So NERVOUS!

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Tonight I am taking the RN NLN enterance exam. I am so nervous I could throw up! I really need to do good on this thing, there is so much riding on this exam!! Please Please Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers and if there is anything you can think of that I should review quickly before, let me know! Thanks!:bluecry1:

I won't lie....The test SUCKED! Some of then material is crazy and some of it is VERY basic stuff...however the time constrait kills you. Make sure you know, diffusion, osmosis, active transport, facilitated diffusion...ummm read on some circut and ohm stuff...I will be 100% honest is saying there is no REAL way to study...you either know it or you don't. The math....know decimals, fractions, percentages, converting between them....adding subt etc etc. I was bombing the practice tests too, usually getting about half right..I can't tell you what my outcome is yet though! I am so stressed waiting...its miserable!

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I agree...no real way to study, but the math section helped me to refresh what I had forgotten since I haven't been in Math for about 2 1/2 years. Science, there are some things discussed in the book and others, I hadn't read anywhere in the book!

If this is the NLN test you are taking, there are actually 3 different tests (I would assume to stop people from cheating). I am not sure if they are all the same questions in a different order or if they are actually different questions all together, but I think all in all they consist of basically the same questions.

I will say, both times I took this test, I walked out almost in tears...but I held it back. This past time especially because I really want to get in for the fall and I thought I had bombed it completely and there was no way. I think you walk out of there thinking that, but when you get the scores back, even if you don't get in, you will more than likely be surprised by how well you actually did.

Also, another thing to keep in mind is not every question on the test is counted toward you final grade. They say some of them are for informational purposes for NLN...not sure if they told you that either.

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I appreciate your reply. I took the science review last night out of the study guide AFTER reading the whole thing thru and the BEST I did was missing 15 out of 60!!!! UGH!!

I've got less than 2 weeks....time to cram cram cram!!

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I studied for a month straight and felt it helped me greatly. I didn't study the vocabulary but did the math and science.

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Hey Jamie Sue..any word on your results yet? How long do they take to get in? My big day is Saturday....I'm more than a little freaked over it. UGH!

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Specializes in Critical care, Pediatris & Geriatrics.

a little bit late,

but GOOD LUCK & keep us posted!!

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Specializes in SNF.

my wait was @ 3 weeks....yuk

keep us posted.

i bet you did great

I agree, no real way to study!!

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Hey Jamie Sue..any word on your results yet? How long do they take to get in? My big day is Saturday....I'm more than a little freaked over it. UGH!

Good luck JDLAStew- i take mine on saturday too! :uhoh21:

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Good luck JDLAStew- i take mine on saturday too! :uhoh21:

Good luck to you too then Talulah!

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Specializes in OR Internship starting in Jan!!.

Good luck to all of you!

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How do you think you did, JDLA? I thought that the math and english sections were pretty easy but the science part had nothing that i studied on it!

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Just wanted to let you all know that I got my test results back and I did infact pass the exam :) I am now being considered for 5 different nursing programs. Hopefully I get accepted somewhere!! Thanks for all of your support!

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