Exit HESI exam quirks. Material on test but not in HESI review book. (No specifics)

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Has anyone whos taken an exit HESI exam recently gotten questions on their exam which weren't in the HESI/Evolve study book in any form or fashion. I have found two unless i overlooked them somehow. One is a pediatric disease and one is more of a fundamentals issue.

Unfortunately, nobody seems to hear us. I understand that they want to ensure that their schools have a high pass rate so they keep their accreditation. However, I do not agree with the amount of stress that students go through taking this insane exam. I feel there should be at least another option available, especially when you look around and you notice students that usually make A's sit with you to retake the hesi for the fourth or fifth time. We have right now potential nurses sitting in classrooms trying to pass the hesi, while many of them doing Kaplan as a secondary source and already received from Kaplan the " good to go for Nclex". This seems to be just ....wrong. No wonder we have a nursing shortage if we have so many students still seated for hesi, some of them may never even see the Nclex and their could have been the chance that they would have passed.:lol_hitti

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Hesi Help....I have failed the hesi three times...but each time my score has increased but not to the 900 that we need in order to take nclex...I am mentally exhausted, now we have to take a remediation course and they will be using exit exam as our final grade.....I just dont know what to do..I cannot focus anymore on my books..I guess I am just a lil discouraged...But with God all things are possible...Does anyone have topics or subtopics for version four or version five? .....:uhoh3:

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go to your faculty people and ask them if you can take a battery of HESI tests under real and live testing conditions.

Ask to take the following HESI tests within a couple day period:

Critical Thinking

Medical-Surgical 1 and 2

Pharmacology

Critical Care

Foundations/fundamentals

Maternity/Pediatrics Combination exam

Mental Health Exam

Most of the tests cost $21 to $28 each and typically only take an hour and a half to do.

You can have the faculty people call your evolve sales rep and tell them that you want to take these tests as practice. If you do a battery of HESI practice tests it will hopefully be enough to pull you through.

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well, Im back. No luck on my 3rd HESI !:crying2: Now I have to audit my lecture class which of the 3rd semester for the new upper class, and we have to have a passing score to qualify for our fourth HESI! Our nursing director gave those who didn't pass this test again and didn't have their LVN, to finish of a summer class that had started back in June, to go and try for our LVN license. I thought it was a pretty good oppurtunity considering it's only 2 weeks that we have to finish:nuke:. Although it was pretty embarrassing to eat lunch today and have one of our fellow class mates who has her RN now, eating at the next table while we sit at an oppisit table still in student uniforms :crying2:.

I don't know what my future has in store for me , but what I do know is that I am so exhausted of school and so tired of being embarrassed by facing former students and teachers who talk behind your back. It takes a lot of courage to keep on going, but it's not easy. what to do?:confused:

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Dear busy5kids,

I know this is probably the hardest test you will ever encounter...but remember to be humble. I know it must have been difficult to see your classmate with that badge you want so much, but if you were truly friends that won't matter. Dont focuse on the negative and look forwards of what you have given the opportunity to do. I know it must be hard but you will perservere! Take advantage of your choices and kick out bad feelings, otherwise you will never move on. Positive thoughts, althought hard at this point, attrack positive things.

Keep working hard, your time will come.

E

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This thread is scary. A whooping 950 YIKES! Somebody also wrote they only needed 825. Our school needed 870 and I thought that was high already. 50% of our class scored between 870 and 949. Right off the bat, half of my class failed already =O

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I'm confused as to why each school has different passing scores. You mean if Sally took the HESI at ABC college who requires 850, got an 825.... she should fail even though Mary passed with an 825 because XYZ College only requires 800? If it is a standardized test, why isn't there a standardized passing score?

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This test is not a requirement from the State, rather it is a test that is implimented by the school and depending on the school and how high the bar they want to set the test they decide, because it is in the end their pass-rate and prediction in how many may pass or not pass the Nclex. In my opinion the Hesi should be taken out all together,because after testing for the Nclex, I can not even see why we do not use Kaplan, which is so close to Nclex, unlike the Hesi, which does not even come close to the Nclex.

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Do you have any Q&A from the hesi exam v2? Thank You

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Is this hesi scam utilized nationwide now?

Ridiculous!

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OMG reading all of this scares me, yes as far as i know its pretty much a standard across the board to take this stupid HESI! At my school we have to get a 900, shockingly no one seems too worried, but im freaking out!

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has anyone taken the hesi recently? what version ? i took version 1.

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