Exit Hesi

I have yet to take hesi. and we have to pass to graduate school. I dont know what to expect, pointers would be WONDERFUL!

I take mine on April 30th, so I am no help. Have you studied from the HESI study guide? I bought it and it seems to be helpful. Good luck all!

skittles... does your school offer a hesi review course?

mine did, a mandatory one for almost three hundred bucks.. as long as you went to the class you could graduate.. otherwise make a 900 or above on hesi 3.. needless to say.. i went to the class and still didn't pass the stupid hesi!!

i did however pass the NCLEX a month later.

I just took my HESI yesterday .... and passed with a 1075! We need 850 to pass to graduate, but you have three tries. I used the HESI book and did all of the questions on the CD, including the 150 pharmacology ones! I think that helped me. I also used Saunders - both the book and the CD (I did all of the questions on the CD too!) It was alot of questions but I think it helped. It was hard - GOOD LUCK!

jamiejay

AIT testing site, the ones that proctor the HESI, have sample tests that you can purchase to gauge how you will do. I took 3 of them & they were VERY close to the tests I practiced on the week before. We also needed an 850 to pass, 2 of us scored above 1150, 5 scored in the 900's and the other 3 in our class failed it all 3 times offered.

Actually, HESI is an Elsevier product, not ATI product. There may be NCLEX type tests at the ATI site, but HESI is another testing service.

Sorry about the misunderstanding there. ATI proctored all of our HESI testing, did not realize it was product of another company. Either way, ATI site has great practice tests for the HESI.

Most people who comment about the HESI (in general) on allnurses have scores in the high 1000s. I don't know if people are embellishing or what.

I do know, at my school we had to make at least a 900 on the exit exam to pass and graduate. Most of the class had to use the retake attempts. (3 total).

I studied the HESI review book, Saunders, and...did not crack a book the morning of the test. The more questions you do prior to testing the better. At this point it's not about learning the material so much as applying the material.

Good luck!

I have to take the hesi in a couple of weeks. This is my first semester of school and they told us there will be a lot of things on it that the will not know. Is there a website with a test on it to help me with questions?

Thanks

Our class took the HESI in March, we take the Arnett soon. We had about a 50% pass rate (over 850), those who didn't pass have to do the practise tests our school subscribes to on Medpubs - maybe check to see if you can subscribe to it or if your school does?

There were things on the test I didn't know, but for those I used the tips that we have been taught . . .

figure out what the question is asking - and watch out for negative anwers - like which you don't do, which needs more teaching, etc.

don't read more into the question than is there - don't make the patient sicker than they are

eliminate any wrong answers and then choose between what is left

look for qualifiers - always, never, etc - those answers are probably not the right one

look for the answer that is really different - that may be it

if all else fails - go with the longest answer

Simple - but it does help, I scored pretty high. You might Google "test taking strategies" and see if you can come up with any more tips to help with the questions that you really dont know. Also, do all the practise questions you can to get you in the right mind set.

HTH

Sunny

We take the HESI on May 5th! Then at the end of the quarter we have the HESI review?! Make sense? I didn't think so.

jules

We have to take HESI after each course (Psych, Peds, AHI). I have passed all but the one after foundations, the first one. Our school has us hooked into this website called medspub. I swear by it. That is the only studying for HESI that I do and I consistently score above 1000 each time. Last time I scored 1150. PS I get mostly low 80's in class, which is still a C but atleast it's passing.