TEAS VI

LivinmyPurpose · Sep 17, 2016

Are the A&P questions simply or should i look at outside resources like textbooks to know really in depth about the systems of the body!?

cmac21, BSN, RN · Sep 18, 2016

They weren't bad. If you've taken A&P recently I wouldn't be too worried about it.

Schroh49 · Sep 21, 2016

I'm taking the teas 6 on Friday, and I am nervous about the A&P portion. I did not have the opportunity to buy the teas 6 study manual; however I did purchase and take both practice tests from ATI. I have not recently taken A and P, do you have any specific recommendations for me as far as the A and P section?

Schroh49 · Sep 21, 2016

I take the teas 6 on Friday, I am really nervous about the A&P portion. I purchased and took the two online practice exams and did ok. I didn't get a chance to buy the ATI teas 6 study manual. Any specific suggestions for me regarding A &p would be appreciated!

Zenndaya · Sep 21, 2016

I'm taking the TEAS in October (Oct 14 to be exact) and I was initially planning on purchasing the ATI study manual + practice tests at first, but money's a bit tight. I could still purchase it but I'm not too sure if its necessary. My college has a study manual (ATI for the TEAS VI) on hold at the library though. Could I effectively study with just that??

Zenndaya · Sep 22, 2016

I heard that the flow of blood through the heart is a guaranteed portion in there (which is actually A&PII). I don't know for sure though since I've never taken it so don't take my words as fact

BenJoe · Sep 23, 2016

Hey, did you do the Teas test yet? How was it? Update please :))

Merouda · Sep 28, 2016

I took ATI Teas (TEAS VI) on Monday, September 26. I am still waiting for the results (so frustrating, particularly since I am aware that many other people had their results within hours) so you must take my impressions of the test within that light. This is how I felt I did; I have no objective evidence to back it up. My goal was to score in the 80's for all subtests, and I am reasonably sure I did that (but, as I said, no guarantees, as the "experimental questions" could be score spoilers). The school I am working with has put out guidelines on what scores they are looking for, so getting 80 or above across the board will get you at least considered.

Reading: This is my powerful area, so I did not find it hard overall, but there were some questions that were real duesies. In addition to readings of 1-3 paragraphs, there were rearrangements, charts, and mental manipulations that required interpretation. Most of it was pretty standard, but I have to believe that some of the odder offerings were from the pool of experimental questions. It felt like it was not just a test of my ability to read and understand material, but also my ability to intuit information from disparate observations.

Math: Very standard stuff. It is more of an applied math test, stuff you would be expected to be able to manipulate as a professional nurse rather than as a researcher. Basic math, algebra, geometry, stats. I did notice a difference between the TEAS V practice tests and the TEAS VI practice and actual tests, though. TEAS V was a lot more about solving basic math problems, where as TEAS VI was more about recognizing the kind of problem you were dealing with, setting it up, and then solving. There were metric to English, metric to metric, and English to metric measurement problems, as well. It appears that there are less math questions on TEAS VI than was on TEAS V, but the time is about the same on both versions of the subtest. I suspect that this is because the test is supposed to demand more mental processing and less rote solving, so practice your word problems.

Science: This one was probably the area where I had the most issue, because either you know it, or you don't, and I took my sciences about 1 million years ago. The focus was mostly HA&P, with some basic biology, basic chemistry, and scientific reasoning. Most of the questions are general, but they do throw in the occasional in-depth question that feels like it is from left field, because it is the sort of question that is waaaaayyyy beyond the depth level of the majority of questions. It's like you are dealing with questions like "How many legs does a cow have? Is a dog a mammal? Do sharks have teeth?" and then you suddenly get "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

English: Again, this was pretty standard punctuation, editing, structure identification stuff. If you can break a sentence into its constituent parts, you will blow through this. If you can't, it's like the Science section. Either you know it or you don't.

My overall impression of the test is that it is very, oh, interwoven. There are questions demanding math in the science section and questions demanding scientific reasoning in the reading section, and so forth. It felt like the test was measuring my capacity to reason and observe as much as it was testing my basic knowledge.

I spent some time preparing for the test, mostly by taking whatever sample tests I could get my hands on. I started out brushing up on things with an NLN guide, but it was soon apparent that I was getting more out of skipping the review sections of study guides and just focusing on the practice tests. So I took every internet test I could find, some of which were really terrible. The most useful online tests I found, that I did not have to pay for, were at Learning Express. I also got the McGraw-Hill tests from my library, and I bought a used NLN guide, took all those tests. Lastly, I did buy the Mometix TEAS VI guide, and the test questions in there were at the same level as the TEAS VI test itself. It's also a better deal than the ATI materials.