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Regarding TEAS VI, I did not find it difficult and if you had some problems in the past, I would recommend using a book called "TEAS 6 for Dummies" for preparation. The questions in that book are very similar to the actual TEAS VI. IIRC, you will need to score above the 77th percentile in order to be considered, but it depends on whatever the current mean score is for the test, and that is determined by ATI. The score changes. Get the book, shoot for passing all the practice tests at 80%, and you should be okay, unless your anxiety makes it impossible for you to pass. I am recommending 80% because this is the minimum score you will have to achieve in all your classes to pass, should you be accepted into the program. Start focusing on that number now! :-) Good luck, and let us know what happens!

Hi. :-) You have to be a CNA. Experience as a CNA is negotiable (I have an person who worked as an EMT in my cohort), but actually having a CNA certification is not. And you can't just be on your state's registry as a CNA, you have to be active. Take care!

I got my letter of acceptance today! :-) I've been slotted for the May cohort, though, which is fine. We had some discussion about it during my interview, and so it was pretty much what I expected to see if they accepted my application. :-)

Hello. :-) I have applied for UW-Osh Acc BSN, and have been interviewed, and am now waiting and waiting and waiting, as one does. I just wanted to say hi. :-)

I took ATI Teas (TEAS VI) on Monday, September 26. I am still waiting for the results (so frustrating, particularly since I am aware that many other people had their results within hours) so you must take my impressions of the test within that light. This is how I felt I did; I have no objective evidence to back it up. My goal was to score in the 80's for all subtests, and I am reasonably sure I did that (but, as I said, no guarantees, as the "experimental questions" could be score spoilers). The school I am working with has put out guidelines on what scores they are looking for, so getting 80 or above across the board will get you at least considered. Reading: This is my powerful area, so I did not find it hard overall, but there were some questions that were real duesies. In addition to readings of 1-3 paragraphs, there were rearrangements, charts, and mental manipulations that required interpretation. Most of it was pretty standard, but I have to believe that some of the odder offerings were from the pool of experimental questions. It felt like it was not just a test of my ability to read and understand material, but also my ability to intuit information from disparate observations. Math: Very standard stuff. It is more of an applied math test, stuff you would be expected to be able to manipulate as a professional nurse rather than as a researcher. Basic math, algebra, geometry, stats. I did notice a difference between the TEAS V practice tests and the TEAS VI practice and actual tests, though. TEAS V was a lot more about solving basic math problems, where as TEAS VI was more about recognizing the kind of problem you were dealing with, setting it up, and then solving. There were metric to English, metric to metric, and English to metric measurement problems, as well. It appears that there are less math questions on TEAS VI than was on TEAS V, but the time is about the same on both versions of the subtest. I suspect that this is because the test is supposed to demand more mental processing and less rote solving, so practice your word problems. Science: This one was probably the area where I had the most issue, because either you know it, or you don't, and I took my sciences about 1 million years ago. The focus was mostly HA&P, with some basic biology, basic chemistry, and scientific reasoning. Most of the questions are general, but they do throw in the occasional in-depth question that feels like it is from left field, because it is the sort of question that is waaaaayyyy beyond the depth level of the majority of questions. It's like you are dealing with questions like "How many legs does a cow have? Is a dog a mammal? Do sharks have teeth?" and then you suddenly get "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" English: Again, this was pretty standard punctuation, editing, structure identification stuff. If you can break a sentence into its constituent parts, you will blow through this. If you can't, it's like the Science section. Either you know it or you don't. My overall impression of the test is that it is very, oh, interwoven. There are questions demanding math in the science section and questions demanding scientific reasoning in the reading section, and so forth. It felt like the test was measuring my capacity to reason and observe as much as it was testing my basic knowledge. I spent some time preparing for the test, mostly by taking whatever sample tests I could get my hands on. I started out brushing up on things with an NLN guide, but it was soon apparent that I was getting more out of skipping the review sections of study guides and just focusing on the practice tests. So I took every internet test I could find, some of which were really terrible. The most useful online tests I found, that I did not have to pay for, were at Learning Express. I also got the McGraw-Hill tests from my library, and I bought a used NLN guide, took all those tests. Lastly, I did buy the Mometix TEAS VI guide, and the test questions in there were at the same level as the TEAS VI test itself. It's also a better deal than the ATI materials.