NLN PAX-RN

erica1223 · Sep 10, 2013

I am also taking it in oct I bought the book..

erica1223 · Sep 10, 2013

If you bought the book how are you doing on the practice test?

jlibers · Sep 12, 2013

I just took the NLN Pax-RN today and passed (thank god!). I'm in Illinois attempting to get into an ADN program for the Spring.

To prepare for it I used the National League for Nursing's Study Guide for RN Pre-Entrance Exam. I flipped through it a bit and then took most of the practice tests. Honestly, I was not very confident going into the actual test. I wasn't getting that great of results on the practice tests. However, just keep in mind that, for most schools, your raw scores don't matter. Most schools look at how well you did in comparison to everyone else.

I felt like I did okay on the verbal while taking it (English is definitely my strongest subject). The math portion made me nervous, and I ended up running out of time and guessed on maybe 5 questions at the end. Math is my typically my worst subject. The science portion was very difficult. When I was taking the test, I thought for sure that I was going to fail.

My scores: 94% composite percentile rank, 87% verbal percentile rank, 90% math percentile rank, & 88% science percentile rank.

I wish I had done better, but I'm just happy that I passed and can move on to dedicating my time/stress to something else!

As far as advice for each section, I don't really have any for the verbal portion. Either you will know the words or you won't. Like I said, English has always been my strongest suit and I did the worst on that part. Go figure. Math was mostly ratios, fractions, and percentages. Make sure you study those like crazy if you're not very confident with them. As far as science, the best thing to do is to know the formulas for converting temperature between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin; and all the physics formulas that you'll find in any study guide.

Let me know if I can answer any other questions, because I was searching up and down online too for advice/wisdom/etc that could have helped me!

erica1223 · Sep 12, 2013

Congrats. . Im so nervous because im not doing so great on the practice test I probably make between 65-68% and I've taken them so many times im starting to remember the questions :/

erica1223 · Sep 12, 2013

? Are the questions in the book very similar to the actual test "if not the same"?

jlibers · Sep 12, 2013

Hopefully this makes you feel better, but on the test itself my percentage of correct answers for science was 70%. Yet that still placed me at the 88th percentile rank compared to others that took the exam. So it sounds like you'll do just fine! Do you know what your school requires as far as ranking or scores to be accepted into the nursing program?

The questions on the exam were very similar to the practice tests. Verbal was right on. For math, there was a broader spectrum of questions on the practice tests than on the actual Pax exam, I thought. I just remember almost every question being about fractions, percents, or ratios, even though the practice tests had so much more than that. The science part was pretty accurate too.

erica1223 · Sep 12, 2013

My school needs a total if 96points for the the test. Math seems to be ok but having a hard time on the verbal im realizing either you know it or you dont.

16mm · Sep 12, 2013

THANK YOU! I have to take the NLN PAX-RN and TEAS V so I'm a total wreck!! I really hope studying for one is like studying for both!

erica1223 · Sep 12, 2013

I have taken the teas and failed it was really hard for me. A few years later I decided to try a different school and they require the pax I have been studying the book and find it very very similar to the teas.

FUTURENPSAM · Sep 18, 2013

I just took the NLN Pax-RN today and passed (thank god!). I'm in Illinois attempting to get into an ADN program for the Spring.
To prepare for it I used the National League for Nursing's Study Guide for RN Pre-Entrance Exam. I flipped through it a bit and then took most of the practice tests. Honestly, I was not very confident going into the actual test. I wasn't getting that great of results on the practice tests. However, just keep in mind that, for most schools, your raw scores don't matter. Most schools look at how well you did in comparison to everyone else.
I felt like I did okay on the verbal while taking it (English is definitely my strongest subject). The math portion made me nervous, and I ended up running out of time and guessed on maybe 5 questions at the end. Math is my typically my worst subject. The science portion was very difficult. When I was taking the test, I thought for sure that I was going to fail.
My scores: 94% composite percentile rank, 87% verbal percentile rank, 90% math percentile rank, & 88% science percentile rank.
I wish I had done better, but I'm just happy that I passed and can move on to dedicating my time/stress to something else!
As far as advice for each section, I don't really have any for the verbal portion. Either you will know the words or you won't. Like I said, English has always been my strongest suit and I did the worst on that part. Go figure. Math was mostly ratios, fractions, and percentages. Make sure you study those like crazy if you're not very confident with them. As far as science, the best thing to do is to know the formulas for converting temperature between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin; and all the physics formulas that you'll find in any study guide.
Let me know if I can answer any other questions, because I was searching up and down online too for advice/wisdom/etc that could have helped me!

Would you say you had enough time to finish ? How intense was it. I heard you can not use a calculator did this slow you down ?