ATI Comprehensive exam

pkbullard · Sep 21, 2012

I am a 3rd semester RN student. At my school we have to take ATI proctored exams every semester. I suggest to do the practice exams over and over as much as you can. Another thing I do is at the end of every section of the book there are questions. I look at those questions and their rationales. If you don't understand one of the questions then look back in the book at read that particular section. I hope that helps! I will not lie. The tests are difficult but I think if you practice a lot you will be fine.

np19872 · Sep 21, 2012

Thanks a lot. I had Ati proctored every semester too and like u said I did practice questions and book and i passed them, but this is the last Ati which is comprehensive, which is like NCLEX but lot harder. I am practicing all kinds of questions, but I m not sure how much it will help me.

Tarabara · Sep 22, 2012

Is your comprehensive ATI for a grade or something? If not then I'm not sure why you're so stressed over it, for us it was just to give us an idea of how prepared we were for the NCLEX and areas to focus on for study. So it was a good thing, no pressure. We had to do the practice exams from previous ATIs though and I found those were the best study aid. In fact thats how I mostly studied for NCLEX, I did practice ATIs over and over.

np19872 · Sep 22, 2012

It's a pass or fail thing. It's not just for practice. If we don't make level 2 then they fail us n we r out of nursing school, even if this is our last semester. Level 2 is 72.74 percentile. I make 85 to 90 on my practice nonproctored test but that's not possible in the proctors comprehensive test. It is 10 times harder. Last semester, 20 students failed.

bkeith90 · Nov 15, 2013

My school changed their curriculum to a concept based this semester. I am a first semester nursing student. They also have made it a requirement that we take an ATI comprehensive proctored exam each semester. The faculty team are telling us that they have no idea what will be on the exam, that ATI creates the exam. One of the faculty (who is a new graduate herself), said that she had HESI where she went to school and for her what worked was to do NCLEX practice questions daily. She would do 500 questions/2 times day. I did several questions from the new Saunder's NCLEX 6th Edition book and noticed that several questions from it were on my last exam.

My question is, would reading the ATI books ( which I have not done up to this point), or practicing NCLEX questions help more? The ATI books seem very basic just touching the surface. I do most of my reading out of the Craven Fundamentals textbook or Smeltzer Med-Surg. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.