HESI: March 30, 2006

Hi Mercedes, here's a copy of the reply that I posted on the other HESI thread:

Oh my goodness, don't pay attention to the scores on that disk! My classmates and I all had the book and disk to study by, and we were all having trouble scoring higher than in the 70ish percentile according to the disk's scoring. Well, we all took the HESI exit exam in January, and we all passed it with a class average percentile above 90.

The disk is good for practice, but the questions are all weighted equally, while the "real" exam apparently has different penalties for questions missed based on how difficult the questions are judged to be.

The HESI hints have been helpful to me on the past exams.

My recommendation is to throw the HESI book out the window. No, really. My school used the HESI book for study one year, and had a very low pass rate. The second year (my class) we prepared using regular NCLEX books (Saunders and Lippincotts) and we had a 95% pass rate. Those that used HESI book only had a 60% pass rate.

You can also do case studies online at the HESI website, those helped me.

Hey,

Should I do just the Saunders disk or the book? Did they focus more on interventions or content like what diseases are?