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Hi all -

I just took the practice TEAS exam at the ATI web-site. It was a package deal when I bought the new study guide. I really can't believe that my test will be as easy as that. Has anyone else taken it and also the official one? If so, how do you feel they compared?

I am thinking of taking my official one on Friday. I will definitely post with my results :)

Thanks in advance for any input!

I took the TEAS today. My school doesn't use it as a test for admissions. Instead, everyone admitted must take it before classes begin to give us a baseline to measure against later on. Also, it points out our areas of weakness that may need brushing up. I didn't study one iota and scored in the 99th percentile. :smokin: It showed that my math could use some brushing up, though. My last math class was calculus...20 years ago!

Okay - so in your honest opinion it wasn't that bad. What about the science portion? I was really freaked about the Math and now that I feel I have a good handle on all that, the Science is scaring me! I go take it in the morning and I have been studying like a fiend! I've looked things up on the web that are in the study guide & that I have never been exposed to before. I have had many people say that the study guide is way harder than the test.

Congratulations and good luck in school!

T

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I thought the science was a breeze. If you've taken your science pre-req's, you should be good to go. :wink2: Even if I hadn't taken them, I still think I could have done better than "okay" with the science.

The test wants you to think logically. Good luck, but I'm sure you'll do fine.

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Here's some easy stuff to brush up on (and will really get you if you don't):

Know your metric system equivalents - 2.54cm to 1 inch, how many kilograms in a pound, etc.

Know how many cups in a pint, pints in a quart, quarts in a gallon

Know your punctuation - colons, semicolons, comma usages etc.

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Here's some easy stuff to brush up on (and will really get you if you don't):

Know your metric system equivalents - 2.54cm to 1 inch, how many kilograms in a pound, etc.

Know how many cups in a pint, pints in a quart, quarts in a gallon

Know your punctuation - colons, semicolons, comma usages etc.

:bowingpur Thank you Landshark...Believe it or not, I was sitting here practicing metric/english conversions when I got the email about your reply ;) I have the pint/quart/gallon thing down pretty tight. The thing that frightens me is percentages for some reason. Not basic stuff, but percent increases/decreases. I am practicing those right now. I have found a few sites that have practice for the grammar/punctuation and have been hitting them hard. I hope that I will be happily posting tomorrow afternoon that I breezed like you :) If not, I have one more chance to take it.

Unfortunately, our test is used as admission criteria. You have all these pre-reqs you take and then this test and they assign everything a point value. Currently I have the most points I can get because I have A's in all my pre-reqs. However, the TEAS score is used to decide between candidates with matching points - whoever gets the higher teas points gets in...no pressure or anything :uhoh3:

Anyway, thank you again for the encouragement and the heads-up! I appreciate it!!

Traci

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Hey everyone!

Tomorrow is the big day for me too! I was feeling pretty good about it until I read about the conversions. I completely forgot about that stuff. Anyways . . . Good luck Stdy2BaNurse!!!

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Hey everyone!

Tomorrow is the big day for me too! I was feeling pretty good about it until I read about the conversions. I completely forgot about that stuff. Anyways . . . Good luck Stdy2BaNurse!!!

Good luck to you, too, Mandee. You will be fine. Be sure and post when you get done!!

- Traci

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