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?

[AggieNurse2B]

Oh, I wish I had some words of advice for you. The test, in my opinion, was strange. If I were you, I would just study the study guide. Almost more importantly, get plenty of rest the night before and have a snack before you go in so you're not hungry. You can't go in there with nerves!

Good luck! I'll be thinking about you! :redbeathe

[kungfu_panda]

No, my NET test was all about the history of microorganisms, the differences between nocturnal people and "morning" people (I'm SO nocturnal it's not even funny, by the way!), and anatomy of the ear. 33 questions in 30 minutes, and I don't think anyone in the room finished it. I did finish, but I don't feel good about since I had no time to go back and check any of my answers.

My test was exactly the same too! I just took it yesterday and I think I completely failed the reading comprehension. Some of the questions were so confusing and I don't function very well that early in the morning. I couldn't finish it either. When the proctor announced that there were 5 minutes remaining, everybody went "what the f***" I wish there were more math questions than reading...

[AggieNurse2B]

If it makes you feel any better, I was SURE I had failed the reading part, too. But I didn't! So hang in there this next week, and take heart. It sucks for everyone.

I thought the test was awful--Not awful as in "hard," but more awful as in "worthless."

[ley6451]

For the reading comprehension, which reading passage did you thought was hard and struggled with. Was it the History of Microorganism, Nocturnal/Diurnal (Night/Day people), or the anatomy of the ear?

I didn't complete the test last time, so I wanted to know if the ear passage was hard compared to the others.

Also, when it comes to inference and predicting outcome questions.. how do you attack those? Do you read the question and just skim the paragraph? I've been struggling with those.

Thanks for your help! :)

[yasy21]

i just found an awesome website to study the comp part of the test hope this helps!!!

http://college.cengage.com/devenglish/resources/reading_ace/students/

[blessed1369]

hello santos!!

I know you are a very helpful and highly informative person, do you know anything about the hesiA2 entrance or a website i can use to study, i need to review some chemistr and maths for my admission test. its the hesitest. thanks in advance

[AggieNurse2B]

For the reading comprehension, which reading passage did you thought was hard and struggled with. Was it the History of Microorganism, Nocturnal/Diurnal (Night/Day people), or the anatomy of the ear?

I didn't complete the test last time, so I wanted to know if the ear passage was hard compared to the others.

Also, when it comes to inference and predicting outcome questions.. how do you attack those? Do you read the question and just skim the paragraph? I've been struggling with those.

Thanks for your help! :)

I thought the ear one was the easiest. But it's the last one so many didn't have time to finish it! If you get presented with this particular test again, I would flip to the end and do the ear one first. But it is long. You won't have time to thoroughly read it.

I read the questions and skim the answers before I ever lay eyes on the paragraph. You can give yourself a big hint on the main idea questions by reading the first and last sentences of each paragraph. And you have to be really careful on the inference questions NOT to choose the answer that is literally stated in the paragraph. The right choice is one in which you have to draw a conclusion or sort of "assume."

[2bNurseLove419]

I definatly agree with aggienurse. Make sure you dont pick an inference answer that is already stated in the paragraph. Then it wouldn't be inferred!

[TheFuture09]

The NET test can be done, take some time and study like you want it. The only thing i had a problem with was timing, otherwise the questions itself are not to much to hard. Make sure you work on your time managment skills of questions before taking the test. Good LUck all.

[Amanda1985]

I just took the NET and it was on paper...seems other people are taking it on computer?

Well it wasn't as hard as I thought. I actually had time to review all the math and reading questions.

There was 30 math and 33 reading questions.

My question is which scores do they use to get the composite score?

We also had to take a science portion, test taking skills, stress level, etc.

[jabraham99]

I just took the NET and it was on paper...seems other people are taking it on computer?

Well it wasn't as hard as I thought. I actually had time to review all the math and reading questions.

There was 30 math and 33 reading questions.

My question is which scores do they use to get the composite score?

We also had to take a science portion, test taking skills, stress level, etc.

They use the reading and math portion to get a composite score. Do you remember what your reading passages were about. Can you offer any advice. Such as did you look at the questions first and then read the passage? Any help would be appreciated. I am taking mine next Thursday.

[Amanda1985]

They use the reading and math portion to get a composite score. Do you remember what your reading passages were about. Can you offer any advice. Such as did you look at the questions first and then read the passage? Any help would be appreciated. I am taking mine next Thursday.

My readings were about nocturnal/day people, the anatomy of the ear, and the history of microorganisms.

Well my advice is to skim over the questions first to see what they are asking for and then read the passage.

I thought the passages were hard to read and follow. The passage+questions that was the least difficult was probably the nocturnal/day people passage. I'd say the hardest was the history of microorganisms. There was one question about the history of microorganisms that I could not figure out, I even went back and re-read and still couldn't figure it out!

For the math portion I did the easy questions first. If I had trouble doing a problem I would just skip it and then I later came back and finished it. The math wasn't hard, but when you only 30 minutes to do 30 questions then it's like a time crunch. I was suprised how fast I finished and then had time to go back and double check.

I don't know my score yet, but I think I did ok.

Good luck