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The HESI A2 Critical Thinking section is an optional component of the HESI A2 admission assessment that some nursing programs require. It evaluates your ability to analyze information, draw inferences, prioritize patient needs, evaluate arguments, and make clinical judgements - skills core to safe nursing practice. The section uses scenario-based questions designed to predict success in the nursing curriculum and on the NCLEX.
The HESI A2CT exam evaluates your knowledge across these areas:
Recognizing the underlying problem in a clinical or academic scenario.
Evaluating evidence, distinguishing strong from weak arguments, and identifying assumptions.
Sorting actions and patient needs by urgency using safety and ABC frameworks.
Drawing conclusions from incomplete information and interpreting data.
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Not always. Some nursing programs include the Critical Thinking section, others do not. Confirm with the program you are applying to before scheduling.
Through scenario-based questions that ask you to identify problems, evaluate arguments, prioritize, and draw inferences from the information given.
Practice scenario-based questions, get comfortable with prioritization frameworks like ABC and Maslow, and review your reasoning on every wrong answer. Our HESI A2CT practice sets focus specifically on these patterns.
A strong HESI A2 Critical Thinking score signals that you have the reasoning ability to handle the clinical decision-making demands of nursing school - and to perform well on the NCLEX later.