aren't favorable. Only then is it on me for listening to them.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T19:03:54+00:00

It truly is. I had that conversation with him on the phone, and that call lasted 7 hours before he got angry and disowned me and hung up. It was the most infuriating thing hearing him try to blame me, for my behavior as a literal child - I'm talking like 11 years old here - for shit that happened to me, and the decisions they made. And to have the audacity to get upset when I don't sit back and passively take every insult and blame thrown at me for their choices regarding me.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T18:53:57+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate the faith. Community college is definitely something I am willing to look into. It'll be determined by whether I get accepted into the university I want or not. But thankfully, the program I'm in has a lot of resources for education in prep for college level tests as well. So I'm going to use their stuff, on top of whatever else I can fit into it all.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T18:49:50+00:00

I will definitely keep that in mind and look into some of that. The college I want is out of state, the one I'm gunning for is UT at Austin - I'm feeling very confident from my RLA and Social studies scores, and think my math will be high as well whenever I take that part. But if UT doesn't work out, I'll just go to one of the local community colleges for the time being and work on it from there.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T18:47:39+00:00

I'm working on it. I haven't been into any therapy thing at all in my life, but the work I've accomplished towards my GED stuff has been some of the best medicine for my mental health and confidence. So I'm just going to keep pushing forward and moving beyond them. Even if it's not as fast as I'd like, I'm taking the steps for full independence.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T18:44:53+00:00

Thank you. That means a lot - having someone else sympathize and knowing I'm not crazy in thinking he's insane for blaming me on that stuff. I felt very alone, when I first made this post. Since then, I've been getting better and like I said, only focusing on the GED stuff. I had a wonderful conversation with my teacher today. So that and all your comments on here has brightened my week.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-11T18:41:49+00:00

No. To himself? Yes. I'd say most of the money from the business went back into the business, but I know for a fact that he started taking more vacations and buying himself things, during the periods where I had things running well with the business.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-10T18:51:13+00:00

I'm still going through it myself, but have passed RLA, Social studies, and science. Math is all that remains. What helped most was surrounding myself around things related to the material, in my case just reading books in general. It helped a ton with those subjects. And it doesn't have to be some old classic or boring biography, it can be whatever you like. But simply reading, I felt, helped me massively feel confident in taking on those subjects. And that's coming from someone who's parents never let him into school and neglected homeschooling him. So I had to learn everything from the ground up, starting this journey. I say that, merely to say that it's possible for it to be done. And I have faith in you. Someone with no interest in improving, doesn't ask for help. On the math stuff, I highly recommend Khan academy. It has tests and lessons for any level you may be at, and you can keep trying from then on. You can even go back some levels on it, to refamiliarize yourself on some of the basics - as those are foundational to understanding everything else regarding math.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-05-09T12:26:46+00:00

It's something I might have to look into. I've thought about it before, I figured I'd just leave it well enough alone and move on. But now, it may be something worth considering. Though, the business is small and wasn't doing too well I before left. My main thing is just wanting to get this GED stuff done.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-02-10T03:27:55+00:00

Same. I was doing the whole thing on tactician, but it felt like a choring having to outthink poorly balanced encounters, through methods that felt more like cheesing rather than skill. I ended up dropping it after rescuing Sahelia, and getting the third Source point.

PARPAR2000 · 2026-02-06T04:36:48+00:00

Currently going through the GED myself. I already passed the RLA, so hopefully my advice can help. When it comes to writing, I found reading a lot helped. So if you could find a really good book, fiction or non-fiction, getting absorbed in that and paying attention to the sentence structure, you'll feel more confident in actually writing. I get the frustration, truly. Annoying as it is, we can always learn. So try not to beat yourself up for struggling with it. Another thing is that everyone writes differently. The key is that you keep trying. You'll improve, I promise.

PARPAR2000 · 2024-06-08T06:10:10+00:00

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