Pass the Arlington GED on your schedule, from Rosslyn to Shirlington.
Arlington has no GED test center of its own, but two sit within six miles — Falls Church and Alexandria — and Virginia lets you test online from home for the same $144. Careful with the closest pin on the map: the DC site issues a District credential, not a Virginia one.
The fast facts for taking the GED in Virginia — verify on official sources before your test date.
Virginia GED Certificate
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Facts verified May 31, 2026
Official GED test sites listed by GED Testing Service for the Arlington metro. Verify hours and seat availability on ged.com before you go.
Local context for prep — testing capacity, college access, statewide pricing, and the always-available online option.
The Career Technology Center in Falls Church. Alexandria City Public Schools is about 5 miles, and tests Mondays and Thursdays.
$36 a subject, the same at a test center or online from home.
At 16 or 17 only if you are homeschooled, with VDOE documentation.
Per subject, out of 200. Miss one and you retake only that subject.
Same prep, same teachers, wherever you are. What changes is how the program meets the realities of studying in Arlington.
Lessons run 6 to 9 minutes, which is about one stop short of Rosslyn on the Orange Line. They fit a commute, a lunch break, or the quiet half hour after the kids go down. Nothing here needs you in a classroom on a weeknight.
Arlington graduates move into Northern Virginia Community College certificate tracks, transfer routes toward George Mason and Marymount, and the employers hiring across the county — Arlington Public Schools, Virginia Hospital Center, the contractors around Crystal City and the growing employer base at National Landing. Arlington also runs its own free adult education program if you want a classroom alongside the practice.
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.
Fee subsidies and free-testing programs. Confirm eligibility and current funding on the official source before you rely on one.
Free test voucher
Learners who enroll in adult education, attend the required hours, and pass GED Ready can earn free GED test vouchers.
The GED is run by GED Testing Service — a joint venture of Pearson and the American Council on Education — not a government agency. Fee and prep assistance is administered state by state, so it varies and you should confirm what your state offers — though much of the underlying adult-education funding is federal (WIOA Title II). Eligibility and funding change; always check the official source before relying on one.
Same program, same teachers, different metro. Pick another city or head back to the Virginia hub for the statewide overview.
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Not inside Arlington County — there is no GED test center here. The two nearest are the Career Technology Center at 6269 Leesburg Pike, Suite 106 in Falls Church, about three and a half miles west, and Alexandria City Public Schools Adult Learning Center at 1340 Braddock Place, 7th Floor, about five miles south. Alexandria tests Mondays and Thursdays, starting promptly at 2:30 PM with check-in by 2:15, and does not take same-day registrations. Book everything through your GED.com account.
You can, but read this first. The DC test center on 4th Street NW is about four miles from Arlington and will look like the obvious choice on a map. The catch is the rule GED Testing Service applies everywhere: the credential is issued by the state where you pass your final subject. Finish in the District and you hold a District of Columbia credential rather than a Virginia one. That is fine if you meant to, and a genuine problem if you did not. Stay on the Virginia side unless you have a reason not to.
All four subjects cost $144, which is $36 each, and testing online from home costs exactly the same. Retakes are where the two routes differ, and in-person is the better deal: no waiting period for your first two attempts at a subject, then a 60-day wait after a third. Online you get one retake before that same 60-day wait. If a subject feels borderline, sitting it at a test center buys you more room to recover.
Eight weeks of steady study, then either a short drive to Falls Church or no drive at all. Start with the free diagnostic and we will tell you which subjects are ready before you book.
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Center listings refreshed quarterly. The official source is GED Testing Service.
Yes, and with no center in the county it is worth taking seriously rather than treating as the fallback. It costs the same $36 a subject, $144 for all four, so you are not paying a premium to skip the drive to Falls Church or Alexandria. You need a passing score on the official GED Ready practice test first, plus a webcam, a steady connection and a room nobody walks into. Testing online from an Arlington address keeps your credential Virginian, which crossing into DC would not.
Eighteen, and Virginia's under-18 route is narrower than most states. You can test at 16 or 17 only if you are homeschooled, and you must provide the Specialist for High School Equivalency in VDOE's Office of Adult Education and Literacy with documentation signed by your superintendent or their designee. There is no parental-consent or emancipation route the way there is in Oregon. If you are 16 or 17 and not homeschooled, the honest answer is that you will be waiting.
A GED Certificate. Virginia does not call it a diploma, which occasionally worries people filling in job applications — it should not. It is the state's high school equivalency credential, and colleges and employers treat it as one. The passing standard is the same everywhere: 145 out of 200 on each of the four subjects, scored against the same blueprint whether you tested in Virginia or anywhere else.
Yes. Northern Virginia Community College, George Mason University, Marymount University and Virginia Tech all treat the Virginia GED Certificate as equivalent to a high school diploma for admission, as does every other public institution in the state. NOVA is the usual first stop — health sciences, IT, cybersecurity and skilled-trades certificates all open up once you hold the credential, and NOVA has a guaranteed-admission agreement that carries its credits onward to George Mason.
