ATI anyone?

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Just curious how other schools are handling ATI? Every semester we use ATI and we have to take these exams and score an 85% on material we haven't covered but will be covered by semester end. The difficulty is we have ATI books from 2013 to review off of but the tests they are giving us are from 2010 and the information is inaccurate at best. A lot of us are also struggling because the rationales are off and these are timed assessments.

I like using ATI - especially for rationale purposes. However these mid semester exams are a real pain because I feel like we aren't learning anything from them. Especially since we don't even know which questions we need to work on - it's just a guessing game until we hit the 85% benchmark.

How does your school use ATI? Is this kind of thing done everywhere or is our school just a little disorganized?

Before they switched formats, we used ATI for benchmarking based in levels. Have us a decent idea of where we were sitting compared with either students.

They aren't that great for students, honestly, until you're closer to graduating or prepping for NCLEX. I've found they're more helpful for teachers to see how they're doing nationally, because as a student, we've had a very disjointed experience with it.

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I'm in my first semester and we use ATI in 3 out of my 5 classes. (The other 2 are research and patho). We have to watch videos and receive at least a 90% on the tests....just form A. We also have to do math ATI each week as well. Every exam we have in the classes has some questions from our ATI fundamentals book so we have to study it along with our regular textbooks. At the end of the semester, we have a dosage calculation proctored exam, that we can retake once but have to get a 90. We have to take an ATI proctored exam and have to at least score a level one to pass the class.

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Our school has phased out ATI in favor of Kaplan. However, in my opinion the ATI books are a lot more useful than kaplan. Everything for kaplan is online, I prefer to have ATI books. The only problem with ATI is that it is only content based and does not teach any testing strategies. As far as percentages for the mid semester tests, don't worry too much about them. I know it is discouraging that your grade is tied to the tests. everybody in my program felt that the ATI program was helpful, but the mid semester ATI tests were just badly timed. I felt that ATI was great at outlining what are the important points in each subject and it really helped when studying for the nclex.

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I'm in the last semester of nursing school and or program recently changed how they use ATI, Every semester ATI is used for our final exam, so your are given up to 20pts if you score a level 3, no things have changed, but not for the better. It use to be if you scored below level 1 you would get 10pts now you get none and we recently had to take a ATI 2013 comperhensive predictor and score a minium of 85% to pass and what I mean by is that if you did not make an 85% you have one more time to take it before pinning and if you don't make the score then they will not let you attend pinning. That is a new change too. We have 21 students in my class and only 10 of us passed. So 11 are stroking out. We only have material for 2010 and this is the 2013 version of all test we are taking it's unfair, but our hands for the most part some to be bound. Good Luck in School!!! :)

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Specializes in LAD.

I agree. What's taught in class sometimes conflicts with what the ATI book says. Yes, the ATI exam is 2010 but the books are updated. Side from the point, we have to take these darn tests. I hate it too! Here's my advice: Do every practice/review module you can on the website! Read the book and complete all the questions. I read both books in 2 days and managed to get level 3s for pharm & fundamentals! It can be done!!!

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Question- for my ATI I have a PDF copy of the readings, any one know if I can buy an actual book?

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Specializes in Neuro Intensive Care.
Question- for my ATI I have a PDF copy of the readings any one know if I can buy an actual book?[/quote']

If you are using ATI then you are probably paying for it through tuition add ons. They should have (meaning the school) gave you hard copies of all the books. There are a ton of them. I would ask for them.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I personally thought ATI questions were really similar to NCLEX and I was grateful to my school for choosing it and making us do those stupid tests. I felt like ATI prepared me well and all my friends agreed. Just keep it up!!!

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If you are using ATI then you are probably paying for it through tuition add ons. They should have (meaning the school) gave you hard copies of all the books. There are a ton of them. I would ask for them.

You would think so, but this year my school elected to just do online copies, which are cleverly hidden on ATI's student home page under support materials.

I think it was a poor decision, honestly. The PDFs are a pain more often than not.

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Specializes in Obstetrics, Women's Health.

We had to take the corresponding ATI exam to pass any course and move into the next semester. At the end of the program, we had to pass the cumulative ATI to graduate.

I hated it! That is, until I took the NCLEX and passed the first time - with NO review course and minimal studying!

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Yeah we only have the PDF copies which PP mentioned are pretty much hidden. I would prefer to have an actual textbook! Guess I gotta work with what I got!

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We had to take the corresponding ATI exam to pass any course and move into the next semester. At the end of the program we had to pass the cumulative ATI to graduate. I hated it! That is, until I took the NCLEX and passed the first time - with NO review course and minimal studying![/quote']

So, in your case you believe ATI was beneficial? I am still trying to determine if I think it's worth the hundreds of dollars.

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