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Great read, thank you!!!

Don't worry. You can totally do it. I honestly think I just got really lucky. I wasn't even scheduled for the exam technically. I was on standby. I shouldn't have gotten in and I shouldn't have passed. Oh, and my car broke down the night before so I didn't even have appropriate transportation. I had to get a sitter at the last minute. It was a total cluster****. But If I could do it, anyone can do it! Lol. I used the Kaplan test book and I borrowed it for free from the library. I do believe it helped prepare me but I barely got to use it. They say something like 80% of students fail out the first time or something ridiculous like that so don't feel bad. Maybe you didn't pass last time but I have no doubt you'll pass this time :)

I just got my acceptance call yesterday! Totally stoked and relieved to be able to finally make some decisions. Thank you to all who posted updates. I'm getting on FB now to join the group :)

I have not received a call yet, and I too, am very anxious about it! Some of us need to know if we're getting in so we can make appropriate plans, lol. But technically, it would be early right now to get an answer. They say in all the orientations/meetings that we get responses at the end of April/beginning of May, so we're still a few weeks shy to be worrying. I wish I knew already because I am totally dying already!

I did! Did you?!

I was mostly worried about this part too. I actually started A&P II just one month before the day I took the exam, and I had heard there was a lot of A&P II on the exam, so I was very concerned, but even with my limited exposure, it did seem like the test was very, very straightforward with the science questions. They are so straightforward that they seem extremely simple if you know the information, haha. I think that that example out of the book is exactly the types of questions you can expect.

Hello all! I too am applying for the 2016 Fall Semester shortly! I plan to turn in my packet tomorrow, so I have about a week to fix anything they might say I am "missing". I am super excited and scared all at once, and I hope to see you all! I was just wondering if anyone happens to know any more specific information about the program. I've tried consulting with my Health Programs Advisor, but he isn't very specific. I'm curious about the amount of hours I can expect to spend IN CLASS/CLINICALS/ON CAMPUS versus Study time at home, and also, how other people balance work/school AND CHILDREN, as I am a single mother. I pretty much need to decide now if I am going to work through the program or not, and since I own a house and am the sole provider to my single-family unit, I need to prepare now if housing changes need to be made (I may have to move in with my parents to complete the program!) It will take at least a few months to rent my home, time to prep it, move, etc. I can't make any real plans because the advisor won't tell me what other people in my position do to get through school. Any suggestions/experience (real life or otherwise!) would be greatly appreciated. It sounds retarded but I have very little planned for how I am going to pay for this schooling and continue to support myself and my daughter, mostly because I didn't know if I would get in the first try, but having passed my Kaplan on the first try, this is now becoming a real possibility... Also, I am wondering what expected and even unexpected things happen while you are in the program! I heard from some other students recently that within the first week of the program, nursing students are giving a "Dimensional Analysis" test (without notice!)and that if you don't get a 95% or higher you are immediately eliminated from the program. Has anyone else heard this? Or anything else for that matter?! GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE, OF COURSE :)

Also, another thing I should mention is that I took quite a few practice tests online and with the book specially selected for this test, and I was not really passing those tests. I was always one question short or a percentage short. The actual test seemed easier than practice tests.

I simply wanted to comment as it appears there have not been many comments since 2013! Yikes! I took my Kaplan exam at Community College of Southern Nevada here in Las Vegas just a few weeks ago, and I was pleasantly surprised by how simple it was. I did have the Kaplan prep textbook, but I only got about 1/3 into it by the time I had to stop studying due to other demands. The math was much simpler than I had anticipated. Most of it was basic algebra, no geometry as I had originally anticipated - In fact, this was one of the areas I was angry about after the test, because the textbook covered a great deal of math stuff that they did not include on the test at all. The conversion questions had the conversions IN THE QUESTION, so it was almost too easy. (Ex. If 1000 milligrams equals a gram, then how many grams are there in 2000 milligrams, etc) Also, the calculator they allowed us to use within the test taking program was not picky on when you could use it... So I had some very simple questions you could do directly on the calc, and yet there was no filter to stop it from being used on those questions. As for science, this is where I thought I would fail - Once again, I was pleasantly surprised. I just started A & P II and had been off a semester between that and A&P I, so I thought I would bomb, but I didn't. They were relatively simple questions, which was good, because there is so much material when it comes to the Bio classes, it's impossible to really know what will be included. English and Reading Were a bit difficult for me, and this says A LOT. I am actually a whiz in languages but even I struggled and scored my lowest in these areas. I felt that passages that they gave us were kind of all over the place as far as writing subjects goes. In any normal peice of literature, finding the main idea is like child's play. The peices they gave us were so random, it practically seemed like rambling. The example passages in the book were much more direct. I was really surprised at how difficult they made it. For those of you scared that you won't be ready, let me say this: I did not study as much as I would've liked for this exam. I actually went to register for the exam weeks in advance, but they didn't have my dates available, so I opted to take it the very next day. That's right: I had one day notice to prep for this test. All other studying I had done for it was literally a month before I took the test, unless you count my attendance to A&PII the few weeks prior to that as studying. So the night before, I went over conversions (which were useless in the end) and just rested, I didn't actually study. I passed with an 81%!