Those who have taken TEAS V?

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I am taking TEAS V this Saturday. I am really worried I won't do well enough to get accepted! Please, please if anyone can help I owuld be more than grateful! I'm sure for you who have taken TEAS V, know how stressful it is and how worrisome it is.

I have been studying for about 3 months now out of the ATI, and I just read through all 433 pages of the Mcgraw Hill Nursing Entrance exam these past two weeks. On top of that, I got so many books on plate tectonic, cloud formation, and rock formation. I have read there is Earth science/ geology on TEAS V that was not included in the study manuals. I am practicing my conversions and going over the spelling rules.

For the science, I have went over everything to how each system of the body works and what includes in it, what hormones the endocrine system releases, what enzymes and catlysts are and how they work, I have gone through chemistry, and how to balance equations, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, mitosis/meiosis.

Is there anything that you feel I have left out that was a major part of TEAS V that wasn't included in the McGraw Hill or ATI study guide??

Please, any feed back is more than helpful!

Thanks!

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It's pretty hard to study for the spelling part - trying to cram 300 commonly misspelled words in a short period of time is just going to burn said time.

My advise for that part is to quickly write down the given word before you really have a chance to look at all the different spellings they give. Because they will all look right and you'll quickly doubt yourself.

For math, just be sure you can deal with fractions (adding, multiplying) easily. Also, know your order of operations (multiply before you add).

For science, I didn't see any earth science. None of the clouds and rocks business I've heard of. I'm thinking those questions were from previous versions of the TEAS.

Know the Digestive system, respiratory system, Circulatory system, Mendrel's laws (Punnett square, recessive vs dominate genes), understand the differences between natural selection and adaptation, understand difference and relationship between chromosomes, genes, proteins, RNA, and DNA.

Nucleic acids, enzymes, proteins, acid and base solutions.

That's all I can remember. I haven't had biology or A&P yet, so it was quite fun. I do know a little bit now, and I guess going into those classes I'll now have a tiny head start.

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for the reading part definitely know topic sentence, summary sentences, inferences, opinion/biases. the informational reading part is self explanatory. all of it is in the ATI manual. i took the teas exam twice and the first time i totally lost track of time cause i spent too much on the reading portion. the second time i took it i did the informational stuff first and got it out of the way, then went back to the paragraph reading and i was able to finish everything in time

math is basically what ZekeMass said. fractions, percentages, there was a roman numeral question, inequalities, estimating square roots/irrational numbers. one thing that wasnt in the ATI study guide book was a squared + b squared = c squared (given 2 sides of a triangle find the last side). another thing was work rate problems (jack builds house in 3 hours, jill builds house in 8 hours, how long will it take them to build a house together) study word problems, polynomials, putting numbers in order (decimals), estimation, where you place decimal when multiplying decimal numbers. take your time on adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying. dont make careless mistakes!

everything on the science portion was what ZekeMass said. And yes there is no clouds/rocks and stuff. Oh but you have to know how to read a mRNA chart (there was a q that appeared on both exams i took) another thing is know about dna replication (transcription, translation) just the general stuff about it.

english portion was tricky to me. sentence fluency, finding out definitions with context clues, simple sentences etc.

First time I got a 76% overall, second time i got a 88.7% (reading 83.3%, math 93.3%, science 93.8%, english 80.0%)

I studied for a week before the first one, and only 1 day before the test on the second attempt. My biggest advice would be TIME MANAGEMENT! you want to be comfortable/not rushed when you take the exam. if you leave things blank they are wrong, so at least guess! Hope this helped!

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for the reading part definitely know topic sentence, summary sentences, inferences, opinion/biases. the informational reading part is self explanatory. all of it is in the ATI manual. i took the teas exam twice and the first time i totally lost track of time cause i spent too much on the reading portion. the second time i took it i did the informational stuff first and got it out of the way, then went back to the paragraph reading and i was able to finish everything in time

math is basically what ZekeMass said. fractions, percentages, there was a roman numeral question, inequalities, estimating square roots/irrational numbers. one thing that wasnt in the ATI study guide book was a squared + b squared = c squared (given 2 sides of a triangle find the last side). another thing was work rate problems (jack builds house in 3 hours, jill builds house in 8 hours, how long will it take them to build a house together) study word problems, polynomials, putting numbers in order (decimals), estimation, where you place decimal when multiplying decimal numbers. take your time on adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying. dont make careless mistakes!

everything on the science portion was what ZekeMass said. And yes there is no clouds/rocks and stuff. Oh but you have to know how to read a mRNA chart (there was a q that appeared on both exams i took) another thing is know about dna replication (transcription, translation) just the general stuff about it.

english portion was tricky to me. sentence fluency, finding out definitions with context clues, simple sentences etc.

First time I got a 76% overall, second time i got a 88.7% (reading 83.3%, math 93.3%, science 93.8%, english 80.0%)

I studied for a week before the first one, and only 1 day before the test on the second attempt. My biggest advice would be TIME MANAGEMENT! you want to be comfortable/not rushed when you take the exam. if you leave things blank they are wrong, so at least guess! Hope this helped!

Thanks a lot!! Really do appreciate it.

for the mRNA, are you just transcripting DNA to mRNA? For instance, is it like ACGGCTA and your turning it to mRNA: UGCCGAU?

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I'm sorry it's actually called a genetic code chart. like this :

http://wiki.cstl.semo.edu/agathman/GetFile.aspx?File=Translation%20of%20RNA%2F06_chart_pu3.gif

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I'm sorry it's actually called a genetic code chart. like this :

http://wiki.cstl.semo.edu/agathman/GetFile.aspx?File=Translation%20of%20RNA%2F06_chart_pu3.gif

I had that on my test as well, and had no idea what to do with it (Haven't taken the bio classes yet). Spent the last 5 minutes of the test period analyzing the chart vs the answers and came up with a guess. I either got it right, or it is one of the "trial" questions. Drove me mad for that last 5min though :)

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I had that on my test as well, and had no idea what to do with it (Haven't taken the bio classes yet). Spent the last 5 minutes of the test period analyzing the chart vs the answers and came up with a guess. I either got it right, or it is one of the "trial" questions. Drove me mad for that last 5min though :)

Same here! I'm pretty sure it is one of the trial questions, but after the first test I went home and googled how to read it so I am pretty sure I got it right on the 2nd exam :p

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you need to memorize which codon matches up with each amino acid?

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No you dont need to memorize anything, just how to read it. If for example I give you Val-Ala-Gly you should be able to read what the codons are for it. (GUUGCUGGU)

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No you dont need to memorize anything, just how to read it. If for example I give you Val-Ala-Gly you should be able to read what the codons are for it. (GUUGCUGGU)

oh okay. great thanks!

Wish me luck today!!

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Good luck!!!! Let us know how you did! :)

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Good luck!!!! Let us know how you did! :)

My individual score was 80!

I really don't know what to think!!!

I surely did better than I thought. I was in tears while I was taking the science portion. Turns out reading was the worst. I got a 63 on the reading but a 92 on the science. I swear I was ready to jump off a bridge with a rope around my neck after that science section, I know it was pure luck bc I didn't know most of the questions I just clicked away.

I don't know what to think now =/

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