Evolve Reach Admission Assessment Exam Review |  | Author: HESI
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With content review and over 450 sample test questions, this study guide helps you prepare for the Evolve Reach Testing and Remediation Admission Assessment Exam. It includes detailed coverage of each of the subject areas on the exam: math, English, and basic sciences. Topics are simplified with step-by-step explanations, vocabulary, and practice problems with rationales.
- HESI Hints highlight important concepts and test-taking suggestions.
- Review questions help you assess your understanding.
- Chapter introductions emphasize the most important content.
- Representative exam questions familiarize you with the subject areas and testing format.
- Coverage includes material tested on each of the exam's three versions - RN, PN, and health professions.
- A new introduction explains the Admission Assessment Exam, with information about each of the subject areas tested.
- A Physics chapter provides preparation for a subject area that may be offered on your Admission Assessment Exam.
- An expanded math chapter includes a new discussion of military time, word problems, and more practice questions.
- Practice Tests on Math, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary and Grammar, Science, and Physics provide over 240 additional questions for exam preparation.
- An index provides a reference to all topics.
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 Terribly written review book for a terribly written exam! October 27, 2009
Laguna Marie (New Jersey, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, I echo everything Emily M's review said. This book has an unacceptable amount of poorly written questions - in a way, that will prepare you for the exam itself, which is poorly written. Honestly, they need to hire an English teacher to proofread this book and proofread the exam. It's inexcusable and disgraceful to have an academic book of this low quality.
This book just gets lazy - not using superscripts for the Chemistry section (instead of an exponent, it just looks like a four digit number). There are not nearly enough practice questions for Bio and Chem, and they combine the Bio, A&P, and Chem sections into one practice test. This is especially bad, because you can't really determine what your weak subjects and areas are - and isn't that the main point of a review book? My book did not have a CD.
We aren't allowed to discuss details of the HESI exam, but I will say that the Math, Reading, Grammar, and Vocab parts of the book will prepare you well for the exam. The Bio and Chem parts are just about useless. I bought an A&P flashcard set for Bio, which was helpful. For Chem, I went through last semester's Chem notes and a small Chem review study guide - they were more helpful than this book.
I did not use the A&P or Physics section of the book because I wasn't required to take those parts of the actual HESI exam, so no comments there.
My last issue with the book and the test itself is that they ask questions on medical-related issues and terminology. Ummmm..... this is an ENTRANCE exam - I am not a nurse yet - not even a nursing student yet! Please explain the logic to that.
Awful. I can't believe this went to press (2nd edition, too!) August 17, 2009
emily (midwest)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Wow. I can't even believe that I'm writing this about such a major publishing company as Elsevier, but I am. This book is simply AWFUL. There are mistakes everywhere. Print mistakes. Copy mistakes. Editing mistakes. Informational mistakes. Two sentences one after the other that contradict each other. Here's an example sentence that has me completely baffled/astonished: "Prokaryotic cells are those containing no defined nucleus and a series of organelles that carry out the functions of the cell as directed by the nucleus." Huh? In the same sentence, they say it has no defined nucleus, and that the nucleus (which it doesn't have?) carries out functions of the cells. Wrong. Here's another great one: "HESI Hint: Concentrations have a great deal to do with the rate of reaction. As is the case with males and females, increasing the numbers of reactants (persons) means that a greater number of collisions can take place." I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's not just the copy that has mistakes. Sometimes, in the sample questions at the end of a chapter, they'll tell you that, say, "B" is the answer -- and then CONTRADICT that answer in the explanation. So, say, question #6 from the "Biology" section: "In which organelle does transcription begin? A: Ribosome; B: Nucleus; C: mRNA; D. Cytoplasm" The answer? C. Except that mRNA is not an organelle. So the description says "The DNA of a cell is located in the nucleus. Therefore the beginning of the transcription takes place in the nucleus." Um...wasn't that answer B? So now I'm TOTALLY confused about where transcription takes place, so I'll have to Google it.
They also have problems with superscripts and subscripts. So 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd (where 23 should be a superscript) is printed in the book: 6.02x1023. Great. I am terrified that the test is going to be this horribly written!! I won't know how to answer the questions.
I really wish, as another reviewer said, there was some competition to this book. I haven't taken the exam yet (it's a requirement for entry into nursing school where I'm applying), but I will update once I have taken it. It seems to me that this exam is blatant unanalytical memorization. This book does not tell you useful things like, for example, if you will get to use a calculator, or if you will reference the periodic table or if you just are supposed to memorize the charges and atomic masses for every single element (um...even my chemistry professor doesn't know that? Why on earth would I memorize it? I wouldn't know where to begin).
All in all, this book is just making me more confused than I was to begin with. I've got the brand new 2nd edition, and it's awful. I'm an older student, with a degree in English, but it won't take an English major to know how horribly written/printed/edited this book is. I can't believe they sent it to press. Wow.
I'm praying that the actual exam isn't this much of a disaster. I don't trust them even to score me right, if it's the same publisher!!
**EDIT** -- I'm back, after having taken the test. I found that the tiny part on medical vocabulary that is in the book is useful, and also that the math section is useful (I got a 94% on the math). There is a calculator provided with the test, and the math was really simple since you could use a calculator. You need to know basic percentage problems, and also how to read a ratio problem. Now, for the sciences. There are only 22 questions per science section, so it's pretty-much a crap shoot. I just finished a college chem course, and studied this book, and I got a 58% on the CHEM. Class average was a 60%. Most of the CHEM on the test was biochemistry, which isn't really covered well in this guide. There is SO MUCH biology in the guide that I figure if you memorized it, you'd get at least a 70% or so...I got a 68% on the biology, but I didn't memorize it. Anatomy/physiology had so much stuff that wasn't in the guide that, again, it's a crap shoot -- if you know the anatomy in this guide 100%, you'll probably get a 70%, plus any that you happen to guess right or just know. I think this test is a very poor test, actually.
The other thing: this guide does NOT PREPARE YOU for the very long and involved "critical thinking" section of the test, which is INFURIATING since the "critical thinking" materials are ALL scenarios of how to care for patients, how to prioritize patient care, confidentiality, ethics, etc. After you take the test, Elsevier sends you a link to "more materials," where they have all sorts of materials for studying the critical thinking section for a "retake." Why not put any of that stuff in this book? I'm NOT YET A NURSE, so I have no idea about how to prioritize patient care, what to look for in X, Y, or Z scenario, what a diabetic diet is, etc. I'd have loved to have studied that.
My test didn't have physics on it, so I'm glad I didn't study that.
 HESI study guide review July 13, 2009
J. Demaline (Az, USA)
I bought this HESI study guide and it is exactly what the school recommended for preparing for the test. Thankyou!
awesome July 13, 2009
Lauren A. Martin (Denton, Tx)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a very helpful study guide. I probably would not have done as well on the exam without using this.
NOT all you need to study for the HESI A2 July 3, 2009
Janet (Colorado Springs, CO)
I gave this book 3 stars because you cannot expect to do well on the test having studied only this book. I thought the math section was good and provided most of what you need. But, I agree with another review that it could have gone into more detail on conversions. If you are taking the HESI A2, know your conversions. Also, the math section was very heavy in ratios so know that too. The English section was OK, but it is really hard to study for this section of the exam. If you read a lot you should do fine. As for the science sections...this book is totally inadequate. Make sure you get into your A & P books before the exam. All in all, I found this book helpful. I scored a 94 and used only this book to study. But, I had just taken A&P so it was fresh in my head.
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