National University - Cohort 61 -SD

[DD_futurenurse]

Hi,

I wanted to start this for those who are applying to Cohort 61. Has anyone been to a recent nursing info session where they've gone over anything about the newly added interview component?

Thanks!

[MisterEdwino]

On 7/22/2019 at 4:25 PM, Yougotacceptedrn said:

Hi,

I got an 83.3%. I literally thought I got 100% on the math portion which totally through me off when I got my score. I'm going to give it one more try and if I don't get an 86% or higher then not sure what I'll do. I've given this my absolute all and just don't know how to study for this anymore ? So nice of you to check in, Did you take yours again?

Sounds like you know the material, I would recommend that you learn some test taking strategy on how to break down the questions and to narrow down to the two best answers, and also read those math questions carefully so you know exactly what the question is actually asking. Some of those math questions are tricky. I scored 100 in the math, but only because I went back and re-read the questions and realized I did not interpret correctly what the questions were asking. Good luck!

[Aph12]

Hi everyone, glad there’s a posting on this. I scored a 82.7 on my teas and my gpa is 3.6 so I’m a bit worried and contemplating on whether or not I should retake the teas. The past couple of cohorts been extremely competitive! I’m so glad so far this cohort doesn’t seem as competitive as the past cohort. Can everyone share their scores if you don’t mind? This will give others ideas on how comparative the cohort will be. Thanks

[Aph12]

Also what has helped me with the teas are:

videos on YouTube

mometrix

ATI book

Kelly files for English

Brandon craft for math.

And if you wanna splurge a bit, it’s a bit pricy but ATI prep package through their website is very helpful.

[robinarackley]

On 7/26/2019 at 7:04 AM, Yougotacceptedrn said:

robinarackley-How did you test go?

I got an 87.3 the second time I took it! it was bare minimun of what I wanted and since its on average with the last cohort i decided to stick with that score and not taken it again.

[robinarackley]

13 hours ago, Aph12 said:

Hi everyone, glad there’s a posting on this. I scored a 82.7 on my teas and my gpa is 3.6 so I’m a bit worried and contemplating on whether or not I should retake the teas. The past couple of cohorts been extremely competitive! I’m so glad so far this cohort doesn’t seem as competitive as the past cohort. Can everyone share their scores if you don’t mind? This will give others ideas on how comparative the cohort will be. Thanks

My scores are

TEAS: 87.7

GPA: 3.77

[Aph12]

that’s an awesome score!

[robinarackley]

Thank you! It was the second time I took it! Did you decide if you are going to retake the teas yet?

[Aph12]

I would probably retake one more time. I think you have an extremely high chance of getting in. My friend got in with a 83 on the teas and a 3.8 gpa. I’m not sure about her essay but since national is going to be interviews now I think that works out better for a lot of people.

[robinarackley]

I think its a great change too. Do you think they will go easy on everyone since it's their first time doing this, or do you think it'll be a pretty tough grading rubric?

Thank you for the encouragemet. I had a friend In my A&P class who has a 3.7 gpa and got a 96 on the teas and that really intimidated me, thats why I decided to take mine again after i got an 80

[Aph12]

I’m not exactly sure, I hope they go easy on us since it’s the first cohort that’s doing interview. I’m wondering if it’s like a panel interview. What did you use to improve on your score? Was it similar the second time around?

[robinarackley]

At the pre nursing forum they said you'll be interviewed by two people, and the average between the two scores will be your final score. Similar to the essay where two people graded it and they took the average of the two scores.

First I went on the ati website and did the test review, where it shows you what you need to work on. And I only studied that stuff. I used the yellow ati secrets book and just did practice tests and looked online for grammar worksheets since that was my main area i needed to improve. I went from a %70 to a 90% in that category. I also joined all the TEAS facebook groups and people posted practice question and then said, oh yeah this was on my test. So I would save those question and make sure i l knew them.

I had a different test the second time around, but some people the get same one twice. The first test I took was mostly about life science and scienfic method and for math it was word problems and geometry, the second test there was hardly any questions on that. It was mostly about endocrine and nervous system and almsot all fractions and percentage conversions.

[Yougotacceptedrn]

So just making sure, to have everything complete for the application we need:

-To attend a pre-nursing workshop

-Send in our TEAS score

-Online application

Is there anything else we need to do??