I am hoping to be part of the Collin College Spring 2018 Nursing Class and I want to start a new thread where other potential students can communicate with one another. I am taking Micro this summer and plan on submitting my nursing application by the August deadline. I will be taking my PSB exam at the end of July.
Collin no longer gives potential students access to the point system used to rank students. Does anyone know what a competitive PSB score is?
I have a 3.75 for my co-requisites and I am hoping to maintain my 4.0 in my pre-requisites. Can anyone offer any insight on PSB scores?
97% verbal 82% AA(math and nonverbal got me but i still managed to score above 40% in each category) 83 %Spelling 91% RC 87% Science 97% VA . Hoping that by Gods Grace I make it this Spring. Good luck everyone.
@mavwagg and @MandM1305 Both of y'alls stats look great, especially your GPA's! Good luck to both of you! MandM, I think you turn it in to Cathleen in the Health Sciences building. I think her office is on the 3rd floor (don't quote me on that). I just turned mine in at the information session that I went to so I didn't have to make another trip out there.
No joke! I found out at the last minute that the PSB test had more slots opened, because when I initially looked into Collin, they said there would be no more PSB tests! This was the first section I took and I skipped around trying to answer as many questions as I really didn't have time to study. So I didn't do too well in the AA. I still applied anyway, but I don't think I'll fare too well!!
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The PSB is graded on a percentile. This means the test compares how you score to other students who take the test and assign you a percentage based on that. It is far more important to get the questions you do answer correct than it is to try and answer every question. Unanswered questions do not figure into the calculation Those who are taking this test for the first time or took it and didn't score as they hoped and want to take it again should keep this in mind. On this kind of test it is literally the worst strategy to fill in blanks willy-nilly and can really tank your score. I always get alarmed when I see people advising this tactic.
You are only scored on the things you finish and the amount you finish is compared to the average amount finished by all other people who have taken the test in their database and a score calculated for that. Therefore if you answer lots of questions but answer lots of them incorrectly, you score lower than those who didn't answer near as many questions as you but got the majority of them right. As an example..... if you get an 85% on the reading section it does not mean you got 85% of your answers correct in the reading second. It means you scored higher than 85% of all the others in the database who took that same exam, considering how many questions you answered and how many of those answers were correct.
Hi everyone! Finishing up my application for Spring 2018. I sooooo badly hope to get in! Here are my stats:
Prereq GPA: 4.0 (micro is "in progress" so I hope that doesn't hurt me too bad)
Coreq GPA: 3.5
PSB: AA (46) SP (88) RC (92) NS (95) VAI (88)
AA section killed me lol definitely over thought it and panicked. I do have a previous bachelors degree so I hope that helps me. Good luck to all of you!
Coreq GPA: 4.0 (Although I have to take two of them during the program because of the G.I Bill)
Overall GPA: 4.0
PSB Scores: (AA-85) (SP-92) (RC-92) (NS-97) (VA-94) - I scored under 40% on math, but scored really high on the other two sections in AA. I should have answered faster :/
@JMoore90 Yes AA aptitude is a section which includes verbal, nonverbal, and math, and you made well above the 40% in that section so your stats are looking very competitive!
So I didn't do too well in the AA. I still applied anyway, but I don't think I'll fare too well!!
MavWagg, ADN, BSN
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4.0 science GPA, 3.75 support GPA
97% verbal 82% AA(math and nonverbal got me but i still managed to score above 40% in each category) 83 %Spelling 91% RC 87% Science 97% VA . Hoping that by Gods Grace I make it this Spring. Good luck everyone.