On January 20, 2016, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution carried a story about the possibility that the GED Testing Service would retroactively lower the cut score for passage of its revised GED. That same day, EdWeek picked up the story, and on January 26, 2016, GED Testing Service confirmed that the GED cut score would indeed be retroactively lowered from 150 to 145 but that states would be left to decide to follow such advice:

GED Testing Service …recommends that states apply retroactively the 145 passing score to test-takers who have tested since January 1, 2014. When read more >>>

Source : HuffingtonPost.Com