NLN PAX RN test - new to the board

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hi all. i am new to the board. i live just north of chicago. i am going to take the nln in august. any suggestions on studying? i am getting the book that is suggested at the nln site. i read a post somewhere that says that there are questions about electricity and ohms?

any advice? thoughts on the test if you have taken it.

thanks!!

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Hey there! theres a great thread with a sticky on this forum devoted to NLN. It has scores, tips, and decription of the exam!

Good luck!

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i can't seem to find the NLN thread in this forum that will help me study for the exam ... can anyone please help me? kind thanks

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me either, but i got another reply that told me to go to the sticky that says 'nln results'. i have found that it talks more about scores than anything else. if you find something differnt, let me know. they mention a few things here and there, like there are a lot of electricity questions on the exam.

flipping through the pages makes me feel like this!

suesue70

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i wish i knew WHAT electricity questions, hah, hah. perhaps more people will see and respond to this thread. crossing my fingers.

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i posted a message in the thread about the NLN scores, and one gal replied:

Well i suck most terrible at math, and i found these two books called No Fear Math and Painless Fractions helped me a whole lot with understanding the basics. I still didn't do so terrific on the math section although i studied my butt off for it, but i think that if i didn't put all that time and energy into it i'd have done much worse.

Just practise timeing yourself a lot, it will come in handy for the test and remember that although your practise test says 60 questions for Vocab/reading comp and Science and 40 for math, remember on the actual test its 80 questions each for Vocab/reading comp and 54 questions for math. A couple of people ran into some trouble with that and they were totally devestated. On the actual test, keep your eyes on the time, you come to something you don't know, KEEP IT MOVING, come back to it at the end. and NEVER EVER leave anything blank, put something even if you don't know it. Thats all ive got. Pretty much of summary of everyone's advice on this thread.

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we need a new sticky, one that is for prenursing students preparing to take the nln! that would be helpful. i think i am just going to start a new thread asking for all who are in the process of studying for the nln.

oh, i heard that the book that is suggested, i forgot the title, but it's around 29.00, is great, but lacking in vocab and electrical information. i went on amazon and typed in nln and a bunch of books came up, but there were so many and going through all the reviews was awful.

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we need a new sticky, one that is for prenursing students preparing to take the nln! that would be helpful. i think i am just going to start a new thread asking for all who are in the process of studying for the nln.

oh, i heard that the book that is suggested, i forgot the title, but it's around 29.00, is great, but lacking in vocab and electrical information. i went on amazon and typed in nln and a bunch of books came up, but there were so many and going through all the reviews was awful.

this is the book, the nln puts this book out, its the same format as the real test.

http://www.amazon.com/review-guide-entrance-exam-pre-entrance/dp/0763724866/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1499131-5204831?ie=utf8&s=books&qid=1175715314&sr=8-1

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i posted a message in the thread about the NLN scores, and one gal replied:

Well i suck most terrible at math, and i found these two books called No Fear Math and Painless Fractions helped me a whole lot with understanding the basics. I still didn't do so terrific on the math section although i studied my butt off for it, but i think that if i didn't put all that time and energy into it i'd have done much worse.

Just practise timeing yourself a lot, it will come in handy for the test and remember that although your practise test says 60 questions for Vocab/reading comp and Science and 40 for math, remember on the actual test its 80 questions each for Vocab/reading comp and 54 questions for math. A couple of people ran into some trouble with that and they were totally devestated. On the actual test, keep your eyes on the time, you come to something you don't know, KEEP IT MOVING, come back to it at the end. and NEVER EVER leave anything blank, put something even if you don't know it. Thats all ive got. Pretty much of summary of everyone's advice on this thread.

that would be lil ole me, i know its not much but i hope it helps and good luck on the test.

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I took it two week ago - the test is probably the hardest test I've ever taken. You have no idea whether or not you are doing well. You have no idea whether you are studying the right things. I would consider myself to have a rather well developed vocabulary and the vocabulary portion in the practice book is rather high brow. WAY above my level for most of it.

I will say, that on the actual test, I felt rather confident about the vocabulary portion - scored very well. It's not AS hard as the practice book, there are about 10-15 questions that pertain to words I don't think anyone in the last 100 years actually uses.

On to the math, I thought math would be the worst part. Turns out that as long as you are studying the book and most of it makes sense, you should be okay. I'll bump the post about timing yourself. I had two questions left when time had expired. Just circled something and hoped for the best.

The science turned out to be the section that kicked my ass. It is not intuitive. It is not something that we have - as nursing students - studied. There are a lot of physics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, physics, some more physics, some electricity stuff. This was definitely hard. Read the book, read it again, read it some more. Get a good nights sleep before you go in and if your school offers a prep class, take it.

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i can only recommend what worked (98th percentile) for me ... take each and every one of the tests in the book as many times as it takes for you to get them all 100% right. if you don't understand some of the electric or science questions, etc, then do research. math you should know 100% and if not, get a tutor. science is too comprehensive to know every possible topic, so just know the stuff in the book 100% in case you get (and you will) similar type questions. i took 2 solid weeks of 8 hrs/day studying and aced it. but i need all those points to get into my college (florida). after test was done i thought i had bombed (due to science) but ended up scoring high, thank god for percentiles. in the interim, try to do extra reading ie Newsweek, New York Times, anything, and always look up every single word you don't understand in the dictionary. surprisingly, reading comp - esp vocab - was rather tricky. math was the easiest section for sure. final thought - just be sure you know that book inside out. write your answers on separate pieces of paper and score yourself - and DEF time yourself. you will def be rushed. but go over and over the exams in book till you know them inside out and you'll be great. compared to the actual nursing program ... that test is a breeze!

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Whoa all that sounds really intese....I'm preparing for the test...I haven't registered for it though cuz I don't feel confident nor prepared to take it ...and I personally don't want to throw $100 away. I actually bought the book the NLN site reccomends and I've been working on my math but that is seriously my worst subject so it takes me a very long time to solve the practice questions.

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