Anyone take the HESI?

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Tbone3

41 Posts

I definitely care. Right now I am just trying to focus on passing (last try) I feel that schools using this exam to this degree lacks confidence in their program. There has to be some legal implications because it's just wrong to do this to students.

Tbone3

41 Posts

They should be talking to a lawyer.

zm259

40 Posts

i need help with HESi how to study for it . illl be taking it for the 4th time .

please help im so stressed

I am currently finishing my pre-reqs. and am in A & P and Chemistry now. I am scheduled to take the HESI exam on October 14th and am trying to find websites with practice exams and am having nothing but problems. any good web sites you'd recommend???? I've tried the www.hesitest.com, but am not able to open the information...any suggestions???

Bamarina

8 Posts

I recently took HESI in May and the requirements for our school was to score 870 or above. Thank God!!! I scored an 886. I found the test to be very difficult what I did for studying was the HESI book an CD. If HESI is a predicter of NCLEX it predicted me wrong. Also we only get three times to take the exam, after 3 failures you have to accept your degree in ARTS.

Ohmygosh

110 Posts

I didnt read all 9 pages of posts, so I dont know if this info is posted but---you can order a hesi book from the hesi web site. www.hesitest.com --I cost about $70.00

BestSweetGal

48 Posts

Specializes in LTC and Med/Surg.

I am one of those students who took HESI 3 times and has not gotten the score needed to obtain my degree. My classmates and I are not taking no for an answer, we trying to get this issue resolved. 6 out of 11 have not gotten their degrees. What does that tell you? The school failed to prepare us. We were not introduced to HESI until our 2nd sem of our sr year, when it should have been our soph. year. The program is new (I'm in the 2nd BSN class, '06). We felt like guinea pigs, tested on every little test, formats. At the end, we pass all our classes, majority has 3.0 or above, but b/c we didn't get a 900 or better, we are stuck w/o a degree. Now we are getting paperwork together, pettitions, lawyers, etc. So pray for us and our school to realize that there is work to be done.

nursemi

59 Posts

Hesi was created as a Diagnostic tool for nursing students to determine their areas of weakness. Most schools are using it as an exit exam and prevent the students nurses from obtaining there earned degree and sitting for the State Boards. Areas of weakness should have been addressed with these students from the beginning and end of the school by the nursing faculty. Instead they wait until you have passed all of your courses and than have your areas of weakness be addressed. They than add the scare tactic of repeating second year if there is availability in the second year if you fail Hesi.

Ask the nursing faculty why they didn't know where their students areas of weaknesses were? Obviously this is a State Wide problem and it should be addressed State Wide. NCLEX does not mandate Hesi to be taken only your school does. There are many student nurses out there who cannot find a job because now they don't have a degree based on failing Hesi. After completing three or four years of college they have nothing to show for it. Do you remember waking up 4-5 in the morning for clinicals, staying up until 3 am to study. How about the 6-10 chapters a week with the weekly exam. All that sacrifice - gone! We need to address this issue. For those students nurses who did pass Hesi and now RNs' should still advocate this issue. It is not fair. So many have stated that Hesi and Nclex are not the same. Other schools who use it as just a diagnostic tool have said they bombed Hesi but breezed thru NCLEX. Get the attorney it is worth it, we can make it a state wide issue, we have. As nurses we need to advocate what is right.

LUVtxNursing

104 Posts

Hesi was created as a Diagnostic tool for nursing students to determine their areas of weakness. Most schools are using it as an exit exam and prevent the students nurses from obtaining there earned degree and sitting for the State Boards. Areas of weakness should have been addressed with these students from the beginning and end of the school by the nursing faculty. Instead they wait until you have passed all of your courses and than have your areas of weakness be addressed. They than add the scare tactic of repeating second year if there is availability in the second year if you fail Hesi.

Ask the nursing faculty why they didn't know where their students areas of weaknesses were? Obviously this is a State Wide problem and it should be addressed State Wide. NCLEX does not mandate Hesi to be taken only your school does. There are many student nurses out there who cannot find a job because now they don't have a degree based on failing Hesi. After completing three or four years of college they have nothing to show for it. Do you remember waking up 4-5 in the morning for clinicals, staying up until 3 am to study. How about the 6-10 chapters a week with the weekly exam. All that sacrifice - gone! We need to address this issue. For those students nurses who did pass Hesi and now RNs' should still advocate this issue. It is not fair. So many have stated that Hesi and Nclex are not the same. Other schools who use it as just a diagnostic tool have said they bombed Hesi but breezed thru NCLEX. Get the attorney it is worth it, we can make it a state wide issue, we have. As nurses we need to advocate what is right.

I totally agree!!!:yeah: My school uses HESI this way and I think it's soooo not fair!! I actually did quite well on HESI, but 40% of my class failed. There were so many that had decent grades and are excellent clinically that failed this freakish test!! To make it even worse, we did not find out our results until the day before graduation!! We were only the second LVN class at this school to have the "pass or don't graduate" rule. I understand making it a big portion of the final grade, but making it to where no matter how good your grade is, you will not graduate if you don't pass is ridiculous!!:madface: I don't know where to even begin to change this, but I would love for it to be changed before I start the RN bridge next summer.

Bamarina

8 Posts

Yes the HESI book can be bought online, luckily we could buy ours at the school bookstore for $80. I read that book inside and out and it is a really good tool for that exam.

hesi_mania

5 Posts

guys, I failed HESI 2 times, I worked really harddd for the test for 30 days, the areas i did well first time didnt do well second time, plzzz any tips to pass the hesi guys, 3rd one is my final chance to pass it, Help needed your fellow to be nurse. 803, 743, second time the test was harder. If I had the same knowledge as I am having now at the first time, I would have surely passed with 850. I dont know I am all scared now. only one more chance left. They said, they mite let me proceed to capstone, if i score good on kaplan review test at the end of the kaplan review. Does anybody have any idea about Kaplan review and the test at the end?

hesi_mania

5 Posts

The most horrible thing about this hesi is , in integumentary, 5 questions were given i got 4 of them correct but my score in that area is 810, its failing, what does this mean, Even if you have scored 4 out of 5 in it ur still failing, what kind of testing system is this. last time i missed 56 questions out of 160 i got 803, this time i missed 60 questions i got 743, so what does it mean, 4 questions are worth 60 pointsss???? What kind of BS is this testing strategy, Has anybody taken readiness test of KAPLAN. I have that test on 29th If I pass that with 65% I will be graduated. Can any body tell me what should I study for KAPLAN readiness test?

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