All About the NET

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since there has been a few people in need of NET help, i will break it down to you guys!

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people... you are native americans, it makes it easy for you to do way better that i did... once again HERE IT GOES HOW TO REALLY DO GREAT ON YOUR NET TEST.

EASY NET in 6 STEPS

1 you have to have some time to study, allow your self about 2 hours a day (i was able to learn all the subjects and study on my own and at work!!!) you have to sacrifice whatever it is but make it 2-3 holy hours per day no matter what! (for about 10 days)

2 go to www.testprepreview.com and download and print their NET nurse entrance test, youll find it on the left hand side. then once you have it, you print it about 10 copies and staple 10 sets, they will be your everyday practice sets. now that you have done that, you will go to http://www.midland.edu/~hsd/pdf/8-NET_Test.pdf and do the exact same thing, make 10 copies and staple the sets, this is another GREAT EXCELENT exam and both of them are lets say 99% of what you need to know to score at least a 85 on your net and I GUARANTEE IT!.

3your studying schedule, first of all you are going to take the first test either one you choose, and you will solve it, take your time, try to understand, come online and post (lets ask for a sticky on this only for the net thread Huh? please all nurses!!!) well you will answer all the questions you can, and do not check yet to verify your answers, once you finish all the questions you know, you will then verify those answers, then whatever you could not solve, just come here and post the number of the questions and whether it is from plato or test prep, that i will step by step answer it and assist you.

you will then get the next NET and solve it also...and again, once you have doubts post them here and i will help you.

After doing that for 5 days, you on the weekend will go to discovery.com or any other science website and you will read about 3-5 articles, just so you can update, improve, sharpen your infra-reading skills, do dot skip this step, do that on the weekend so you can take a break on your studies and prepare for the second week.

On your second week you will start timing your self, you will give your self 1 minute per question, so total it like 60 minutes for 60 math questions! and time your self on the english part also, wich actually is the most time consuming questions.

4 it is getting close for you to take the NET and you have about 3-4 days prior to it, so now you will do this technique that i call compilation, you will add all the math questions from both tests and you will solve them back to back, as many as you can, when you need a break take a quick one, but make it your goal to solve all of them!!! and by this time you should be getting at least 90% of them right!! once you are done with that, you will just answer 15 random questions on the english part.

On the day after you will invert, you will then solve all the english part, (again, as many as you can with no breaks, then once you need one do not hesitate but do not loose your "studystamina" wich i call concentration) done with that, you shall then answer 15 math question, try getting those ones that gives you a hard time and you often miss them, please try timing your self be generous, give your self 19 minutes for them.

Again repeat the step 4 on the next day.

5 It is now 2 days before the test, and at this day you will not study, you will not drill, you will only make sure, that you have no doubts and all your math and words are sharp, posting doubts, and making sure you are up to par!

On the day before your test you will do this, you will give yourself 1 hour on the clock to solve 30 math questions, and 30 english in the morning, and repeat that at night, just to wrap it all up.

6 it is NET DAY, today you will not freak out because you are prepared, you solved your problems, you found the meaning and main ideas of the paregraphs, and you are doing just awesome not it is time to show it to your self.

Taking the NET:

you might start with a essay sometimes that is not required, if not you will go to MATH, you are going to start solving your test, 100% concentration right here, if you stumble uppon a question that you might be having a tiny bit of trouble with it just skip it, dont guess, and go to the next one, so by the end of the test you saved your self plenty of time to solve those 5-6 questions that you were having trouble with, now just press the button on the computer (of course if it is computer based version) "uncheck questions only" and the system will only display the ones you left for last, doing so you will save time on the easy ones, and have actualy more then 1 minute per remaining questions.

Now when it comes to the english portion i recomend you glance-read the paragraf, take a peek at the question and then you can go back to the paragraph and choose the right answer, they are not long paragraphs, often 200 hundred words...

AND NOW YOU ARE DONE

great job!

just follow this and you will be great and at least score a minimum of a composite 85.... i got a 92!

and that will not guarantee your admission... but it will have a great weight and consideration

Please moderators, can you make this a sticky note?

