How Hard Is The HESI Admission Assessment Test

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Hello, Everyone!!!!

I Go take my HESI test soon and i was wondering is it really that hard? I have the study guide and I have been studying like a dog! lol and also I ordered Medical Terminology For Dummies, which hasent gotten here yet but will soon! Am Just A little worried about this test because if you fail twice you cant take it for another year so please help me ?

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I just took the HESI a few months ago. I didn't find it that hard. BUT, definitly study the material given in the study guide. I figured I wouldn't have to study that much, but when I opened the study guide I found out there were things I needed to brush up on. A few other people who told me the book looked easy, and they didn't study "because they knew these things already" didn't pass it.

So just a heads up, if you study the book (and I only studied a few hours a night for a week) you will be fine. Also, take your time when you take it!

Hope this helps :)

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Specializes in ICU, Intermediate Care, Progressive Care.

I had a thread about this a while back and I got a lot of good information, then after I passed the test (with all 90%+ in the areas I needed!) I gave advice to the next people. You might want to look it over.

HESI Questions Encouragement Needed! - Nursing for Nurses

Also there are a number of threads on the form about the HESI Admissions Assessment, but watch out, because there are a lot of people talking about the HESI EXIT exam, which confused me for quite a while! :)

Good luck on the exam! I didn't find it super difficult, but make sure you can do your basic math functions without a calculator, because while many people on the forums have taken it with a calculator built in, my version of the test didn't have one and we had to do everything by hand!

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Hello, Thanks Alot! am studying like 5-6 hours a day trying to remember all of these things... also is the grammar really hard and what is the math part mostly of for example, Fractions, Ratios ect Thanks!

God Bless!

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Specializes in ICU, Intermediate Care, Progressive Care.

The grammar part was not hard for me, because I'm naturally very good at writing/grammar/etc. but if English is your second language or if you were never very good at to begin with, I recommend learning basic punctuation use, ESPECIALLY when to use apostrophes ("that book is hers" NOT "that book is her's"; "the dog's dead" NOT "the dogs dead"), how to pluralize words, and words that are spelled similarly but mean something very different ("accept" vs "except"; Their / There / They're) etc.

As for math, the study guide is pretty good about the math. You need to KNOW KNOW KNOW how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, AND how to do these same operations with fractions and decimals. There was one Roman Numeral question on mine, and about five military time questions on mine, so they do pop up. I'm naturally not very good with math, so I studied hard on these and got a 93, I believe, on the math.

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I found the math easy. I will agree with the post above me study fractions, ratios, and military time (they came up the most when I was testing). I found the easiest thing with grammar, was to keep re-reading the sentence in my head as if I were speaking aloud to someone. Know the difference between two, to, too & your, you're & there, their, they're etc. The vocabulary part wasn't too bad, but definitly if you have the study guide study the terms in there! (I found this is where most of my fellow testers failed)

Good luck!! :o

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Specializes in ICU, Intermediate Care, Progressive Care.

About the vocabulary part: Apparently a ton of the people at my school haven't done well on the vocab either--so much so that the nursing school says they only have to have a 70 grade in it instead of the 80 required for everything else. Personally I found it very easy, but I've taken a Medical Terminology course and I'm good with vocabulary in general and determining a word's meaning from context, so I know that other people without those advantages might find it difficult.

To the OP: I would suggest studying the terms given in the study guide book, and maybe get some flashcards? You might try Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy! Amazon.com: Medical Terminology Made Incredibly Easy! (Incredibly Easy! Series) I've found the "made incredibly easy" series to be very well-written and, indeed, easy. :D

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I also have to possibly take this test (I will probably apply to this school but have to check it out further, but it requires the HESI A2 (same thing?) and the others require the NET)

IF I HAVE TO GET A 70 THEN HOW HARD IS THAT? DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW HIGH IT GOES? :)

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Specializes in ICU, Intermediate Care, Progressive Care.

HESI A2 is the same thing, yes. But a 70 is only what was required for my particular nursing school, def. check out where you want to go and see 1) what sections of the test are required and 2) what score you have to get on them all. All scores are % out of 100.

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I live in Texas, seems like in some states its all the same test required...but I have seen mainly 2 tests at different schools the one in San Antonio asks for the NET and the one in Temple which is closer to me asks for the HESI A2...

So do you think I should get a study guide that has information on Nursing Entrance Exams in general? Or get one for each test? :confused:

(the one in Temple with the HESI you have to get min of 70)

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