Almost entire class bombed HESI

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Our class just took our 3rd HESI content exam, and the scores were somewhat abysmal. There were quite a few people who scored in the 600 range and most were in the low to mid 700 range. I personally dropped almost 400 points from our last 2 HESI exams. My question is this - should we be concerned about what we learned/didn't learn this semester? There was such a dramatic drop-off that now a lot of us are panicking about being unprepared for our next semester. Despite doing so poorly on the HESI, most of us have high B to low A grades for the semester. Now we are stuck thinking, "We don't even know what we don't know!" So should we be freaking out now, or not?!

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Our class just took our 3rd HESI content exam, and the scores were somewhat abysmal. There were quite a few people who scored in the 600 range and most were in the low to mid 700 range. I personally dropped almost 400 points from our last 2 HESI exams. My question is this - should we be concerned about what we learned/didn't learn this semester? There was such a dramatic drop-off that now a lot of us are panicking about being unprepared for our next semester. Despite doing so poorly on the HESI, most of us have high B to low A grades for the semester. Now we are stuck thinking, "We don't even know what we don't know!" So should we be freaking out now, or not?!

Have you talked to your instructor(s) about your concern? I don't know what you learned or didn't learn and I have no idea what your program will require you to know next semester. I found HESI dramatically different from NCLEX, though. I thought HESI was much easier. Some thought HESI was much harder.

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The teachers don't seem to think it's a big deal. They basically said you are all doing well, don't worry about the HESI. My concern is that the content we were taught didn't line up with what the HESI expected us to learn. Like I said, this is the 3rd HESI we have taken and the first time where everyone basically walked out saying "we never learned 90% of that content!"

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The internet ate my comment, so if it shows up twice--my apologies!

What semester are you in? Med-surg? I am in my second semester for my ADN program which is med-surg. I am curious to know how HESIs are administered from program to program, like if they're the same test? We only take one at the end of the semester that pretty much counts as our cumulative exam and our class did extremely well (mid 900s even 1000s). The questlions were weird..but it seemed we covered a lot of what was on the test. Maybe a handful of questions on content we didnt learn

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