A Six-Week HESI A2 Study Plan

Before week one

Two jobs, both of which take an evening and both of which change everything after them.

• Confirm your subject list with admissions. The A2 is assembled per programme and you cannot plan around a paper you have guessed at.
• Sit a timed mixed set across those subjects before revising. It tells you which areas are actually weak rather than which ones feel weak.

The six-week plan

If you have less time

Three weeks is workable if you compress rather than skip. Keep the diagnostic, keep the final week of timed rehearsal, and halve the middle: one week on Anatomy and Physiology, one on Mathematics and Biology together. Cutting the diagnostic to buy revision time is the wrong trade every time, because it is what tells you which revision to do.

How many hours a week

Eight to ten, spread across five or six days, beats fifteen crammed into a weekend. Recall improves with spacing, and a subject you touch four times in a week is retained far better than one you meet once for four hours.

8–10 hrs

Per week

5–6 days

Spread across

25+

Questions a day

When the plan slips

It will. Everyone loses a week to a shift, an assignment or illness. The recovery that works is not doubling up: it is dropping the lowest-value work and keeping the daily question habit. Twenty questions on a bad day preserves momentum in a way that a skipped day followed by a four-hour catch-up never does.

The HESI study guide covers what each subject contains, and the cheat sheet is what to carry into the final week.