Watts School of Nursing?

I'm a rising third semester Watts student, so I can't answer anything about waiting lists but can speak about other things.

I love Watts, it's the hardest and most rewarding experience of my life. I'm an older student, so I felt I needed more of the hands on experience that Watts would provide.

I worked a FT, 45-50 hour a week job while taking my pre-req's. If you don't have any college credit, then you will take most of your pre-req's at Watts at night, two days a week for 4 hours a night. I took three online courses (because of previous credits) and took three classes at the Watts campus to fulfill my obligations. I had other classmates that had to take all the pre-req's at Watts and still held full time jobs.

After I finished my pre-req's, I quit working. Not everyone in my class is that lucky and there are some that work 40+ hours. I have NO idea how they do it.

Feel free to PM with any questions you may have.

Good luck

So whats the best book to use to study for the preadmission test. Ive heard good and bad about the one your advised to get in the packet. What about using the Net Test Study Guide?

I used the Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Examinations book, as did most everyone that I have ever talked to about it. Can't say I have ever heard of the other one.

Check your PM.

If 2 or 3 pre reqs are done at another NC community college- will that be taken into consideration when applying?

I'm getting ready to take the entrance exam for Watts. I have the ARCO book. The math in it is alot more than arithmatic. What kind of math is on the test?

I'm trying to get into Watts. What is the entrance exam like?

JMV1129,

The entrance exam can be pretty stressful. Study the book they tell you to get (allied health entrance exams). The first part is the academic aptitude portion and you have 90 questions and about 25 minutes to answer then (can't rember the exact time but it's about 20 seconds a question) 30 are verbal and they are all antonyms. For those I made flash cards of all the words I didn't know and memorized them and it worked like a charm! 30 math questions and you need to make sure you know how to multiply, add, subtract and divide your fractions. Also, be able to change a fraction to a percent and vise versa. Then you have 30 spatial questions, they don't have any practice for those in the books. They are like analogies with shapes. The reading part is kinda tough because you are so burnt out after the first portion and you only have 15 minutes for that. The best advice I can give is work as fast as you can. Answer all the question on the academic aptitude part, even though they say they don't expect you too. I had to retest and went from 33 percentile to 95 percentile all because I was working to slow the first time I took it and the second time I answered all of the questions and did really well. Let me know if you have more questions, I love to help!

I'll take any help I can get. I really want to go to Watts. I plan on taking the test in Feb or March. Where did you pick your words for the antomyms from? The ARCO book? Any sugestions for practicing the math? Thanks.

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The antonyms are from the ARCO book, the words are really similar on the test and the flash cards helped so much. I flew through those. For the math I basically studied up on fractions and percentiles, decimals as well. The problems in the book are pretty similar to the ones on the test. I had just forgotten how to do all of those things but once I started practicing it came back. I'm still slow at figuring them out though.

I see there is an "ARCO" book that some have used. What is this book, what does ARCO stand for (or is it the publisher) which edition and who is the author? Has it been a useful tool for studying? Thanks!:wink2: