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Math: 55 Questions Grammar: 55 Questions Vocabulary and General Knowledge: 55 Questions Reading Comprehension: 55 Questions Biology: 30 Questions Chemistry: 30 Questions Critical Thinking: either 30 or 35 Questions can't remember Stop studying for the Math, Grammar, and Reading Comprehension sections because they are really not in any way challenging. As long as you are literate and can do math at a sixth grade level, you are fine. The Critical Thinking section was mostly common sense but it did require you to know a little bit of medical terminology. Be familiar with how nurses go about prioritizing and assessing the needs of their multiple patients. Also be familiar with basic nursing ethics e.g. Patient Privacy, HIPPA, drug/medication policies, etc. Having experience with working in healthcare is beneficial, but by no means necessary in order to do well on this section. The Chemistry was pretty basic as well-I think I had one calculation problem in that section and otherwise just be familiar with the bacic types of chemical bonding and reaction types. Vocab and General Knowledge was a little more on the moderate level of difficulty. I didn't study for this section a lick because I figured it would test you on commonly used medical terminology and that the vocabulary wouldn't be anything taxing. It turns out this section was a little bit trickier than that: there were a couple of curveballs that involved words I've never seen or heard before. The overall content wasn't anything so difficult that you need worry about failing, it just wasn't as straightforward as most of the other sections. That just leaves the Biology section. This was the most difficult section for me and I stupidly left it for last, which made it much harder for me to really focus on because at that point I'd been sitting in front of a computer for four hours. I would just say be familiar with solutions-hypertonic vs. hypotonic, diffusion, osmosis, basic cell parts, cell functioning processiong, cellular respiration, fermentation, photosynthesis, transcription, translation, DNA, RNA, and a couple of other various topics that you learned in General Biology. If you know these things comfortably, you will be fine on this section. I think this covers it! The only other thing I would suggest is that when it comes to the order in which you choose to complete the sections, save the best for last, i.e. get the material you struggle with most out of the way in the beginning when you're thinking clearest and are most focused, then when you're towards the end of your exam and running out of steam, all you're left to face is the material that is easiest for you. Hope this was helpful and good luck everyone!

I just took the HESI today and the content for the Chem and Bio sections was on par with what HESI study manuals suggested would be on the exam. You just need to know and understand main concepts on a general level and be able to distinguish between two related concepts (e.g. Hypertonic vs. Hypotonic). Skimming through old general bio and chem notes might not be a bad idea-at least I wish I had done this. I haven't had a general biology or chemistry course for several years though, and I didn't commit much of what I learned then to memory because this will pretty much be the last we see or hear of a lot of it. No one really cares much about the Calvin Cycle or what the temperature is in degrees Kelvin when you're working in a hospital... For me, the Biology section was more difficult than the Chemistry section-and my advice to you is that if these two are your least favorite topics, don't save them for last. I made the mistake of doing this and took my sweet time getting through everything that was easier for me and then when I was approaching hour four of the exam, I finally reached Biology and by then I was partially brain-dead from staring at the computer screen that long. Good luck! Hope this helped!

The Critical Thinking questions are about how to prioritize patient care needs and also test your very basic nursing ethics knowledge. It is common sense as it is applied to a healthcare setting. I didn't do any prep for this part personally, but I think that if I were to do it again I might research rules for how to Triage a patient. Also, if you aren't familiar with nursing ethics...like patient privacy HIPPA stuff, maybe just look over that briefly as well. Don't go crazy-it is really just a lot of logical reasoning.

Well I just took the HESI today and the Critical Thinking was pretty much questions where you had to play triage nurse and prioritize certain patients over others. Also, there are questions about healthcare ethics..like nurse-patient relationships or sharing of patient info with others. It is a lot of common sense but at the same time a couple of them were a little bit trickier and did require me to think a little bit. As for preparation, I didn't do any. But, I would suggest looking up nursing rules for how to triage