HESI-REAL TEST TAKING STRATEGIES:
HESI is a huge database, there are so many questions to pull from, some
instructors substitute in the study guide questions, some use the diagrams-some
do not. It is true they will continue from V1 to V2...and so on, but I cannot
guarantee my questions and answers will match-they were just the ones given on
the exit exam here. This guide is designed to help you succeed on your exam.
HESI is a test designed to see how well you can pick the correct answer. If you
can always pick the correct answer, you have a good chance of passing NCLEX.
That is all it does. It sounds stupid but that is what it boils down to. It does not
measure how much you know or how well you would be as a nurse. It comes
down to critical thinking and test taking skills.
Studying content alone will not guarantee you will pass. You could know
everything about meningitis and know everything about COPD. What
interventions do you do when you get a client with COPD that contracts
meningitis? What interventions can you not do? If you have good test taking skills
and critical thinking you can probably figure out what to do first even if you did
not know EVERYTHING about either disease. You could probably get by with the
minimum amount of info on either disease process. Do you know EVERY single
calcium channel blocker? Probably not, But if you know that most end in –dipine
and how they work then you can probably figure out what to do next or what
foods they can’t have.
HOW TO STUDY FOR HESI?
(Advice from Someone Who Passed the HESI RN with a 946.)
I taught myself (through the HESI book, Saunders Questions, course
reviews dealing specifically with critical thinking) how to answer questions.
Study by breaking apart questions and the answer choices. At the same time, I
had to review basic content. This was all memory work. The hard part was
applying and using critical thinking when you break apart questions. That meant I
had to do many questions. However, blindly doing questions without figuring out
why the correct answer is correct and why the other answers are incorrect will
not help you. You need to know why the correct answer is correct and what clues
in the questions led you to that correct answer. Nevertheless, you also need to
use the knowledge you have gained so far and figure out why the other answers
are incorrect. I needed to fully know everything about the question and the
answer choices to improve my test taking skills. Better to do 10 questions, break
them apart then 100 questions, and just look at the rationales.
So how do you break apart a question? First, I read the question. THE
WHOLE QUESTION. SOMETIMES TWICE TO GET ALL MY INFO. I DO NOT
EVEN LOOK AT THE OPTIONS AT THIS POINT. WHY? BECAUSE YOU CAN
GET A LOT INFO FROM JUST THE QUESTION.
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HESI is a huge database, there are so many questions to pull from, some
instructors substitute in the study guide questions, some use the diagrams-some
do not. It is true they will continue from V1 to V2...and so on, but I cannot
guarantee my questions and answers will match-they were just the ones given on
the exit exam here. This guide is designed to help you succeed on your exam.
HESI is a test designed to see how well you can pick the correct answer. If you
can always pick the correct answer, you have a good chance of passing NCLEX.
That is all it does. It sounds stupid but that is what it boils down to. It does not
measure how much you know or how well you would be as a nurse. It comes
down to critical thinking and test taking skills.
Studying content alone will not guarantee you will pass. You could know
everything about meningitis and know everything about COPD. What
interventions do you do when you get a client with COPD that contracts
meningitis? What interventions can you not do? If you have good test taking skills
and critical thinking you can probably figure out what to do first even if you did
not know EVERYTHING about either disease. You could probably get by with the
minimum amount of info on either disease process. Do you know EVERY single
calcium channel blocker? Probably not, But if you know that most end in –dipine
and how they work then you can probably figure out what to do next or what
foods they can’t have.
HOW TO STUDY FOR HESI?
(Advice from Someone Who Passed the HESI RN with a 946.)
I taught myself (through the HESI book, Saunders Questions, course
reviews dealing specifically with critical thinking) how to answer questions.
Study by breaking apart questions and the answer choices. At the same time, I
had to review basic content. This was all memory work. The hard part was
applying and using critical thinking when you break apart questions. That meant I
had to do many questions. However, blindly doing questions without figuring out
why the correct answer is correct and why the other answers are incorrect will
not help you. You need to know why the correct answer is correct and what clues
in the questions led you to that correct answer. Nevertheless, you also need to
use the knowledge you have gained so far and figure out why the other answers
are incorrect. I needed to fully know everything about the question and the
answer choices to improve my test taking skills. Better to do 10 questions, break
them apart then 100 questions, and just look at the rationales.
So how do you break apart a question? First, I read the question. THE
WHOLE QUESTION. SOMETIMES TWICE TO GET ALL MY INFO. I DO NOT
EVEN LOOK AT THE OPTIONS AT THIS POINT. WHY? BECAUSE YOU CAN
GET A LOT INFO FROM JUST THE QUESTION.
This study source was downloaded by 1350395 from cliffsnotes.com on 10-13-2025 02:32:18 GMT -05:00
https://www.cliffsnotes.com//study-notes/16929488
