ATI Fundamentals

[HeiragoNurse]

Hi Everyone,

Can someone please give me advice on how to pass the ATI exam on fundamentals. My school also has a rule, that if we fail, we also fail the course .

Right now I'm studying from the ATI app (fundamental section only) and reviewing questions from the back of my ATI fundamental book for each chapter. Is this enough? should I be doing something else different? I'm freaking out! Please help me y'all!!!

[TNT365]

Hey mallen we are suppose to be only testing on the part b of the ati fundamentals. The the topical outline is under the ati tab on blackboard. I can email it to you if you don't see it. It's just like the part b fundamentals practice 2013.

[christina731]

Dang, ATI is usually only worth 10% of our lecture grades. I didn't open the ATI fundamentals book once and I scored a level 3. I think I did so well because I actually read the questions thoroughly and because I knew the lecture material so well. I've also taken pharm and mental health and I never read those and scored level 2 on both.

[HeiragoNurse]

Dang...I need to stop tripping then and go for it!

[HeiragoNurse]

Girl I don't trust them. I'm studying everything!!

[nolansmom]

Passed with a level 2. I am not sure what the cut off for 3 was but those who read the book more than I had no problem getting that. Good luck!

[HeiragoNurse]

Did you have 60 or 100 questions? Were the questions very similar to the practice assessments you took under ATI? Congrats! :up:I bet you feel great....our test is coming up next week. Of course....I'm still freaking out despite studying and reading like crazy!

[nolansmom]

65 questions. Similar to the practice but only 4 were exactly the same. Good luck!!

[NICU_Nightingale, BSN, RN]

I'm about to graduate and my experience with ATI is the practice tests are pretty similar to the actual tests. In classes like med-surg it's absolutely crazy to read the whole ATI book a week before the exam because there's like a million pages and I have plenty of work already lo. What I did was take a practice test see which chapters it tested me on (you do that by scrolling down on your results page) and then reading those chapters and taking another practice exam and repeat. Works well for me I've only ever gotten 2s and 3s. Did your professor give the percentage equivalents to the levels? Ours didn't that's why I ask :)

[HeiragoNurse]

Thanks!! I'm gonna need the luck:writing:

[HeiragoNurse]

Awesome! I'm guessing I'll be fine. To score a level two we must meet the 68.3% mark or better. A 80% is considered a level 3 for fundamentals. I've studied all the chapters from my focus review and also answered questions in the back of the chapters. The information is posted on the ATI website under my products...I think. If not, it's definitely on there. You just have to search

[christina731]

I'm about to graduate and my experience with ATI is the practice tests are pretty similar to the actual tests. In classes like med-surg it's absolutely crazy to read the whole ATI book a week before the exam because there's like a million pages and I have plenty of work already lo. What I did was take a practice test see which chapters it tested me on (you do that by scrolling down on your results page) and then reading those chapters and taking another practice exam and repeat. Works well for me I've only ever gotten 2s and 3s. Did your professor give the percentage equivalents to the levels? Ours didn't that's why I ask :)

I agree! The medsurg ati book is crazy! I don't understand who has the time to read that on top of all of their other textbooks.

[HeiragoNurse]

I want to thank each and every individual who added imput to this thread. Im happy to report I passed my first ATI EXAM!!!!

And you all helped me get to level two for fundamentals... Thanks!!!