HESI A2: the Department ID, version 1 versus 2, and the school that owns the score

Department IDThe number ties the seat to one school

V-1 then V-2Do not start both registrations

Name matches IDEvolve and the license must agree

Extras may not countStyle and profile are not anatomy

How to register for HESI A2 without burning the wrong version

HESI A2 is Elsevier’s Admission Assessment. The school owns the eligibility. You pick a Department ID, then V-1 or V-2, then a seat on campus, at Prometric, or at home. A Little Rock sticky note with a cousin’s Department ID is how people sit the wrong school’s exam and still miss a deadline. Elsevier delivers the test. The catalog owns the score.

This guide is the registration that fails before a question appears: Department ID, version, Evolve name, and the three doors. If the packet named TEAS, leave. Open TEAS 7. The fork itself lives on the name in the catalog. Prep without a dump lives on how to prepare without a dump.

Three-box flowchart: school ID, then version one, then a seat — The Department ID, the first-time version, then a seat. A pretty study bundle cannot repair a registration that belongs to another campus.

If the catalog said TEAS, leave

HESI A2 is Elsevier’s Admission Assessment. It is not ATI TEAS 7. It is not NCLEX. It is not a nurse aide skills test. If the packet named TEAS, this page will waste your week. Open the four TEAS clocks. If you still do not know which exam the school wants, wait. Pre-nursing prep is the fork.

If the packet named HESI A2, stay here. The school already chose the modules. We already showed how far those menus swing. This page is the registration and the report, not another tour of seven-versus-five section lists.

The Department ID is the school

Distance testing on Evolve asks for a Department ID. That number is not your student ID. It is the school’s code. Prairie View A&M’s public distance-testing sheet is blunt: do not use the school’s Department ID as your student ID when you create the Evolve account. Enter the ID your program printed when you register for the distance exam. Read Prairie View’s distance-testing PDF.

East Carolina’s BSN tutorial, updated October 31, 2025, walks the same door: create an Evolve student account at evolve.elsevier.com, then enter ECU’s published BSN Department ID so the form autofills that school. UNLV’s public HESI sheet prints a different Department ID and a different attempt rule. Those numbers are local. Do not borrow one. Do not type a number from a group chat. Ask the testing office for the current ID for the exact program you are applying to. Start at ECU’s remote registration tutorial (PDF) and UNLV’s HESI A2 requirements (PDF) as a method, then open your own PDF.

If two schools want HESI, you may need two eligibilities. A score tied to one Department ID does not automatically become a score for the other. Ask both offices before you pay.

Two boxes labeled V1 and V2 with an arrow: first, then next — First-time testers sit V-1. A retake sits V-2. Starting both registrations, or abandoning V-1 halfway, is how people lose an attempt before the deadline.

V-1, then V-2

Elsevier’s faculty guide says you select the A2 version at scheduling: version 1 for a first-time tester, version 2 for a second-time tester. Campus PDFs repeat that in student language. ECU tells first-time testers to choose A2 V-1 and retakers to choose A2 V-2. UNLV says A2 V1 is the first attempt and A2 V2 is the second and final attempt there. Prairie View says do not register for multiple exam versions at once. Register and finish one version before you touch the next.

ECU’s red-box warning is the sentence people learn too late. Once you begin a V-1 registration, follow it through to a scheduled seat. If you start V-1 and walk away, V-1 can look “used.” If only V-2 is left and you have never sat, Elsevier has to reset the registration. If both versions show none available, both are burned. ECU tells those students to contact Elsevier, and it recommends chat. That is one campus talking about one vendor process. Yours may use a testing center instead of distance testing. The version trap still exists wherever V-1 and V-2 are how attempts are counted.

We will not invent how many attempts Elsevier will sell you. Your school’s attempt rule is the one that admits you. A second paid seat that the packet will not read is a donation.

Your Evolve name is a door

Prairie View’s sheet says the first and last name on the Evolve account must match the government-issued photo ID you will show. A mismatch keeps you out of the lab. A middle initial is not required there. The photo must look like you now. If the confirmation notice has the wrong name, that campus tells you to write Elsevier HESI Assessment at the address they print, [email protected], before the appointment. Failure can forfeit the seat and the fee.

Use the email the school told you to use. ECU asks current students for the ECU address. A leftover high-school Gmail that you cannot open on test morning is how people miss the eligibility letter. Write the Evolve username on paper. Write the confirmation number on paper. A password manager that fails in a Prometric lobby is not a plan.

Three doors for HESI A2: campus, testing site, and home — Three common doors: the school’s testing center, a Prometric site, or a remote room. The packet names the door. A cousin’s Prometric receipt is not permission.

Campus, Prometric, or home

HESI A2 is not one building. Some programs sit you in their testing center with an access code and the HESI secure browser. Elsevier’s school-testing-center student guide walks that door: personal computer or iPad, access code from the instructor, complete every required module, and do not exit the secure browser if you want to get back in without a proctor. Read the school testing center student guide (PDF).

Distance testing often goes through Prometric after Elsevier approves eligibility. Prairie View says Elsevier approves valid requests in one to three business days, then emails a confirmation with an eligibility ID and directions to schedule and pay at Prometric. UNLV says three to five business days. Prometric’s public Elsevier page lists in-person centers and, for some A2 exams, remote testing through ProProctor. Remote means a camera, a microphone, a supported computer, and a room that passes the check. Exams that fail because the machine or the room failed do not automatically become a free seat. Read Prometric on Elsevier remote exams and Elsevier’s HESI NG A2 distance testing student guide (PDF).

