Should Colleges Use Admissions Criteria Other Than Assessment Scores and Grades for Acceptance into Nursing Programs?
Why does going to college or going back to college have to be so difficult? Why do they need to have so many admission requirements? We all know that grades are important, but between placement testing, GPA, and pre-requisites, it’s an added stress that nobody wants. Isn’t the whole point of attending college to learn? When taking College writing, you are taught how to write, and the same go with math, so why is it so difficult? Assessment scores and grades are important, but other factors should be added in as well.
ACT/SAT scores, placement testing with the college, and pre-requisites that are required, for the new high school graduate doesn’t seem like a lot, but what about the students that decided to take a year or two off, or the people that what to go back after 10 or 15 years to advance their opportunities with their careers or even switch their career?
Most college’s require science classes to be 5 years old or less otherwise they need to be taken over. Having to redo
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The TEAS test has four sections: Reading, Math, Science, and English and Language Usage. The HESI test has eight subtests that make up the academic portion of the exam: math, reading, vocabulary, grammar, biology, physics, anatomy and physiology and chemistry. These tests are combined with your GPA, which will give you a score that can determine whether you get into a nursing program or not. These assessments in my opinion mean nothing. You can be book smart and do well on tests, but when it comes to actually practicing and working with real patients, being book smart means nothing. Common sense nurses are the best nurses you will find. They go off of feeling and never send guess