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Assess your program's applicants with an entrance examination. In research studies, successful Admission Assessment scores have been closely correlated to successful program completion and student retention. There's no better way to evaluate prospective students! And with individualized remediation provided for all English and Math exams, your students can bolster their basic skills outside the classroom.

The Admission Assessment Exam consists of seven academic exams, as well as a personality profile that identifies the individual applicant's learning style. You can administer any one or all nine of these exams for the same cost. Admission Assessment test items have now been divided to provide three distinct versions: Registered Nursing, Practical Nursing, and Health Professions. Individual scores are provided for each exam, and these scores are combined to provide subscores in these four areas:

  • Reading Comprehension - Provides reading scenarios in order to measure reading comprehension, identifying the main idea, finding meaning of words in context, passage comprehension, making logical inferences, etc.
    • 47 items
    • Time allotment: 50 minutes
  • Vocabulary and General Knowledge - Contains vocabulary terms that are used commonly in both general English speaking and in the health care fields.
    • 50 items
    • Time allotment: 50 minutes
  • Grammar - Contains basic grammar, including parts of speech, important terms and their uses in grammar, commonly occurring grammatical errors, etc.
    • 50 items
    • Time allotment: 50 minutes

  • Basic Math Skills - Focuses on math skills needed for health care fields, including basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, decimals, ratio and proportion, household measures, general math facts, etc.
    • 50 items
    • Time allotment: 50 minutes

  • Biology - Covers biology basics, water, biological molecules, metabolism, cells, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, etc.
    • 25 items
    • Time allotment: 25 minutes
  • Chemistry - Contains test items that cover matter, chemical equations and reactions, the periodic table, atomic structure, nuclear chemistry, chemical bonding, etc.
    • 25 items
    • Time allotment: 25 minutes
  • Anatomy & Physiology - Provides coverage of general terminology and anatomical structures and systems.
    • 25 items
    • Time allotment: 25 minutes

  • Personality Profile - Uses concepts related to introversion and extroversion to classify the student's personality style.
    • 15 items
    • Time allotment: 15 minutes
  • Learning Style - Assesses the preferred learning style of the prospective applicant and offers test-taking and study tips suited to that learning style.
    • 14 items
    • Time allotment: 15 minutes

For students that do not achieve your requirements on their first attempt, parallel versions of this exam are available. No student will test with the same exam items twice!

Remediation for Students
Now your students can receive personalized remediation content in basic English and Math from Steck Vaughn™ - a leading provider of innovative and effective learning solutions that meet the needs of the individual learner. When the testing session has been closed, and students have received their results, they will be able to access remediation materials for every English and Math test item they answered incorrectly on the Admission Assessment.

This remediation content is designed to help adult learners master basic math and English language skills necessary to complete higher education courses. You can save valuable class time by assigning remediation content outside the classroom!

Results Reporting
Results are reported online, so you have flexibility in breaking down the evaluations. You can sort results alphabetically by student name, or rank students either by composite scores or by scores in individual subject areas.

You can access and rank a variety of scores:

  • Composite scores, which consist of the average score for all academic exams completed
  • Subject area composite scores, which consist of the score for all the tests completed in a subject area (English, Math, Science)
  • Percentage scores for each exam administered

Example Summary Reports
You can preview the summary reports available for the Admission Assessment Exam!

Scoring Guide

It's never been easier to make your admission decisions!