To me they were different, the question format was different. The HESI didn't really prepare me for the NCLEX. My school did away with the HESI because it wasn't a good predictor for passing NCLEX, instead they changed to ATI, which is a lot more helpful.

it honestly depends on how well your school was. i went to a very strict nursing school with teacher that would make an army nurse feel uncomfortable. so it was a piece of cake. other places the school is so useless and only there to get easy money by having a nursing program (another story) and they have like a 70% fail rate. so it depends....

i tell people to think stupid. they dont know that ya obviously i would take vital signs after somebody comes back from surgery and i pick look at wound first as to what to do.....