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HESI A2 Admission Assessment Practice Test

Nursing school entrance practice across math, reading, vocabulary, grammar, and science.

  • Up to 8 subject areas
  • your program chooses which subtests you sit
  • no universal passing score
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Questions written from the published HESI A2 (Evolve Reach Admission Assessment) subject areas; not official Elsevier items. Internal QuizCram practice target. Elsevier publishes no official passing score for the HESI A2 — each nursing program sets its own required score.

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How to pass the HESI A2 Admission Assessment

Learn each domain, drill until it’s automatic, then prove it in a timed mock exam.

  1. Step 1

    Confirm with your program which subtests you must sit before you study — programs differ

  2. Step 2

    Math is the most commonly required subtest: dosage, ratios, conversions, and fractions

  3. Step 3

    Build medical vocabulary from prefixes, suffixes, and roots rather than memorizing word lists

  4. Step 4

    Review A&P, biology, and chemistry fundamentals if your program includes the science subtests

  5. Test day

    Book the real test once you clear the pass mark comfortably, twice in a row.

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  1. Written from the source. Every question is our own wording of a fact in the Healthcare source, never copied from a real exam.
  2. Checked against its section. Each answer names the section it comes from, and the answer is checked against that text. Anything we cannot confirm there is not published.
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Questions written from the published HESI A2 (Evolve Reach Admission Assessment) subject areas; not official Elsevier items. Spot an error? Email [email protected] with the question; we check it against the source and fix confirmed errors. Editorial policy.

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HESI A2 Admission Assessment FAQ

There is no official passing score. Each nursing program sets its own required score per subtest, so check the requirement published by the program you are applying to.

The A2 offers eight subject areas and the admitting program selects the combination its applicants sit. Programs commonly require math, reading, vocabulary and grammar.

Yes. Open the exam simulator and sit a timed mock exam of 40 questions built from the free questions, once, with no signup. Unlocking the exam adds full-length runs of 50 questions in 50 minutes (a practice clock), as many as you like, each a new draw from the whole bank.

The exam's agency publishes no topic weights, so it mixes topics in proportion to the question bank, favouring questions you missed before and never repeating one within a run. A retake is a new draw, so you will meet different questions. It is a practice mock exam, not an official replica of the real exam.

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