Teas test suggestions based on practice test scores?

[CaptC]

I took a practice test from the official teas 5. These are my scores:

Reading: 83%

Math: 73%

Science 63%

Grammar 60%

I was annoyed with my math score because I'm usually pretty good at math. The mistakes I made were pretty simple mistakes that I shouldn't make. I believe I could get my score high than that. I didn't use a calculator because I was under the impression you weren't allowed. That makes sense based on the questions. The science I expect to get a worse grade on my first try. Considering, I felt I did fairly well for a first go, still need to improve significantly however. Grammar was the biggest surprise to me. People might laugh but I honestly don't know what some of the grammar terms even mean.

This was about a month ago, I'm still taking pre reqs, (after this semester I'll only have 3) so at the time I didn't feel I should use a significant amount of my time towards the teas. A month later and I'm starting to study for it, mostly because the program I'm applying for is very competitive and I might get a B in A&P 1 and statistics. That is pretty awful for this program so my teas scores need to be spectacular. I was working over 30 hours a week and got an awful failing grade on my 3 stats test. After decreasing my work ours I got over 100 on the 4th test...anyway back on topic. I'll admit I do have issue figure out how long I should be studying in one class vs another. I also get really tired so it isn't very productive for me to study when I'm mentally fried.

Sorry a bit of topic. I recently took a practice test from the Mcgraw hills book of practice tests. The questions were easier in some instances than the official book.

Reading: 94% (This felt much easier than the official practice test questions)

Math: 79.4% (This felt about the same difficulty, the only difference I noticed was they didn't have some of the word problems found in the official guide. It even had some geometry questions that took me a couple of minutes to figure out. I was able to figure them out so they weren't difficult, but they caught me by surprise and I was running into some time trouble towards the end of this section. For the most part it was similar to the official guide practice test. I def improved improved on some of the simple mistakes from the first time around.)

Science: 67% (This felt easier also, but my grade was similar so maybe it wasn't.)

Grammar: 60% (yeah I need to study lol)

The most frustrating part is that some of the questions, I think 4, are experimental and aren't graded so I could have gotten an better or worse grade and I would have no idea.

What would you suggest I do from here? Should I pay for a prep class? Is there a study regiment that you would recommend? I would really like to get 80 or higher on all the sections. Science seems like it covers the widest range of topics. That seem like it would take the most time to improve. I wish there were more official practice tests, I don't want to wast the second one in the book.

Thank you for your time.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Moved to TEAS test forum

[CaptC]

Sorry about that. I was looking for a teas test forum, but had troubles finding it. Thank you for moving thing for me.

[CaptC]

I took another math practice from this site TEAS Math Practice Test - Free TEAS V Practice Questions. I found this to be more similar to the ati book practice tests. I got an 86 and didn't use scratch paper. With a bit more practice and being a bit more careful I should be able to get pretty close to 100%.

[Honey Clover]

Grammar and math are the easiest scores to improve upon imo. They're based on rules and your ability to pay attention to details. I scored the lowest in those on practice tests but after studying more, they became the highest scores for me on the real test. I suggest you find out which topics in grammar and math you're missing a lot in and then go Google free quizzes based on those topics. Like for instance, I had trouble with subject verb agreement so I googled free quizzes for those and kept practicing until I got the hang of it. I also looked at other resources that explains the grammar rules in a different way and that helped too. For math, I found that I made simple mistakes which meant I needed to increase my focus while test taking in general. Try doing khan's online academy math problems. They make you do the math problems over and over again, forcing you to really focus and pay attention to details before submitting answers. That helped me imo. Science was mixed bag for me but I thought they give you good outline of all the topics in the official Teas study guide. They were general guidelines but I think if you want to study that section more, you'll need to go into much more depth and look at outside resources based on the topics they give you in the book. Seems like you are doing fine in reading so I suggest you don't focus on that very much but if you want to get higher, again, there are plenty of free practice reading tests on Google. Practice makes perfect. Keep doing them.

[CaptC]

Yeah I'm not worried about the math section. I'll work on getting it up some more, but my mistakes are mostly from poor handwriting or trying to do problems in my head and estimating. Doing arithmetic like 1267 x 356 / 5 in my head I know know I shouldn't attempt to do. When I decided to use a pen my 11 became 16 through a sort of and 7x 16 is much different than 7 x 11. Really basic stuff like that. 26/30 correct. There was only 1 question that I honestly messed up on. It was one of write this in an equation problems. So I might to a bunch of those. In general I'm confident there.

Grammer is my next focus. I honestly don't know any of the rules, subject verb agreement and all that stuff. I just don't know it at all. I even messed up on some spelling things like the word nickel... I was thinking we'll twinkle so than nickel, but that kind of thought process doesn't seem to work with Grammer lol.

Science is a beast of its own. There is just such a wide range of areas they can ask questions from it can be intimidating.

[blueboo95]

I purchased both the Secrets of the TEAS and the ATI Study Manual, and found the ATI book to be MUCH more helpful and accurate to what the test would be like.

So here's my advice, based on my study habits (I got over 90). They may not work well for you since we're all different, but hope they will help.

1) Take practice test from the Secrets of the TEAS book, without the time restriction. (Don't want to prematurely use the practice tests from the ATI book.) Correct it, going over every single answer you got right or wrong.

2) What section did you get the lowest % score on the practice test? (I mean major section like math or science.) Study just that section from the ATI book until you've gone over everything they have to say, looked up videos to clarify, and done a little memorization to really know it, etc.

3) Then take a practice test from the ATI book, without the time restriction like before, and going over every answer you got right or wrong. Then repeat step #2 on whatever subject was lowest this time.

4) Then if you feel more confident about the TEAS overall, go ahead and take your second practice test from the ATI book, with the time restriction this time. Study your weakest subject again up until a couple days before the test, then take a day off and rest. : )

Really hope that helps!