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By Nancy Kimmel, MSN, FNP
Let me tell you how this all started — because it’s a story worth telling.
I was a math teacher at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan. I loved it. I loved my students. And I started noticing something that genuinely troubled me: the aspiring nurses sitting in my classes were struggling — not because they weren’t smart, not because they didn’t care — but because the math on the nursing entrance exam, the NET, was stopping them cold. No calculator allowed. Timed. Unforgiving. And for a lot of these students, it was the one wall standing between them and their dream.
Here’s the thing about me: I had taken the NET exam myself and scored a 95%. Math? 100%. So when students found out, they started asking me to tutor them. At first it was one person. Then two. Then it wasn’t tutoring anymore — it was classes. I’d show up to the library and there would be a group of students waiting, notebooks open, pencils ready, genuinely desperate to learn. And I wanted to help every single one of them.
But I was also teaching full-time and enrolled in nursing school myself. There are only so many hours in a day.
So I did what any practical person does when demand outpaces supply: I built a system. I took all of my teaching notes — every method, every shortcut, every explanation I’d used in those library sessions — and I turned them into a book. A real book. Sold at the Henry Ford College bookstore. Sold at Wayne County Community College. The idea was simple: if students had my actual lecture in their hands, they wouldn’t need to pay me by the hour. They’d have everything I knew, whenever they needed it.
That book was called The NET Study Guide. And I trademarked it.
Then Things Got Complicated
I won’t go into every detail, but here’s the short version: the company that produced the NET exam went ahead and trademarked a name that was uncomfortably close to mine. There went my website. There went that brand.
I could have been bitter about it. I wasn’t.
I thought about it, and I realized — you know what? They can have The NET Study Guide. I’ll do them one better.
I trademarked PASS THE NET™.
Because that is exactly what I train students to do. Not just study the NET. Not just prepare for the NET. Pass it. With a 90% or higher. That’s not a marketing line — that’s a guarantee I stand behind, because I know what it takes. I took the test. I tutored hundreds of students through it. I even worked with the company that produced the test, and when they offered me a role developing it, I turned them down.
So yes — if you see the name PASS THE NET™ anywhere else on the internet, I say this with complete confidence: they are posers. I am the original. I hold the trademark. And if you found your way here, you are absolutely in the right place.
What Makes This Different
Here’s what I know after years of teaching, tutoring, and working directly with the exam:
It comes down to two things: math and reading comprehension.
Take a calculator away from someone and watch them panic. Give someone five paragraphs and tell them they have less than five minutes — same reaction. But here’s what I also know: there is a method. A real, teachable, learnable method. And once you have it, the test stops being terrifying and starts being manageable.
That’s what PASS THE NET™ is built on. Not guesswork. Not generic test prep. My actual methods, developed through years of tutoring real students who went on to pass — and pass well.
Today, the PASS THE NET™ Study Guide has grown into something I’m genuinely proud of:
- 732 PowerPoint slides covering every concept you need — math, reading comprehension, and more — in the same style as my live lectures
- A NEW PASS THE NET™ Test Simulator and Study Tool so you can practice under real exam conditions
- Everything organized the way I teach it, not the way a textbook committee thinks you should learn it
I’m Nancy Kimmel. And Yes, You Can Pass the NET Too.
I’m a Master’s-prepared Family Nurse Practitioner. I’ve been in this field long enough to know what works and what doesn’t. I wrote this book because I saw a need and I filled it — not because someone hired me to, not because it was assigned to me, but because those students in the library deserved better than to have their dreams stopped by a math problem they could absolutely learn to solve.
If you’re preparing for the NET exam, I want you to know: the math is learnable. The reading comprehension is learnable. And with the right preparation, a 90% or higher is absolutely within your reach.
I know, because I’ve seen it happen. Over and over again.
So let’s get to work.
Ready to get started? The PASS THE NET™ Study Guide — including the full 732-slide course and Test Simulator — is available now at nmaca.org/shop.