grayhunter18

Just want to inform all about the Hesi. Some fellow students and I petitioned our nursing program to retake the HESI exam so we could have the option of graduating with our class. We all succeeded in our third try at the exam and are nurse graduates. We all studied skills and strategies for this one. No knowledge was studied between this test and the previous. So that will show you hesi is based on how you take a test not what you know. Good Luck to all and thank you for your assistance.

The questions, skill, and strategies are what I have been doing since I started nursing school. I have never been one for test anxiety because you can only do one of two things, Pass or Fail, and niether one will kill you. The NCLEX style questions seem so much easier to me than the Hesi, I have no trouble breaking those questions down and figuring out what they want, but Hesi is a booger bear. This really sux but I truly do appreciate your input anything I can do want hurt. The Hesi style questions are so limited to the disc I have and can't afford to buy anymore and different books, disc, and no free resources that I have found useful on the web. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

help!!!!!! i am a senior nursing student in a bsn program, and i am having trouble passing the hesi exit test. the standard our school has for the test is 900. i have taken it twice and made 868, conversion score of 82.46%, the first time and 879, conversion score of 82.76%, this last time. the national average for this exam is 832 over the last year. the school is a great school and has outstanding instructors. i know my knowledge base is not lacking because i have made all a's and b's throughout the program. my issue is these hesi test. my clinical faculty has given me outstanding performance reviews throughout the program. this test is going to dictate whether or not i graduate. i am struggling with the fact that this test is deciding the outcome of my life when i still have to concentrate on boards which is the true dictator when it comes to nursing and i may not get to chance to cross that bridge because of the hesi test. i struggled with the hesi tests with all my clinical classes and tried a number of different study techniques so i need help with transfer information where the standards are within reason, test taking skills, or any information that can be helpful. most of the other programs in this state do not use the hesi, or use it for reference for the graduating student to give pointers on studying for boards. the class i am in has 31 students and 11 failed the first time, all but two made over 850 the test banks acceptable range for the test. those 11 took it again and 4 did not pass ( i was one), all made above 850. please can anybody give me and my fellow students any suggestions on how to succeed at this test or transfer and have a chance to blow the boards out of the water and prove that hesi is not a good indicator of what kind of nurse a person will be. the person is the indicator not the test. any information is greatly appreciated. help!!!!!!!!