How Hard is the Registered Nursing School Aptitude Exam (RNSAE)?

According to the makers of the RNSAE, this test covers common subjects and skills developed during the course of a general high school education. The main areas are math, English, and the natural sciences.

That is good news for you. The material covered on the RNSAE is not very hard, per se. Just the common stuff most of us picked up in high school.

But don’t let this lull you into a false sense of security and confidence leading up to the test. The RNSAE can still be hard.

Here are some reasons why:

• You’ve been out of high school for a long time now, and your knowledge of things like spelling, grammar, arithmetic and the natural sciences is, well, rusty. Maybe you didn’t even do that great in high school in the first place.

• The RNSAE is timed. The material covered on the RNSAE isn’t necessarily very hard in and of itself. But there is a lot of it. 200 questions or so. And you only have so much time to answer all the questions. For many similar entrance tests, you have less than a minute per question! This is a deliberate tactic used by the makers of the RNSAE. So it is not if you can answer a given RNSAE question, but also how fast you can answer it.

• Nowhere is the timing aspect of the RNSAE more important than when dealing with the math questions. Again, the math questions aren’t overly difficult. They are of a eighth-ninth grade difficulty. No advanced calculus or trigonometry here. But you aren’t allowed to use a calculator, so all calculations must be done in your head or by hand on scrap paper. If you are rusty at math, or rely on a calculator for even basic math, then this will be hard for you. Struggling to calculate an average or percentage, or doing long division, can eat up a lot of valuable time. And that can stop you for answering all of the questions on the RNSAE. Which is bad.

Great. So the RNSAE can be hard. Now what?

Here at TEST PREP HACKER, we got you covered. Here are a few things you can do to make sure you are test ready for the RNSAE.

• Start by reviewing your basic math skills. If you need help remembering and practicing how to do things like long division by hand, then we recommend you head over to Khan Academy and watch some videos. You NEED to be comfortable with doing all the following by hand: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. This includes working with whole numbers, fractions and decimals. You also need to be able to work with ratios, percentages and averages.

• Then do some review of English spelling, vocabulary and grammar. Check out lists of commonly misspelled words.

• Review the natural sciences. This includes physics, chemistry, earth sciences and biology. There is a lot of ground to cover here.

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