Prep TEAS test

love_myfamily · Jan 6, 2012

Hi! I am also new and also studying for the TEAS. :) I have the ATI study guide and I am going to be using the McGraw-Hill Nursing exam book as well. I have heard that the ATI website has practice exams available for purchase that seem to be very helpful. Also, if you read through the threads posted on this site you will find a ton of information bout the TEAS.

Good luck!

janetoungtong · Jan 7, 2012

Hey everyone,
I'm new here. I am trying to get ready for the TEAS test. Would anyone know what is the best book and the best way to get ready for TEAS test?
Thank you,
Jane Toungtong

Thank you for your advice will take that.. Are you going to purchase it online version or the manual ? let's me know how is it work? I still have quite sometime.

Thank you,

Jane Toungtong

Spiffyness · Jan 7, 2012

Hi,

I posted in another thread before and said this:

"for the reading part definitely know topic sentence, summary sentences, inferences, opinion/biases. the informational reading part is self explanatory. all of it is in the ATI manual. i took the teas exam twice and the first time i totally lost track of time cause i spent too much on the reading portion. the second time i took it i did the informational stuff first and got it out of the way, then went back to the paragraph reading and i was able to finish everything in time

math is basically what ZekeMass said. fractions, percentages, there was a roman numeral question, inequalities, estimating square roots/irrational numbers. one thing that wasnt in the ATI study guide book was a squared + b squared = c squared (given 2 sides of a triangle find the last side). another thing was work rate problems (jack builds house in 3 hours, jill builds house in 8 hours, how long will it take them to build a house together) study word problems, polynomials, putting numbers in order (decimals), estimation, where you place decimal when multiplying decimal numbers. take your time on adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying. dont make careless mistakes!

everything on the science portion was what ZekeMass said. And yes there is no clouds/rocks and stuff. Oh but you have to know how to read a mRNA chart (there was a q that appeared on both exams i took) another thing is know about dna replication (transcription, translation) just the general stuff about it.

english portion was tricky to me. sentence fluency, finding out definitions with context clues, simple sentences etc.

First time I got a 76% overall, second time i got a 88.7% (reading 83.3%, math 93.3%, science 93.8%, english 80.0%)

I studied for a week before the first one, and only 1 day before the test on the second attempt. My biggest advice would be TIME MANAGEMENT! you want to be comfortable/not rushed when you take the exam. if you leave things blank they are wrong, so at least guess! Hope this helped! "

For me, using the ATI study guide and the practice tests in the book were enough for me. I could tell from those tests what I needed to review and brush up on. If you don't do well on the practice tests in the book then using the ones on the ATI website will probably be helpful, but if you feel comfortable with the ATI book alone then you can save yourself some money! :)