Some schools still name a different remote vendor. Confirm the door on the current PDF. If you will sit at a kitchen table, the room-scan problems are the same ones we already walked for online programs. Read the proctor room before you pay a remote fee.

You pick the next module

TEAS 7 opens reading and keeps a fixed order. HESI A2, in Elsevier’s student guide for personal devices, starts on a Select an Exam screen. You choose which module to begin. You can leave a module and pick another. The timer on the one you left does not stop. If you disconnect fully, the timer stops and you need a new access code from the proctor to come back. Read the HESI A2 student guide for personal devices (PDF).

That is why a mixed “do a little of everything” week fails twice. The school already cut the menu. Then the seat lets you wander. Pick the module you came to sit. Finish it. Then open the next one that counts.

The useful report is the modules the school said it would read. Learning style and personality profile can appear and still count for nothing on the points worksheet.

What the report actually is

Elsevier can show a score after a module if the instructor allowed it. The detailed report lives in Evolve under exam results. Broward College’s public how-to is one campus walkthrough: sign in, open Student Access, find the attempt, open the Admission Assessment Report. Use Broward’s score-report PDF as a method, then look in your own Evolve account. Nursier cannot open it for you.

A composite can hide a leak. The school may require a floor on every named module, or an average, or both. UTHealth’s Pacesetter page recommends 85 percent or higher on each of its seven sections and will not review extras such as critical thinking, learning styles, and physics. ECU’s ABSN FAQ prefers 75 percent or higher on each of its five and tells you to ignore chemistry, physics, and grammar in study materials. Those are two local laws. They are not a national HESI cut. We will not invent one.

Learner-profile pieces are real products. One Elsevier-derived school sheet lists a learning-style inventory and a personality profile with recommended times, separate from the academic modules. They can print study tips. They do not become anatomy. If the packet says extras are not reviewed, do not spend the last hour of the seat on them.

A score taken for the wrong school

UTHealth says it will not accept a HESI score taken for another institution. That is one school. Yours may accept an outside score, or it may not. Ask before you reuse a cousin’s eligibility, a Department ID from a Facebook screenshot, or a Prometric appointment you booked under last year’s program. A paid exam that lands in the wrong school’s inbox is still a paid exam.

If you applied to two HESI programs, write two Department IDs on two cards. Ask each office whether they will read the other’s report, how old a score may be, and whether every named module must be taken in one sitting. UTHealth wants its seven taken together. Another campus may not.

Medical atlas plate of heart, lungs, and kidney, the structures HESI anatomy often names — If anatomy is on the packet, name the structure out loud. A composite that hides a soft anatomy line is how people get a polite rejection.

Anatomy still leaks, if it is on your list

This is not a second anatomy textbook. It is the reminder that the registration work does not retire the module. If the packet scores anatomy and physiology, that line is often the leak. Heart, lungs, kidneys, GI, neuro, endocrine, and the cell. Say the name. Then use it in a short item. If you cannot say it, you do not know it yet.

Math is basic on paper and strict on the clock when the school turns it on. Vocabulary is health-care English, not a casual chat. Grammar and reading appear when the school orders them. Biology and chemistry are not “the rest of science.” They are modules. If they are off the packet, leave them off the desk. The HESI A2 guide is the practice map on this site. Official review, if you buy it, stays with Elsevier. The current Admission Assessment Exam Review is one official book. It is not a license to study modules your school will not score.

After you have the ID

Write four facts on a card: the Department ID, V-1 or V-2, the door (campus, Prometric, or remote), and the module list that counts. Then sit a short diagnostic in those modules only. Name the two weak ones. Work those until you can explain the miss out loud. Then mix. Then time.

If the next task after a score is still a waitlist, stop shopping HESI videos. The points worksheet is the next document. If a second school later names TEAS, that is a different ticket. Sit practice questions in the exam you already named. The Nursier editorial team wrote this.

We do not take Elsevier registration. We do not take Prometric fees. We do not take a school’s application fee. Those offices keep those payments. If a registration is stuck, the testing office and Elsevier own the reset. We cannot click it.

Common questions

What is a HESI Department ID?

It is the school’s code on Evolve, not your student number. Your program prints it. A number from another campus will send the eligibility to the wrong office.

What is the difference between A2 V-1 and A2 V-2?

On the campuses that use those labels, V-1 is the first attempt and V-2 is the retake. Finish one registration before you start the other. If a version looks used and you never sat, call Elsevier and the testing office.

Can I take HESI at home?

Only if the packet named a remote door and your machine and room pass that vendor’s check. A kitchen that failed a room scan is not a refund plan.

Does a learning-style result help my application?

Only if the school said it would read it. Many packets ignore style, profile, physics, and critical thinking. Ask. Do not assume a long report is a better report.

Can I reuse last year’s HESI for a new school?

Ask that school. Some will not accept a score taken for another institution. Some want every named module in one sitting. Age limits are local.

Is HESI harder than TEAS?

They are different exams. Hard is the ticket you did not prepare for. If the catalog named TEAS, this page is the wrong week.

Sources

Confirm live pages. Department IDs, versions, and doors move.

Nursier is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Elsevier, HESI, Prometric, ATI, or any nursing program. HESI is a trademark of Elsevier. This article is planning copy. It is not registration, and it is not a school cut score.