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I'm not in nursing school yet but it's getting to be close to the time where I need to start applying to different BSN programs. After this semester I'll have 7 courses I need to take before I start the nursing program. My question is, how do I take the teas test successfully without having completed all of the pre-reqs for the program? I'm sure things from the micro, nutrition, & a&p pre-reqs are on the teas, so how do I take the teas without having completed those courses? I know there is a study guide for the teas which I plan on purchasing soon. How did y'all take the teas without the knowledge from all of your pre-reqs? Or did you wait to take it until you were completely finished with all the pre-reqs? Thank you in advance [emoji4]

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I got the McGraw Hill and Kaplan Teas review books. Those helped tremendously. The practice test in those helped me learn where I needed to focus more. I took the Teas this past year and I am definitely glad I waited until my prerequisites where done, I had a decent amount of microbiology and anatomy 1 & 2 questions. I would focus on your current courses and start reviewing the books. I definitely advise against taking it until you anatomy courses are done.

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Specializes in Emergency Department, Critical Care.

I purchased the TEAS version V from ati and liked the practice tests in the book and the review topics. I had one pre req left (micro) before I took the test and did just fine. I also made notecards based off of what I struggled on from the book

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

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Specializes in Critical Care Transport, Cardiac ICU, Rapid.

I took the TEAS almost a full year after I had completed and essentially lost all of the knowledge I had gained through my pre-reqs. Had I taken it sooner I probably would've flown through the science but other than that there wouldn't have been much of a difference. You really want to read every single line and section in the book. Math: there's not much anonymity here, just study the entire section in the practice book they can't really trick you here.

Reading: probably the section where I second guessed myself the most but ended up scoring very high nationally. Naturally I am a strong reader but pretty much just be able to get the correct answer from a passage (often these will make you think a lot as there are 2 answers that seem that could be correct but choose the best one). There are also a bunch of bold words in the reading section I don't remember what they were in the book lets just call them elements of writing? Just be able to correctly define them in your head as there will be questions asking you which is the best example of that element or what element best describes this passage and vice versa.

Science: read the entire section over and over. Every question for the most part will be completely out of this section. There isn't any trick questions here, the ability to recall information you've read in the manual based on the question is 100% this section on the test.

English or is it writing: pretty much just memorize this section and you will do well on it. Pretty similar in regards to how to approach the section studying wise with the reading. Test Wise I thought it was the easiest of the four though it was my second best.

Give yourswlf about a month and I'm sure you will score in the 90s. I didn't think the test was very difficult and only studied days prior (some of the most intense studying days I've had in a while), if I could go back I would spend a serious week on science. With the slotted time I gave myself there was no way I could recall all that info on the test. Good news is that I did make it into nursing school afterwards.

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