Confused with TEAS results...and some questions (newbee here)

RNTutor, BSN, RN · Jun 27, 2010

Hi finalscore3b1g, and welcome to allnurses!

I've never taken the TEAS test myself and am not that familiar with it, but am trying to learn because I have a lot of students asking me for help with it. There is a good post here where someone explains what the TEAS test scores mean: https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/can-someone-help-336679.html

40 might be the minimum score to be considered for your program, but whether it's "good enough" will depend on how well the other applicants scored, too. So the higher the score, the better! And although you think the Adjusted Total Individual score is low, the Percentile Rank-Program score is really a better number to look at. That tells you that you scored higher than 90% of students who took TEAS at your school. The Percentile Rank-National score would tell you how you did compared to all the students in the country that took TEAS.

dudette10, MSN, RN · Jun 27, 2010

If your school will be using ATI testing throughout, you'll see these scores over and over again. Here's the quick rundown on what they mean.

My scores are confusing to me. Also, the nursing program seems to be hush hush as far as trying to get information. After my test, the results were printed and the guy pointed to my Percentile Rank-Program which is a 90 and said it needed to be above 40. OK, so I guess I passed but my Adjusted Individual Total Score is a 78.7% (seems really low compared to the 90).

Your adjusted individual score is the percentage of questions you got right, just like on any school exam. You got 78.7% of the questions correct.

SOME tests also "adjust for difficulty." If that is done for the particular test (and I haven't figured out which tests have that done and which haven't), the same difficulty score is used on everyone's test for the same test version. Regardless, just think of that the adjusted individual total score as the percentage of questions you got right on the test.

Percentile score is a bit different. Using your scores as an example, it means that 90% of the people who took the test had an adjusted individual total score of LESS THAN 78.7%; conversely, only 10% of test takers scored ABOVE 78.7%.

I'm only going to my county college for an ADN RN, I guess my score wouldn't need to be top notch? I've seen other posts on here that say under an 80 is failing?

Depends on the school's requirements. Each school is able to pick the percentile score a test taker must have in order to be accepted. Your school requires only a 40th percentile to be eligible for acceptance.

FYI: The mean national average and mean program average on the ATI test report indicates the average adjusted individual total score nationally and for your particular program. When you take ATI assessments after each class (if your school requires them), the mean national average also indicates the minimum number of questions correct for that particular test version to qualify for an ATI Level 2.

These minimums for ATI Level 2 change over time for the same test and for different versions of tests because they are all dependent on the average scores for all the test takers nationwide.

finalscore3b1g · Jun 27, 2010

Thank you both so much for the info and clarification:up::)