Pass the Hilo GED on your schedule, from Keaukaha to Waiakea.
Hilo has its own GED site on West Kawili Street, which matters more here than on Oahu — Hawaii has no at-home testing option, and the next center is Kona, sixty miles across the island. All four modules cost $174.
The fast facts for taking the GED in Hawaii — verify on official sources before your test date.
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Facts verified June 7, 2026
Official GED test sites listed by GED Testing Service for the Hilo metro. Verify hours and seat availability on ged.com before you go.
Center listings refreshed quarterly. The official source is GED Testing Service.
Local context for prep — testing capacity, college access, statewide pricing, and the always-available online option.
The Hilo campus on West Kawili Street. The only other site on Hawaii Island is Kona, about 60 miles across the saddle.
$43.50 a module for all four, the same price at every site in the state.
Hawaii does not offer at-home online proctored testing. Every module is sat at a community school for adults.
Same prep, same teachers, wherever you are. What changes is how the program meets the realities of studying in Hilo.
A fixed evening class is a real ask when the alternative to studying at home is a drive round the volcano. Lessons run 6 to 9 minutes and work offline in your head — you only need the seat for the exam itself. Nothing expires if the weather closes in for a week.
Hilo graduates move into Hawaii Community College certificate tracks, transfer routes toward the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and the employers hiring across the east side — Hilo Medical Center, the county, the observatory support work on Mauna Kea, and the agriculture and tourism trades along the Hamakua coast.
Four credentialed teachers, one per subject, seven days a week. Median reply is under four hours. No ticket queue, no chatbot, no waiting until Monday.
Same program, same teachers, different metro. Pick another city or head back to the Hawaii hub for the statewide overview.
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The Waipahu Community School for Adults Hilo Campus, at 155 West Kawili Street, Room B102. The name looks wrong and is not — the Hawaii DOE runs ten Community Schools for Adults and the Hilo campus sits under the Waipahu school in the testing registry even though Waipahu is on Oahu. It is the right place. Book through your GED.com account rather than calling the campus.
No. Hawaii is one of a small number of states with no at-home online proctored option. GED Testing Service publishes an online price and an online retake policy for nearly every state; for Hawaii it publishes neither. That matters more on Hawaii Island than anywhere else in the state, because the only alternative to the Hilo campus is Kona, about sixty miles away. Your preparation can be entirely online — the exam cannot.
Hawaii charges $43.50 per module, so $174 for all four, and the price is the same at every site in the state. Retakes are more forgiving than the price suggests: there is no waiting period after a first failed attempt at a subject, and you only hit a 60-day wait after a third attempt at the same one. There is no limit on how many times you can test in a year.
Eighteen. A 16- or 17-year-old can test with approval under Form 4140, Exceptions to Compulsory Education, and GED Testing Service directs you to your high school counselor to start that. There is no residency requirement at any age, so you do not have to prove you live in Hawaii to test here.
Eight to fourteen weeks of steady study, then four appointments on West Kawili Street. Start with the free diagnostic and we will tell you which subjects are ready before you book any of them.
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16- and 17-year-olds test via Form 4140, Exceptions to Compulsory Education. No residency requirement at any age.
Yes. Hawaii Community College and the University of Hawaii at Hilo both treat the GED as equivalent to a high school diploma for admission, as does every other public institution in the state. Hawaii Community College is the usual first stop — nursing, culinary, diesel mechanics and administration of justice certificates all open up once you hold the credential, and its credits transfer straight into UH Hilo.
Most students who study consistently for 45 to 60 minutes a day are test-ready in 8 to 14 weeks. Your day-one diagnostic shows which of the four subjects actually need the hours, and the plan adapts from there. There is no minimum preparation time in Hawaii — you sit each module when you are ready, in any order, and passing scores are held until the set is complete.
