Taking the HESI exam for the first time in 10 days.

Nursing Students HESI

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Appreciate everyone's responses in helping me prepare for hesi exam. I have studied for a month and feel sorta prepared for the exam. For my final 10 days, I want to find out how to study for the vocabulary section, and the critical thinking section. How do I study for these sections? I am applying to UT Health Science Center in Houston as well as Texas A&M. I would like to know from recent hesi takers how the test is designed and what new materials are presented on there. Thank you

Jay

Specializes in critical care.

Can't help you on the critical thinking, but for the vocabulary I can say this much: Don't expect the definitions for each word to be the same part of speech as the original word. I'm a total grammar queen, and that messed me up. I was more than halfway through when I realized I was approaching the questions completely wrong and you can't go back once you've answered. The one section I thought I'd do the best on, I did the worst!

Thank you so much. I'm just in panic mode right now because I don't know what to expect. What did you mean by part of speech?

Specializes in critical care.

Well, let's say they ask you this:

Choose the best meaning for the highlighted word:

The cells had to *proliferate* in response to the infection.

A. Reaction

B. Begin

C. Propagation

D. Spread

In my brain, I'd have compartmentalized this question to rule out anything that wasn't a verb. Propagation is actually the synonym to proliferation, though, and in this question, the right answer.

I would of chosen spread. O man, I need to study hard.

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