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TEAS exam

Hello all!

I'm currently on my way to applying for nursing schools next year, and just realized that I don't know anything about the TEAS exam. I was hoping that anyone would please inform me about the exam, specifically about retaking it, the average score, and when should I begin to study for it?

On a side note, I haven't taken any of my science prerequisites yet.. So, would it be best that I wait to take them first?..since I don't have prior knowledge and wouldn't be able to answer the questions for the science part of the exam.

Thanks a bunch!

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My score report said something about the national average being about 72.8%. You'll have to check with the schools you're applying to to see what score they require - the schools I'm applying to all required an 78.9% or better. I think I read that some schools go by percentile rank.

I studied 2 weeks for the test mainly so I wouldn't fall into the "I'll study later" trap. I ended up with a score in the mid 80s and in the 91st percentile. I was premed in college up until a semester before I graduated, so I took all the majority of the sciences at least 4 years ago, so that part I didn't have to worry about studying too hard for and just did a review. The science on the exam was pretty much the basics of chem, bio (food chain and cell structure), I think I had one physics question, a few basic human anatomy questions, scientific process, earth science, and that's all I can remember from that section.

English and reading were the basics: reading comphrehension, inferring things from the paragraph, sentence structure, spelling and grammer.

Math: fraction, decimals, a few geometry (pythagorean), ratios, addition, subtraction, division, etc.

I'd check with your school(s) about retaking and if they have a limit. My schools will only let you take the test twice an application period. Hope this helps!

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