All About the NET

[9livesRN]

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?

[Yay4ThisForum]

Hi guys I had a few questions that I was hoping you could answer.

1. Does the math portion of the test really not have any of those dreaded word problems? (too good to be true) I know this has been answered a couple of times, it is just hard to believe considering how many study guides for the NET test are loaded with word problems.

2. I was told that the "Written Expression" area of the test would not be administered at my testing center. Is this normal? (or am i just lucky?)

3. Has anyone had to do the "Wonderlic" test and the "NET" test to create a composite score for entry into school? If so do you know how much weight if put into the "Wonderlic" test for the composite?

PS Awesome forum!!!

How i'm studying...

Workbooks from Amazon.com

501 Reading Comprehension Questions (this was really helpful! takes about a week to finish and allows you to really hone in on what mistakes you are making as you progress.)

501 Math Word Problems (hopefully i can burn this book after someone reply's to this :)

1001 Math Problems

Digital Voice Recorder with notes on why i missed certain reading comp problems. Handy to have if your at the gym or driving around, just grab headphones and listen :)

testpreview.net (Advanced Reading Comprehension)

SAT (Reading Comp)

2 diff NET study guides so I could compare similarities between them. Plus more practice tests.

PSS. I agree with everyone that the reading comp takes more prep time but after a couple weeks of just studying it i think its becoming really easy.

[mochabean]

1. I just took the NET and there were no word problems. Just visit the links Carlos posted, practice the problems, and you'll be fine. I looked at 3 different study guides and they were nothing like the NET I took today.

2. We skipped "written expression"

3. Never heard of "wonderlic"

I was stressing all summer over taking the NET and it wasn't as bad as I thought. If anything, practice the math problems at testpreview.com for NET and practice timing yourself reading paragraphs and answering questions and you'll be fine.

[2bNurseLove419]

Hey! Well when i took the NET at my school, the math did not have any word problems. There was just basic math on it. (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, and a few algebra) The math was pretty easy. As for the written expression part, we did not have that on our test. I was really expecting it because all of my study guides have that portion in there. But there was no written expression!! Which was fine with me!!

And i have never heard of the wonderlic test. i just had to take the NET and get at least a 75 composite score from that.

~ i hope this answered your questions, if you have any more, i will be sure to answer them!!!! and i wish you the best of luck!!

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

my reading portion was about hibernation

[HappyMeNow]

yay4thisforum,

i'm looking up the 501 reading comprehension book on amazon, could you tell me which author it is by? there are several.

also, did it have a lot of inference, outcome and main idea questions?

[ogajla]

hey csantos ! you certainly are a motivator ! i take my net on august 11th - im so nervouse im not a good tester for the unknown..lol i heard that if you fail they would still concider letting a person in if the refrences were realyy good ...is that true ?

[arismom1]

Did everyone study all of the math modules on testpreview.com or just certain ones.

[hg09]

Math section had 30 questions instead of 60 - no word problems, mostly percentages, fractions, very basic algebra.

My reading sections were over parts of the ear, Hippocrates, and infection (bacteriology, viruses, etc).

We had to take the written part - capitalizations, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling demons, etc. I've heard that some schools skip this because they don't use it in the composite score.

The science was basic a&p, biology, cell biology, and chemistry. This also wasn't used in our scores.

The survey portion was a waste of time. It said I have 20% stress from the workplace and I don't even have a job right now. :uhoh21:

Our school made us take the written version (wish we would have had the computer one)

I scored a 96 composite, 99th percentile without any study

On the math, you can usually form an equation to get the answer though you still need to understand the structure of the problem.

Example: 5 is ___% of 20

This is really a simple algebra equation: 20x=5, where x equals percent

To get x by its self, divide both sides by 20, and x = 5/20

x = .25, move the decimal place over to the right 2 places and you get 25%.

A good number of problems seemed to be structured like this.

For the reading, one of the answers always looked more obvious than the others. For main idea of a passage, it's usually the one that is not specific. For example, If the reading was over the hands it would be like this:

a. Hands have fingers

b. Hands can flex in several directions

c. Hands grasp objects

d. Hands are a mechanical tool used in many ways

A, B, and C are specifically talking about 1 component of the hand - it's not broad enough. D, however, covers a main idea that includes all the other answers (it's a mechanical tool because it has fingers, flexes, and grasps).

The purpose questions were a bit difficult to determine but they work in the same way.

Hopes this gives anyone a better idea of what to expect - I went in really not knowing what would be on the test other than some math and reading. I did not know there were study guides online and didn't want to pay/didn't have time to receive the study guide from the company.

If you can get ahold of a study guide that has percentages, fractions, ratios, and simple algebraic equations you should be fine.

For the reading, try to look beyond the question at what the test is really asking.

Good luck anyone that is taking the test - I fared pretty well and my GPA is a lot to be desired.

[mochabean]

Math section had 30 questions instead of 60 - no word problems, mostly percentages, fractions, very basic algebra.

My reading sections were over parts of the ear, Hippocrates, and infection (bacteriology, viruses, etc).

We had to take the written part - capitalizations, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling demons, etc. I've heard that some schools skip this because they don't use it in the composite score.

The science was basic a&p, biology, cell biology, and chemistry. This also wasn't used in our scores.

The survey portion was a waste of time. It said I have 20% stress from the workplace and I don't even have a job right now. :uhoh21:

Our school made us take the written version (wish we would have had the computer one)

I scored a 96 composite, 99th percentile without any study

On the math, you can usually form an equation to get the answer though you still need to understand the structure of the problem.

Example: 5 is ___% of 20

This is really a simple algebra equation: 20x=5, where x equals percent

To get x by its self, divide both sides by 20, and x = 5/20

x = .25, move the decimal place over to the right 2 places and you get 25%.

A good number of problems seemed to be structured like this.

For the reading, one of the answers always looked more obvious than the others. For main idea of a passage, it's usually the one that is not specific. For example, If the reading was over the hands it would be like this:

a. Hands have fingers

b. Hands can flex in several directions

c. Hands grasp objects

d. Hands are a mechanical tool used in many ways

A, B, and C are specifically talking about 1 component of the hand - it's not broad enough. D, however, covers a main idea that includes all the other answers (it's a mechanical tool because it has fingers, flexes, and grasps).

The purpose questions were a bit difficult to determine but they work in the same way.

Hopes this gives anyone a better idea of what to expect - I went in really not knowing what would be on the test other than some math and reading. I did not know there were study guides online and didn't want to pay/didn't have time to receive the study guide from the company.

If you can get ahold of a study guide that has percentages, fractions, ratios, and simple algebraic equations you should be fine.

For the reading, try to look beyond the question at what the test is really asking.

Good luck anyone that is taking the test - I fared pretty well and my GPA is a lot to be desired.

I agree with you. You must've had the same test as I did, but we didn't do the written part or the science (which I really wanted to do!). I bought a so-called NET study guide that wasn't similiar at all to the test I took. The book that helped me with the math was Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies. That book helped me solve the problems on testpreview.com and other websites that were posted in this thread.

[HappyMeNow]

I'm confused. Mochabean, you took a the NET right?

From my understanding. NET only has math and reading sections. There are also stress level and reading speed, but only math and reading counts. THere are no sceince questions.

Right?

[cooliegirl]

thats correct pandaluck, only the math and read counts.

[hg09]

You may get science questions depending on your school. Some may look at them but mine doesn't - they're not included in the composite score. They were A&P, biology, cellular biology, and chemistry questions.