ATI Testing!!!!

KatieM74 · Feb 10, 2009

I agree with you 100%.. I know that we stress about passing the practice tests, which you need a 90% to sit for the proctored. Given our limited time and all of the busy work we get it seems like such a waste.

fragino · Feb 21, 2009

ATI is a great tool and unfortunately to some, it becomes an accurate prognosticator of their failure to pass the NCLEX the first time.

Programs want to use it to find out who is at risk of not passing the NCLEX so that they can help them, but in order for it to be accurate, they have to have the students take the test seriously. Maybe that is why they have placed consequences in not doing well in it, just like there are consequences in not passing the NCLEX.

Programs can't teach everything that may be on the ATI, just like they can't teach everything that may show up on the NCLEX. However, if a student does well in class, do A LOT of NCLEX review questions for each section they are covering each week, they will be more than well prepared to take the ATI and subsequently, the NCLEX.

If you do all those things, and with no other preparations, it's more than possible to walk into a testing center the week after graduation and pass the NCLEX with 75 questions.

shygoofyone · Feb 21, 2009

Our program requires various ATI assessments at a pass rate of at least 60% program rank (sometimes higher, depending on the class) for each class, each semester. And, they give us points for passing, so it helps our grade. I heard from previous grads that ATI is actually much more specific than NCLEX-RN.

fragino · Feb 21, 2009

I heard from previous grads that ATI is actually much more specific than NCLEX-RN.

ATI just gives you a set of questions. NCLEX adapts to how well you're doing on the test. The better you do, the harder the questions. That's why everyone I know, whether they passed or not, whether they passed with 75 questions or with 250 questions, felt like an idiot after walking out of the test center.

Actually, the goal is to get out of the types of questions they ask in the classes and ATI. If you're starting to recognize content questions, you may be in trouble. When NCLEX starts asking questions that you have no idea what they are talking about, but you are able to reason out an answer based on what you do know, even though you may have no clue if it's right or wrong, then you are where you want to be. Believe it or not.

Sheepak · Jul 9, 2010

Does anyone have the topics to review for form a or b for leadership ? any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks!

melmarie23, MSN, RN · Jul 9, 2010

Does anyone have the topics to review for form a or b for leadership ? any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks!

Someone elses topics to review wont help you. At the end of practice ATI exams or proctored ATI exams, they make a focused review based on how the individual did-meaning they tailor it to the questions you got wrong and then make the review based on that.

You will just have to wait until your exam to receive your focused review.

blessedmomma · Jul 7, 2011

Yep we have to pass ATI test too. :madface:

Bpitts · Dec 9, 2011

our school in Utah is actually doing research to find out if ATI is actually helping us. The ONLY data they've found so far is that those who get 95% and above on the comprehensive predictor test have never failed NCLEX. But, those type of students usually also take well over 2000 practice questions before actually taking NCLEX. I honestly feel that ATI only prepares you to take ATI exams, NOT NCLEX!!

Has any academic organization actually examined the testing validity of the NECLEX examinations? I know this may seem like heresy to some but I think the emperor's pants are missing... The question the academic leadership should ask is "is this test actually measuring the competence needed to become a fully functioning competent nurse?" ... I am beginning to think that the only thing it measures is can you jump through a set of hoops that someone has created. In other words can you make it past my set of tricks is not the same as measuring knowledge. Very interested in replies to this from experienced nurses and especially any nursing professors or professors of testing processes/test creation.