Taking TEAS on the 30th of March

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Hello everybody! I'm a student in California at a local CC that will be taking the TEAS exam for the first time very soon. I have been studying my butt off for the past 2+ weeks and it's somewhat stressing me out at this point. I'm not sure if I am overdoing it or underdoing it with the studying.

Either way, I've taken much of the advice for my studying from this website. I bought the two practice ATI tests online, completed one before studying, and completed one after studying for a week and scored the SAME SCORE on both (82.7%). Which in my opinion is kind of funny, but I need an 85% minimum to have a chance in my program. :notworthy: I've watched countless youtube videos, Khan Academy videos, Crash Course videos, Tyler DeWitt Chemistry vids, and Mometrix videos. I also bought the official ATI study guide, along with the Mometrix study guide, and the full Pocket Prep app for my Android ($12).

I just wanted to make this post so I can get back to you all with how I do on my Teas Exam and whether or not my study methods were good enough to help me achieve the score I needed. I will let you guys know if I make the mistake of burning myself out or if this test really deserves a months worth of preparation. :cry:

I got an overall percentage of 88, wonderful for the program I'm applying to! (I needed an 85 minimum). I honestly just gave up on studying for the past few days but I should have reviewed more for English. The Math and Science was what saved my grade. Reading is very easy to run out of time on, so I found it the most challenging and somewhat tricky. The official study guide was good, but most of the stuff on the exam was just something that I knew without studying for. What really helped me was the 2 practice tests from the ati website. Those gave me explanations to what I got wrong, helped me get a feel for the exam format, and when I took the test I was able to picture in my mind what the explanation might have been if it was just practice. I think the mometrix book over-prepares you and it honestly made my brain hurt. Science was NOT in depth at ALL. Feel free to ask more questions lol

That's great I'm happy to hear you did so well. So, overall you would say it's pretty much okay? Not too bad? How long did you have for each section? I want to try and time myself this time around whenever i take the practice test. I only toke form A, .. I've heard form B of the practice test online is much harder!! I'm going to try and study but not over think stuff. I'm pretty good at math, English not soo much. So that's where I'll try and spend some time! A&P, .. just basic stuff? ayy, .. I'm just so nervous lol my GPA it isn't the highest so i'm hoping I can get above an 85 to make up for that GPA ._. Thanks again for your feedback and GREAT job I hope you get into your program, is your program merit based or lottery?

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Great job! :up: I am glad you got the results that you need to get into the program. I will focus mostly on the Math section all weekend. My big day for the test is Monday. Would you say the ati book prepared you well for the actual test? Did you have to calculate geometric quantities (volume and surface area?

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That's great I'm happy to hear you did so well. So, overall you would say it's pretty much okay? Not too bad? How long did you have for each section? I want to try and time myself this time around whenever i take the practice test. I only toke form A, .. I've heard form B of the practice test online is much harder!! I'm going to try and study but not over think stuff. I'm pretty good at math, English not soo much. So that's where I'll try and spend some time! A&P, .. just basic stuff? ayy, .. I'm just so nervous lol my GPA it isn't the highest so i'm hoping I can get above an 85 to make up for that GPA ._. Thanks again for your feedback and GREAT job I hope you get into your program, is your program merit based or lottery?

Yes I think it was not difficult; not as difficult as the SAT for example. Here's a breakdown of each section:

Reading: 53 questions, 64 minutes. You will NOT have much extra time left over. I'm a very fast reader but even I finished this section with only 3 minutes left over to check my answers because it requires you to really analyze the passages. If you don't know the answer to a question, guess and then come back to it. You can write on your scratch paper for the question/s you need to come back to. Don't spend any amount of time on just one question.

Math: 36 questions, 54 minutes. If you're good at math this will be a breeze. Study up on conversions in the metric system and even US conversions. If you have time, check your answers by plugging them into the equation. This works if you don't know the answer so you can just try different ones out until it makes sense. I ended up guessing for one of the questions because I never studied US conversions.. lol oops. I had about 20 minutes left over for this section.

Science: 53 questions, 63 minutes. I just knew it all from my anatomy, physiology and micro classes. I think the study book is good for science even though everyone else says otherwise. It just wasn't in depth. Basic functions of everything in the body and some locations. I had plenty of time left over.

English: 28 questions, 28 minutes. This is the one you wanna look out for and study for the most. It will bring your grade down substantially if you miss a few questions because each question is worth more in this section, since there's only 28 of them. I had some time left over to check my answers but it didn't help because either you knew it or didn't. This wasn't my favorite section.

I found form B to be easier than form A.

My program has a criteria which counts up points for special life circumstances, knowing another language and your gpa. The higher the gpa the higher the points you get; same for the teas. If more than 32 people get the same amount of points, then they use the lottery system to pick out 32 people to start the program in the fall.

I actually had to retake a lot of classes to get a high enough gpa. I'm very lucky that they didn't deduct points for retakes, but I did have to drive to another college to take them.

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Great job! :up: I am glad you got the results that you need to get into the program. I will focus mostly on the Math section all weekend. My big day for the test is Monday. Would you say the ati book prepared you well for the actual test? Did you have to calculate geometric quantities (volume and surface area?

Thank you! Yes it did prepare me well, but the practice tests and teas pocket prep app prepared me even more. Yes, there was simple geometry but every test is different so just study all of it just in case.

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Awesome !!! I failed because of my reading portion, what helped you the most ? Really bummed out about it but I'm here for more advice, I agree the science portion wasn't bad at all.

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Awesome !!! I failed because of my reading portion, what helped you the most ? Really bummed out about it but I'm here for more advice, I agree the science portion wasn't bad at all.

I'm sorry to hear that you failed; I agree that the reading portion was pretty difficult. Like I said, the official practice tests from the ati website helped me the most for the reading portion alone. You get a feel for what kind of answers they are looking for. There was no assumptions to any of the questions asked. If the answer isn't completely true then it isn't correct. Sometimes the simplest, most general answers are the only correct ones. Using many forms of practice tools and study guides helped increase my score.

To clarify, my individual scores were:

83% Reading

93.8% Math

89.4% Science

79.2% English

97th percentile

On the practice exams, I scored higher on the reading (up to 97%) cause I was more relaxed and didn't time myself. The test is different. Try timing yourself during the reading portions when you practice and good luck to you! :cat:

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