All About the NET

Seaotter -Mind me asking how long did you use the reading lab before taking the Net again? I think the very last day for me to take the Net is 9 days away but I feel weary about it. I don't want to take it again and fail once more. I am very frustrated with my reading comp. I did so horrible, I don't even want to remind myself. I am going to order the readinglab today and hope that it helps with my speed.

I feel so upset guys...sigh...

Thanks for the information! I didnt know where to seek for help about the NET! I hope that with this new info I get a high score!

Thank you so much for posting this!!!

However, the link PDF you linked to didn't work, could you kindly post it again.

I've taken the NET Test twice and failed both times Now I have to wait a whole year before I can even get in the NET test at my college again (Cal U in PA). I'm looking for ANY help I can get!! Thanks!!

So my NET exam is in 2 weeks and I have some questions. In the reading comprehension section, I was unable to answer #4, 7, 8. 19 and 20. I am pretty confident about the rest of my answers. When can I check with the answer key to confirm my responses? Thanks a bunch!

If you are talking about the oneline practice test, you just keep trying different answers until you get them right. The written expression was the only one I had to track one-by-one (up to 4 tries per question) for an answer sheet (and learn after you burn your time). When you figure out the reading, you should get near 100%, except inference requires (for me) eliminating each one is not specifically stated. However, the main ideas was the hardest to learn because they will always throw in a 'too narrow', a 'too broad', and a trivial mentioned phrase. Good luck.

Just wanted to Let yall know I took the net last Friday. I got a 73% on the reading and a 93% on the math. This feed helped! Also I did break down and buy the online ERI program too. It helped as well.'m just glad I got over a 60% on the reading. Hopefully Suny Downstate will admit me!

I took the NET exam and I wish I had tried your study tips csantos. I was really bummed out because I didnt do good on my math section which is my weakest subject. My study time is limited because I am mother of four and I work fulltime. Not passing my exam made me question if I could do it or not. I have another chance to take it the beginning of Dec. But I also have a final that day. Not sure what I should do? I have kinda lost my mojo on this one.

You can do it witcher7. Although I am not a mother of four, I do work full time and am
also taking three classes. It was really hard to study for the net but I read on
my way to school( on the train), at lunch breaks, and I stayed up late. Do whatever you can to increase your grade. Good luck

I first of all would find out EXACTLY WHAT PART of the test scores are used by each school you are going to apply to. My school just looked at the Reading Comp. and Math scores, that was all! The rest of the exam was a total waste of time and I could have walked out of the exam after taking my two needed aspects and it would have had no effect on my ranking in admissions at my school.
Once I found out what to focus on thats all I focused on. Just focus on those needed areas to study and do not worry about what else is on the exam if your school does not worry or use those scores!
I did many different types of google searches on this topic. I found tons of web pages and practice tests for free. Try to avoid the pay sites, they are usually crap.
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Critical thinking skills is supposedly what is REALLY being looked for by many of these exams and schools. If you have the time do some research into critical thinking skills and, how critical thinking skills are used in these exams doing so should help, it sure did for me!
When I figured out much of this exam was about seeing how much you could "SEE" into a problem; or see the differences, or for the ONE SINGLE item that was different and more inclusive or more exclusive than all the other answers, even if only by a small percentage, then that is what the test writers were looking for in the correct exam answer to their exam question.
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These tests do not usually show how much general education or knowledge you have at all!!! They are not meant to do that.
Many are SUPPOSED to show HOW you think! NOT, WHAT YOU ALL READY KNOW!
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YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW WHAT THEY SAY in the test, NOT what YOU all ready know about something. They WILL want a correct answer from THEIR test information provided from THEIR test and NOT the real answer from life in the real world!

This point was made very clear over and over both by the company that writes and owns the NET and by other exams I found out.
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(I do not totally buy this idea that a secret, privately made and controlled, supposedly standardized, insanely high stress 3-hour long test, taken with a packed class room of very stressed out people, all taking the same stressed out 3-hour exam (my test version was 3 years old BTW!) can actually do such a great job of actually seeing how well you think in reality. But testing mass numbers of desperate students this way sure does make millions of dollars for the test making companies! Maybe I should work for them!)
By the way, Not all schools waste their time with such antiquated ideas of how a single pre-exam proposes that students with scores above a certain percentage point on a single very high stress exam will make the best nurses someday anyway!
Quite often these tests are just one more tool to lower the over whelming amount of students applying for the too few seats in nursing schools....

Thanks for all of the encouragment and support. I still have not decided if I would retake it again in December I guess I should. I just gotta be able to committ the study time. I think I can do it I will keep you guys posted.