Best advice for taking teas

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Hello everyone,

I am a new to this website. From looking at all of the student discussions i have noticed how informing and helpful this community is.

I will be taking the teas exam soon and i would sincerly appreciate if anyone could give advice.

Does anyone recommend any specific websites to study from for the exam.

Did the website benefit you for the exam?

Also, how are the timings for each section?

Did you feel on the edge of your seat, for the entire test. How was the experience? :)

Any advice would be great.

Thanks!!!

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I took it last month. I studied for about 8 weeks using testpreppreview.com, chem4kids.com, physics4kids.com, and an excellent test prep book, McGraw Hill's Nursing School Entrance Exams. I checked it out of the library. You can buy it off of Amazon as well.

Also read reading everything on this website was extremely helpful! There is a TEAS test sticky that will also give you the breakdown of time limits for each section.

The only thing that was not stressed, was that you have a lot of time. I would have done better if I not realized that in the first section, which was reading comprehension. The timer is at the top of the screen that gives you how many minutes you have left. I didn't know that up front.

Good luck!

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know what structure keeps bacteria and mucous out of the lungs. Know your elements. Dont spend too much time on A&P because there were maybe two questions on it. Know rocks, clouds, tectonic plates. Know ionic bonds.

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Study English well like check out rules for punctuation and sentence structure. All the other sections are easy if you just study the ATI book well enough.

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hey everyone, i took my teas today, and i passed! i am so excited :yeah:my school requires a 72% to get in the nursing program (bsn) and i made a 74.7, so im pretty excited. my school is not so competitive, so i am most likely to get in. i studied all material online. i did not buy the ati study book, i just did not want to pay all that money for it. so i read every thread on here, and did practice test online (just google practice teas test, its free) i wanted to give my take on the test, but take it every test might be different...

math: study whole numbers, fractions and decimals (know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide), percentages, ratio and proportion, metric conversions, data interpretation, and basic algebra

overall, i believe the math was fairly easy, if you study all the info above. its straight forward. i just struggled on the metric conversions (i hate those) :p

english: punctuation, grammer, sentence structure, contextual words, and spelling

this section was very easy, that is if you can find mispelled words, and know where commas go. study all above and you will be fine. not hard at all

reading: paragraph comprehension, passage comprehension, inferences and conclusions

this section was super easy. the "stories" were not long at all, maybe a paragraph. the questions that followed asked for main ideas and such. very easy :)

science: scientific reasoning, general science, life science, chemical science, physical science, and human body science

this section was a joke! it was the hardest for me. i knew about 5 questions for sure, and made educated guesses on the others. i would know how to change degree f to degree c, and study atoms (mass and atomic number) also know the three types of rocks, tectonic plates, clouds...and be familiar with the info above. its not general, it is very much out in left field :confused:

i typed every thing above in black that came from my score sheet, so it will most likely be the same way you are tested. study study study, and good luck. feel free to ask me anything

:redbeathebrooke

(i also had the mucous question lol)

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^ dont want to sound rude but u basically said every section (besides science) was easy but ur overall was like mid 70s? how did the science bring u down that much?

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I have no idea, I made 80s-90s in the reading and english. I made 70 something in math because i suck at metric conversions. I made a 64 in the science section and yes it brought it down that much... I have no idea why. and you werent rude :)

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hello. i took the teas a couple of weeks ago, and did much better then i presumed i would have. i didn't study prior to taking the exam (as i had hoped to do); i was just too busy with classes and family. :uhoh3:

anyways, i did run out of time during the math section:eek:, but i managed to pass it. the toughest section for me was the science section--hands down. i found it to be very random:confused:. luckily for me, i had just taken bio 101 w/lab last semester, which helped me tremendously! i don't think i would have passed without that class, and surprisingly, i did very well in that section. if you feel you have a good background in science; you should do fine. i just recently went back to school a couple of years ago, and i am now finishing up an associate's degree in science (computer engineering) after eighteen years of being out of high school, so the courses i have had to take over the past couple years have helped me significantly to pass the teas no doubt.

i would recommend studying any areas of the exam that you do not feel comfortable with prior to taking the exam. look online for free assessments to find your weakness (if you have any), and then use online resources to research and study. there are so many free resources' on the web! good luck to you!:)

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Definitely keep track of your time in the math section. I am a very speedy test taker and I finished the math section with only seconds left. All of the above advice is really helpful. I totally had the same test that ^ the people above took.

I took it the TEAS on Saturday. I did not do nearly as well as I thought I did in the English/Reading sections. I knew I bombed the science section. I had to guess on MOST of the science questions. There are so few questions in the science section, which really didn't help me.

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you are lucky if your school only looks at the overall score. My school requires that each section's score be above the national average. I studied my butt off and pulled out a 91% overall. I managed to get well above average in all sections (including the science:eek: ). I do NOT reccomend going without the study manual or practice tests. I think it would be a bad decision since most if not all programs are competitive at some level. Why pay for it and spend hours taking it without studying:confused:. Glad you guys passed but I am just giving my advice to anyone who has yet to take it. Most programs want to see more than the average score. According to my school admissions, most people DO NOT pass all sections on the first try. Maybe that is due to their higher standards though. I would hate to take that thing twice...too long!

Good Luck.

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Congradulations Brooke :)

Everyone's advice will be extremely helpful for the next couple of days.

I will post back asap

hopefully i pass

thanks everyone for your support!

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