I the NET for the 2nd time this afternoon! And I PASSED! I got a 74% in the Math! I got a 47% the first time i took it on Saturday. And yes it was the same test the second time around...same math and same reading on animals and hibernation.

Congrats on passing!!! :yeah::bow:

Could you tell me how many passages you got for reading? Was it the 11 questions for each passage?

I took it once last year and it wasn't about animals and hibernation. I had one about the creation of soap, another about something I can't remember, and the last one being about the ear. oh my god the ear article killed me. First I lost way too much time doing the ones before it so I couldn't even concentrating thinking that I have no time left. Second the article was just too hard to understand.

Animals and hibernations sounds a lil easier....I hope I get that one.

Specializes in EMS~ ALS.../...Bartending ~ Psych :).

{oh my god the ear article killed me.}:eek:

lol, now that you mention it..... i had that "ear" passage too! uggggggggg.... i had forgotton all about that! i passed it, but obviously locked the info in my brain vault of useless information.

WhoNeedsaShot - congrats for passing it! I think I had like six minutes by the time I got to that article so I just randomly picked answers..it was pitiful!

Does anyone remember how the reading comprehension was broken up? To the best of my abilities, I remember it being 3 passages and I'm thinking..11 questions for each passage?

The reason I'm wondering is...I got a 63 and assuming I got most of it wrong on the last passage due to lack of time, that would mean that I did pretty well on the first two. Anyone care to make my day?

:yeah:I took my NET this morning and got a 100 on the math and a 85 on the reading comprehension! Utlizing all of the resources mentioned in this thread really helped.

I thought I would break it down for anyone who was interested.

Math: 30 total questions

decimals=8, fractions=4, percentages=6, conversions=8, algebra=4

Reading comprehension: 33 total questions

main idea =7, predicting outcomes=11, inferential=15

A couple things: They ask several times "What is the purois eof this paragraph?" I wasn't prepared for purpose... Also, my reading passages were 3 diffferent passages. One dealing with microbiology, one with Hippocrates, and I forget the other?

The only tricky peice was that at the end the screen would show the final paragraph given, follwed by several questions that were not related to that specific paragraph. If you intended to go back and find the answer in the paragraph you had to go back and sort through them to find to find the correct paragraph.

I would suggest really practicing focusing on the reading and practicing understand the paragraphs. I'm not sure of a better way to do this than timing yourself with any of the practice tests. Really try to put yourself in the positionof the author. If someone ask what the author was trying to say in the passage, youshould be able to given them a quick sketch.

Anyway, I'm so glad it's over and grateful that I did well!

i live in palm beach and we seem to have a differnt version of the test. our NET READING is is on bacteria, day and night people and how the ear works.

A couple things: They ask several times "What is the purois eof this paragraph?" I wasn't prepared for purpose... Also, my reading passages were 3 diffferent passages. One dealing with microbiology, one with Hippocrates, and I forget the other?

HEY YOUR TEST IS JUST LIKE MINES, CAN YOU HELP ME SCORE A GRADE LIKE YOURS IN THE ENGLISH? WHAT IS YOUR STRATEGY?

:yeah:I took my NET this morning and got a 100 on the math and a 85 on the reading comprehension! Utlizing all of the resources mentioned in this thread really helped.

I thought I would break it down for anyone who was interested.

Math: 30 total questions

decimals=8, fractions=4, percentages=6, conversions=8, algebra=4

Reading comprehension: 33 total questions

main idea =7, predicting outcomes=11, inferential=15

A couple things: They ask several times "What is the purois eof this paragraph?" I wasn't prepared for purpose... Also, my reading passages were 3 diffferent passages. One dealing with microbiology, one with Hippocrates, and I forget the other?

The only tricky peice was that at the end the screen would show the final paragraph given, follwed by several questions that were not related to that specific paragraph. If you intended to go back and find the answer in the paragraph you had to go back and sort through them to find to find the correct paragraph.

I would suggest really practicing focusing on the reading and practicing understand the paragraphs. I'm not sure of a better way to do this than timing yourself with any of the practice tests. Really try to put yourself in the positionof the author. If someone ask what the author was trying to say in the passage, youshould be able to given them a quick sketch.

Anyway, I'm so glad it's over and grateful that I did well!

