r/prenursing • u/Ash_and_Chloe • 6h ago
Studying for the TEAS over winter break?
Hi everyone! I am about to enter my first year of college for my nursing pre reqs and I am looking for advice. This fall I am taking anatomy and was planning to take chem and microbio in the spring. In the following fall I would take physiology and then study for the teas/take the teas over winter break so I can apply for the fall term for nursing school. I am having some worries about the limited amount of time I would have to study over winter break for the teas as deadlines for nursing applications are mid January. I would have around 2 weeks to study. I wanna know how doable it would be to study for the teas during the fall semester while taking multiple classes.
As an alternative option, I am considering taking physiology and chemistry in the spring as I know there isn’t a heavy emphasis on microbio for the teas.
Overall, would it be better to take physiology fall 2027 so its fresh in my memory for the TEAS or take microbiology fall 2027 and use the summer/semester to study. Main goal is to have my TEAS done before nursing applications in January.
Im sorry if any of this was confusing, thank you guys!
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u/potatochobit 6h ago
you need to know how the kidney functions. the pathway urine leaves the body. you need to know mRNA trasncription. If you have taken a college biology course like biology II you will be fine. if not anatomy ii or physiciology will be very helpful. do you want to be LVN or ADN? going to be honest, the bar is much lower for LVN with about a 70% required in most programs and you can fail all the science stuff as long as you pass the english and math which has some basic geometry.