ATI test-taking tips?

Published Oct 23, 2018

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Hello! How's everyone doing?

I know this is getting old, but do you know any tips to answer ATI proctored exams questions? My score varies from level one to mostly level two. The level two scores are always almost couple of questions away from getting a level three, it's kind of frustrating. I recently took ATI Mental Health, for example, a question about caring for Alzheimers' pop up, asking about the best way to care for them when they wander. Some choices are to lock them in their room, move them closer to the nurses' station, place them in the farthest room, dim the lights at night. To my surprise, according to my instructor, the correct answer is to lock their doors so they can't open it at night when they start to wander. It's the first choice that I crossed out; I was thinking that would be false imprisonment. That is not in the ATI book.

I mean, how do I know these based on critical thinking? I'm about to take Maternal Newborn this session and I am way too stressed already on how should I study, a lot of my other classmates mostly did level 1 on this (our cohort is very open in talking about our grades). My resources are mostly practice questions (Evolve, ATI, Cathy Parkes from youtube, RN Nclex Mastery App, RNMentor ATI app, and success' books from Davis) I stay away from coursehero, one student recommend it to me and told me to look at the individual performance profile uploaded in that website and I would know which chapters to focus on. I would appreciate every tip or extra resources! Thank you