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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?
You can do it witcher7. Although I am not a mother of four, I do work full time and am
also taking three classes. It was really hard to study for the net but I read on
my way to school( on the train), at lunch breaks, and I stayed up late. Do whatever you can to increase your grade. Good luck
I first of all would find out EXACTLY WHAT PART of the test scores are used by each school you are going to apply to. My school just looked at the Reading Comp. and Math scores, that was all! The rest of the exam was a total waste of time and I could have walked out of the exam after taking my two needed aspects and it would have had no effect on my ranking in admissions at my school.
Once I found out what to focus on thats all I focused on. Just focus on those needed areas to study and do not worry about what else is on the exam if your school does not worry or use those scores!
I did many different types of google searches on this topic. I found tons of web pages and practice tests for free. Try to avoid the pay sites, they are usually crap.
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Critical thinking skills is supposedly what is REALLY being looked for by many of these exams and schools. If you have the time do some research into critical thinking skills and, how critical thinking skills are used in these exams doing so should help, it sure did for me!
When I figured out much of this exam was about seeing how much you could "SEE" into a problem; or see the differences, or for the ONE SINGLE item that was different and more inclusive or more exclusive than all the other answers, even if only by a small percentage, then that is what the test writers were looking for in the correct exam answer to their exam question.
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These tests do not usually show how much general education or knowledge you have at all!!! They are not meant to do that.
Many are SUPPOSED to show HOW you think! NOT, WHAT YOU ALL READY KNOW!
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YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW WHAT THEY SAY in the test, NOT what YOU all ready know about something. They WILL want a correct answer from THEIR test information provided from THEIR test and NOT the real answer from life in the real world!
This point was made very clear over and over both by the company that writes and owns the NET and by other exams I found out.
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(I do not totally buy this idea that a secret, privately made and controlled, supposedly standardized, insanely high stress 3-hour long test, taken with a packed class room of very stressed out people, all taking the same stressed out 3-hour exam (my test version was 3 years old BTW!) can actually do such a great job of actually seeing how well you think in reality. But testing mass numbers of desperate students this way sure does make millions of dollars for the test making companies! Maybe I should work for them!)
By the way, Not all schools waste their time with such antiquated ideas of how a single pre-exam proposes that students with scores above a certain percentage point on a single very high stress exam will make the best nurses someday anyway!
Quite often these tests are just one more tool to lower the over whelming amount of students applying for the too few seats in nursing schools....
Thanks for all the info.
Can someone please re-post the links for the free testing guidelines.
I have the NET book and downloaded the free Practice test but I need more!!
I took the Net for the first time last year and I failed. I want to take it again in April and need all the help I can get.
Thanks!
someone pls help me!!! http://www.midland.edu/~hsd/pdf/8-net_test.pdf .... this address is not working!!!!
witcher7
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I took the NET exam and I wish I had tried your study tips csantos. I was really bummed out because I didnt do good on my math section which is my weakest subject. My study time is limited because I am mother of four and I work fulltime. Not passing my exam made me question if I could do it or not. I have another chance to take it the beginning of Dec. But I also have a final that day. Not sure what I should do? I have kinda lost my mojo on this one.