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?

[JadenRN TO BE]

can someone help me with this math problem?

Express 25/5 as a percentage

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

5/1

they can both be devided by 5

[SeaOtter]

multiply by 100

25/5 * 100/1 = 2500/5

reduce

2500/5 = 500

add the % symbol 500%

or short cut

Divide 25 by 5

25/5 = 5

move decimal 2 place to right

5.0 = 500

add % symbol

500%

I hope this helps let me know if you need anything else or dont understand.

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you can also look at it like pies the bottom number being the whole part and the top number being the number of pie pieces. so you have 25 pie pieces and each pie is made up of 5 pieces, so every 5 pieces make up 100% of a pie. well we have enough pie pieces to make 5 pies thus we have 500%.

I hope one of these help.

[JadenRN TO BE]

thanks!! i was wondering how the answer was 500%

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

sorry, i mis understood the message!

also 5 fits in 25 five times, for each time it is 100%

so there you go! 500%

another way to do it, is to lower the numbers so it is easier to calculate

25/5 = 5/1

5/1 = 5 wholes which are 500% (remeber 100% for every whole!)

[SeaOtter]

now if you spun that around to 5/25 that is 20% because you only have part of the pie pieces and at first that is what your mind is thinking with 25/5 and when you get the answer 5.

You can always remember this anytime the top number is bigger then the bottom it will be a % greater then 100 if the top number is smaller then the bottom is will be less then 100 (i.e. like 20%) if they are equal means it is 1 or 100%

I am glad this helped.

[lmb13]

great post...

Just took the test. Need help with

#36. 2/4 = (?)% x 2/5

#47. solve for x :24 is 60% of x

THANKS!

[SeaOtter]

great post...

Just took the test. Need help with

#36. 2/4 = (?)% x 2/5

#47. solve for x :24 is 60% of x

THANKS!

well lets start with #36 2/4 = x% x 2/5

first lets change that percentage sign to something that isnt confusing

x/100 is the same as x% so now we have

2/4 = x/100 * 2/5

now we need to get that 2/5 on the other side by dividing both sides by 2/5 so now we have

2/4 / 2/5 = x/100

now to divide we multiply by the recipricol of 2/5

2/4 * 5/2 = x/100

10/8 = x/100

change 10/8 to a decimal by dividing 10 by 8

1.25 = x/100

now multply both sides by 100

x = 125% you can double check your answer by pluging 125% into the original question.

[SeaOtter]

great post...

Just took the test. Need help with

#36. 2/4 = (?)% x 2/5

#47. solve for x :24 is 60% of x

THANKS!

#47

solve for x:24 is 60% of x

24 = 60% * x

well lets get rid of that pesky % for now 60% is the same as saying 60/100 which is 0.6

so we now have

24 = 0.6 * x

we have to divide both sides by 0.6 to get the x by itself

24 / 0.6 = x

x = 40 and that is your answer

now we can double check by taking figuring 60% of 40 which is 40 * .6 = 24

if you have any questions let me know.

I hope this helps.

[lmb13]

thanks! i couldnt figure how to set them up... only 2 i got wrong on the practice my first time.... THANK YOU!!! i started today, i take the exam on the 17th... super nervous...

[SeaOtter]

Great job on only getting those two wrong. I hope those explanations helped. If there is any others you need explained let me know. No reason to be nervous if you have the ERI book the questions are very similar and are no harder than what is in the practice test or in the math chapter review. Good luck on the 17th. I am retaking mine on Moday to try for a haigher reading grade.

[lmb13]

i dont have the eri book... im using the stuff carlos posted...do you think this will be enough? Im gonna work on doing it quick in the next couple of weelsw... how many questions is the actual test and in how much time? math section and reading section... im concentrating my studies on math, i usually do very well with reading comp, and i will def. stufy as he suggested on the discovery site, but the math is what worries me, if you have any other tips...