I wanted to report to ya'll about some interesting facts straight from HESI on their scoring explanation sheet that prints out when you print your scores.
Quoted directly from the printout (bolded items are mine, and used to emphasize that the average score is SO close, that it seems to not matter whether one is diploma, adn, or bsn prepared). I find that extremely interesting, and hope you all will too.
"An acceptable level of performance is 850, however, the recommended level of performance is 900 and above for all HESI scores provided.
Each school is responsible for establishing their specific standards related to outcome measures of acceptable HESI scores. Many school choose a certain overall HESI score as a benchmark for progression, and such benchmarks are set at the discretion of the school's faculty and administrators. However, when preparing for the NCLEX, HESI recommends that students seriously remediate any subject area category in which they obtained a HESI score of less than 850.
All test items are weighted according to their difficulty level. If you answer more difficult items correctly, you will get more credit than if you answer less difficult test items correctly. Because of this scoring method, it is highly probably that two students answering the same number of test items correctly will receive different HESI scores because such scores depend not only on how many test items the student answered correctly, but also on which test items the student answered incorrectly.
The Percentile Score Ranking measures your level of performance as compared to the performance of a standard or "norm" group. For this exam, the norm group consists of 37,397 nursing students from all types of RN programs (diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate degree) who took the HESI RN exit exam in the last 364 days.
The Percentile Score Ranking does not reflect the percentage of test items that you answered correctly. Instead, the percentile ranking is useful for determining how many students in the nation scored BELOW your score.
You scored in the 80.58 percentile rank, which means that you performed better than 80.58% of the nation's nursing students, while only 19.42% of the nation's students had higher scores than you.
Average HESI score- National average and Your student group average
For nursing students in ALL RN programs who took the HESI RN Exit Exam in the last 364 days, the average HESI score was 841, which is reflected at the 50th percentile. For nursing students in your program, the average HESI score was 835, which reflects the 48.35 percentile level.
The average HESI score was 838, which reflects the 49.1 percentile rank for nursing students in diploma programs who took the HESI RN exit exam in the last 364 days.
The average HESI score was 837, which reflects the 49.15 percentile rank for nursing students in ADN programs who took the HESI RN exit exam in the last 364 days.
The average HESI score was 838, which reflects the 49.27 percentile rank for nursing students in BSN programs who took the HESI RN exit exam in the last 364 days. "
(btw, my score was a 958)
HTH answer some questions that are frequently posted on this site regarding HESI exams!
