NET exam anxiety!!!

[luv4nursing]

Hi everyone, Im taking the NET on Monday and need help. I took it at a different school and passed, but I didnt get in for the next term(too many applicants) so I found another school that has one starting in the summer and Im almost in, except they want me to take the NET again for them on Monday (they wont take the scores from another institution and I dont know why because its a standardized test!). I have to get a 65 to get in. I took the practice tests in the NET study guide and am coming up at around an 85 average but Im still nervous about taking it again! Im afraid I will panic and blank out. The one I took before was on paper and this is the computerized one. I worry about that....on the computer can u change your answers once you answer them once? Also, can you go back to a question? My testing style is the type where if a problem is hard or taking to long I will move on and go back to it if there is time left, and on the reading I like to refer back to the material.

This is my best chance for starting nursing school anytime soon and I dont want to mess it up! The program starts in June and its part time which works out perfect because Im single and need to support myself while in school. They require a lot of other stuff to be accepted(physical &dental exam,2 references, mmr records, TB test, transcripts) which I have all ready to turn in as soon as I get the ok, which I will as long as I pass the test. They have only a few openings left, and if I dont pass Id have to wait 30 days to retest and it will probably fill up by then. Can someone please offer any suggestions to at least calm my nerves???????

[Kabin]

The computerized tests I've taken (not NET) have been fairly user friendly. They allow you change anything until you hit the final "submit" button.

I will be taking a NET test in a few months and was curious about NET study guides. Could you describe which guides you have used?

[BarbPick]

There are some steps to follow to prepare to take an exam, any exam. Buy a new net practice book, one you have not laid eyes on. Take the exams cold, no studying. See where your strengths and weaknesses are. Study the weak areas firsat and the last few days review the strengths.

Then play millionaire, look for the two wrong abswers first, elliminate them and work on the two that are left.

BTW, I took the lab tests for the mmr titres, I had all of the diseases except mumps. rats, have to have a shot anyway.

Barbara

[Love-A-Nurse]

just wanted to wish you all the best on your exam. relax and go get 'em!

[luv4nursing]

thanks for the tips, Barb...Actually this is the 1st time I bought the study guide(last time I took it without one, I only used a math GED book to brush up on fractions,etc.) and the guide cost $40 at a college bookstore. I got the NET sctudy guide by educational resources. It is the book Ive read most ppl on here used, an its by the actual test makers of the NET. I really like it, I feel like reading comprehension is my strength, but the study guide helped me to sharpen that. after taking the practice exam, I saw I was missed some of the inference questions so I went back and studied why I missed them and when I took the second practice test I got 100! With the math, I understand almost everything except for simplifying equations which I will work on, and I need to keep reviewing these types of problems because Im getting them mixed up as far as what to do to solve

ex. 4 is 25% of x

versus

ex 48% of x=60

versus

7=(?)% of 28

versus

.3% of 60

I can do these after referring to my notes, but off the top of my head I forget what u do to each type of problem. Does anyone know any websites where I can practice these kinds of problems as well as simplifying algebraic expressions and solving them. Im least worried about the equations because they say there are only a few of those problems so if u do well on everything else, they arent very important and since they take a while do do, Id rather focus my time on the ones I know for a fact I can solve in a short time.

[luv4nursing]

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