TEAS in 3 Weeks Nervous!

[Marieh]

Hello everyone! I am wanting to express my concerns and that I am excited as I approach my TEAS date. I take it March 22nd. I am counting days and I study everyday. I have almost conquered Math, English and Reading with science I am really good with my A&P anatomy and physiology and also life sciences I am in Micro now so I can say that will help with Eukaryotic/Prokaryotic cells, Gram negative, Gram positive bacteria, and cell wall/ cell membrane structures and functions etc. I am having the hardest time with Chemistry though. Any ideas on how to study for this section. I am OK with atomic mass, atomic number, density matter, the basic concepts of chemistry like atoms, molecules its the more in depth stuff. I really want to do well on the test. Any advice would be helpful thanks.

[Marieh]

Wow thanks Iloveorchids days still counting down and this has greatly taken the stress off me. As I am great with alkaline metals, alkaline earth metals, noble gases, etc. I am good with polar and nonpolar molecules the basics of atoms, molecules, electrons, protons neutrons all of their charges and atomic number and mass and as you said volume and mass. Thanks again very helpful.

[Roasted.Peanuts]

I just took the TEAS on 3/15. I studied math mostly from the ATI Study Guide. I think it perfectly sums up exactly what you need to know for the math section. I didn't like the science portion of the study guide, so I just relied on my foundations from my prereqs. I didn't study English, but I probably should have since it was my lowest score. The science portion was about 80% Physiology and a couple questions on Chemistry.

I ended up with:

Reading: 97.9%

Math: 100%

Science: 93.6%

English: 83.3%

Total Score: 94.7%

Academic Preparedness Level: Exemplary

[Marieh]

Wow congrats on a great score that is just fantastic to see! I studied for a good 2 months and now Wednesday is the day I take my test. I feel confident, I really did a lot of math problems especially getting comfortable with word problems and how to set up equations.I have also practiced metric conversions as I know this will be important in the nursing program.

In Reading I basically got a good grasp of Topic/theme/main idea/ supporting details what sources to use to locate certain information thesaurus/almanac/dictionary/table of contents

How to draw conclusions from the passage

English is a no brainer, though I did brush up on certain things such as run-on sentences, dependent/independent clauses, direct/indirect statements , noun/verb agreement and mainly punctuation semicolons,colons, commas etc

Finally science I didn't need to study much basically looked over A&P notes learning the different systems, so I touched up on the Anatomy part and Physiology for each system and looked at YouTube videos like Khans Academy and Nurse Academy on chemistry.

Thanks again for providing your results that is a fantastic score!

[dreamnursing2]

Hi how did you do on test? can you share your experience please :)

[Marieh]

Yeah I fear to share on here because I didn't do well. I ended up with a 56% didn't pass. I got in everything went well what I though but I was shocked when I got the results. I struggled with it IMO. I think it is because I struggle with timed tests. When I took the practice tests in the manual and online I scored way higher. I thought I would of done really well in my science as I had a lot of time left but that I scored lower in. I'm very upset about it. I have a hard time taking timed tests. I know I can only take it one more time then I must wait 2 years. If that's the case I will get my CNA certification and work for a while and gain experience then take the test again. It sucks but I don't know what to do. I want nursing. I know that is a very low score I scored basic I need a proficient. I looked at what I missed in each section and I plan to study hardware the next 30 days on the topics I missed. Good luck to those attempting the teas their first and second time. Thanks everyone for the advice I have just been really down about this. Been crying a lot because I can't do anything else

[dreamnursing2]

dont feel bad. I scored 61 and needed 62 to qualify for a program and i was depressed for few weeks. you can re take the exam. Just study harder this time and try to understand the content. Im not sure if for me was more test anxiety or just content comprehension.

[Marieh]

I think for me it was feeling rushed. I am not good at the timed tests so I am working on that to overcome my challenge. I feel if I was given more time I would do better.But with the TEAS that's not possible so I am trying to figure out my weak areas so I can do better next time.