Nursing School Entrance Exams

Are you wondering what might be included on a nursing school entrance exam, or does the nursing program you’ve applied to require an entrance exam? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then Nursing School Entrance Exams is the reference you need.

Nursing school entrance examinations provide associate, diploma, and baccalaureate nursing programs with specific information relating to an applicant’s or newly admitted individual’s abilities in content areas that provide the foundation for nursing courses such as verbal ability, reading comprehension, numerical or mathematical ability, and life and/or physical sciences. Nursing school entrance examinations generally use a multiple-choice format.

Verbal ability includes vocabulary, antonyms,
synonyms, verbal reasoning, and analogy. Verbal ability includes English usage and grammar, spelling, prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

Reading comprehension involves reading sentences, paragraphs, or short articles, answering questions, interpreting, and/or making inferences about the literary material. Prior knowledge of the topic is not requisite for reading comprehension because the examination asks you to think logically and make decisions based on the information presented.

Topics for verbal ability and reading comprehension may address technical or scientific knowledge and/or general, everyday knowledge. Information may come from discipline-specific vocabulary, English grammar, history, geography, literature, art and architecture, humanities, general information, natural sciences, social sciences, and mathematics.