This report describes two studies, one comparing Florida students' performance to national norms on the General Educational Development (GED) tests, the other comparing performance on the GED tests and the Florida State Student Assessment Test, Part II (SSAT-II). In the first study, a representative sample of 1,200 high school seniors completed two of the battery of five tests of the GED in Spring 1984. Means and standard deviations for the five tests and intercorrelations among the five tests were calculated in order to compare the Florida data with the national data, which were based on a sample of about 700 high school students tested in the spring of 1980. The study found that Florida's seniors compare quite favorably. Mean scale scores were higher than the national norm on all tests and noticeably higher on the science and mathematics tests. Performance in the upper score ranges on the writing skills, social studies, science, and reading skills was slightly less than that of the national sample, but from the midpoint down, Florida's seniors outperformed the national group. In the second study, the names of the students who had taken the GED test samples were matched to those students who had also taken the SSAT-II; a 79 percent match was found. Correlations, although sketchy, showed that it is fairly safe to predict that students who cannot pass the SSAT-II have little chance of passing the GED tests and hence that the GED tests are more difficult and do not represent an "out" for students who cannot earn a diploma in regular high school classes. (KC)