You did such a great job!!!! 85 would guarantee me getting accpted. So happy for you!! And thank you so much for coming back to share your knowledge with us.

Do you remember if each passage had the same amount of questions? Was each passage harder than the one before? The one I took I felt like the hardest passage was the ear and that was at the end.

Oh, and how did you do with the timing on reading? Did you get enough time to finish all the questions?

Any ways, congrats for doing SO WELL! :yeah:

I studied almost nightly for about 3 weeks. I googled and did almost every SAT, GRE, and NET practice test I could find. The ones that really helped were the kind that explained the answer when it was incorrect. Try:

http://education.yahoo.com/college/essentials/practice_tests/sat/;_ylt=AoYzQ3d_zbpQciZEt87Y8fkQmrQF

http://www.majortests.com/

I also utilized a web site from the author of my Eng. Comp text.

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx

The best thing I found for simple definitions of terms was:

http://www.studyguidezone.com/nursingtest.htm

plus, earlier in this thread someone posted an excerpt from the ERI study guide. Those definitions were helpful!

Best wishes!

It's oddly hard to remember! I do believe that there were an equal number of questions. I also had the ear passage.

Another thing I wanted to add was that I really thought that some of the most difficult questions were at the beginning of the Math section. if you let yourself get bogged down in the beginning, you'll start flailing. Skip ahead and get some questions under your belt and then when you feel more confident at the end , go back to the more difficult ones. I know everyone says that, but it really was KEY!

:yeah:I took my NET this morning and got a 100 on the math and a 85 on the reading comprehension! Utlizing all of the resources mentioned in this thread really helped.

I thought I would break it down for anyone who was interested.

Math: 30 total questions

decimals=8, fractions=4, percentages=6, conversions=8, algebra=4

Reading comprehension: 33 total questions

main idea =7, predicting outcomes=11, inferential=15

A couple things: They ask several times "What is the purois eof this paragraph?" I wasn't prepared for purpose... Also, my reading passages were 3 diffferent passages. One dealing with microbiology, one with Hippocrates, and I forget the other?

The only tricky peice was that at the end the screen would show the final paragraph given, follwed by several questions that were not related to that specific paragraph. If you intended to go back and find the answer in the paragraph you had to go back and sort through them to find to find the correct paragraph.

I would suggest really practicing focusing on the reading and practicing understand the paragraphs. I'm not sure of a better way to do this than timing yourself with any of the practice tests. Really try to put yourself in the positionof the author. If someone ask what the author was trying to say in the passage, youshould be able to given them a quick sketch.

Anyway, I'm so glad it's over and grateful that I did well!

Oh MY Gosh!! Congrats!:yeah: Can you take my test for me??!!

J/K but I hope I can score that high too!! Good for you!

:yeah:I took my NET this morning and got a 100 on the math and a 85 on the reading comprehension! Utlizing all of the resources mentioned in this thread really helped.

I thought I would break it down for anyone who was interested.

Math: 30 total questions

decimals=8, fractions=4, percentages=6, conversions=8, algebra=4

Reading comprehension: 33 total questions

main idea =7, predicting outcomes=11, inferential=15

A couple things: They ask several times "What is the purois eof this paragraph?" I wasn't prepared for purpose... Also, my reading passages were 3 diffferent passages. One dealing with microbiology, one with Hippocrates, and I forget the other?

The only tricky peice was that at the end the screen would show the final paragraph given, follwed by several questions that were not related to that specific paragraph. If you intended to go back and find the answer in the paragraph you had to go back and sort through them to find to find the correct paragraph.

I would suggest really practicing focusing on the reading and practicing understand the paragraphs. I'm not sure of a better way to do this than timing yourself with any of the practice tests. Really try to put yourself in the positionof the author. If someone ask what the author was trying to say in the passage, youshould be able to given them a quick sketch.

Anyway, I'm so glad it's over and grateful that I did well!

Oh my Gosh! Thats such a great score! CONGRATS!! :yeah: I wish you could take my test for me!! Hopefully I score that good for my second attempt on Monday! But great job!!!

sorry bout the double post. my comp messed up and i thought i had to re-do it!:typing

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