Has ATI Testing helped you during Nursing school?

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This might be a dumb question, but just wondering if ATI has helped you while youre in nursing school or how has it helped you. I am starting clinicals and still getting used to this program. I have heard some mixed reviews about how its helped ppl at my school to be successful or not.

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Yes :D

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Specializes in Critical Care Transport, Cardiac ICU, Rapid.

ATI sucks in my opinion. Gave me a 30% chance of passing the NCLEX and I passed it in the minimum amount of questions in 40 minutes. I graduate and sit for my NCLEX-RN in December

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.
This might be a dumb question, but just wondering if ATI has helped you while youre in nursing school or how has it helped you. I am starting clinicals and still getting used to this program. I have heard some mixed reviews about how its helped ppl at my school to be successful or not.

Absolutely helpful. I passed NCLEX in 50 minutes with 75 and I attribute it to the ATI testing during school. I did not use any other sources. ATI is harder than HESI (so I hear).

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I didn't find the ATI helpful. I passed NCLEX on my first try using the Hurst video lectures and doing UWorld questions.

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I think it's garbage -- overtly difficult, not reflective of how you'll actually do on the NCLEX. The school I attend decided to abandon ATI for Kaplan and I definitely prefer the change.

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Yes for nursing school. No for NCLEX. I went for LPN, and we were forced to get the ATI package. For our tests, maybe 1-5 questions (one time, about 20 questions) were similar to ATI ones. We also were required to do ATI's review week where they left us with a workbook. I used the ATI paperback books through nursing school mainly for the questions. They helped a lot, but I didn't always absorb the nitty gritty details. The workbook given after review week was just a condensed LPN school textbook. Signs and symptoms of everything along with nursing interventions, etc.

My problem with ATI (Especially the online component) is that the rationales were sometimes:

A is the answer because it's the answer.

B is not the answer because it's not the answer.

C is not the answer because it's not the answer.

D is not the answer because it's not the answer.

Helpful, no?

I'm grateful for allnurses. I saw a lot of people were recommending UWorld. Although it's expensive, its rationales helped me understand why A is the answer. I'll definitely refer back to my ATI stuff if I get accepted into this RN program, but I just hope I won't be required to purchase the package again.

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It is a waste of time and money. Idk why schools are forced to bring ATI into their programs, but somebody is making lots of money beacuse of this (besides ATI). Theirs tests are out of this world and their rationales are so lame and absurd. I know a good amount of nurses that fail ATI during their programs but succeeded at nclex and professionally. They need to improve a lot, it is unreal and freaking expensive for what they offer to you.

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Ati has a great section on nclex strategies. If you are studying cardiac and you find a section on cardiac to study, then that may accidentally help, but for the most part, I found doing the course to be in the way of studying my notes.

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ATI is garbage, period. Our school is forcing this crap down our throats. I'm guessing this has to do with money because NO ONE recommends ATI. There is not one person I know that says this is helpful. Their study guides are about as organized and helpful as a clown car full of blind monkeys. Throw them in the trash and use Kaplan like normal people. I want my money back that I was forced to pay for this trash.

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It’s helped me with NCLEX strategies and prioritization... I have not taken the NCLEX yet though so I can’t say how close it is to the NCLEX.

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Passed my NCLEX in 75 questions in about 1 hour & 30 minutes. Did ATI help me? Absolutely not. It is a waste of time and my instructors had us to assignments on it every semester as busy work. Although they have pretty "OK" practice exams, everything else like their review books, strategies, etc are pointless and unorganized. You are better off getting a Saunders NCLEX practice book and/or Uworld (didn't use it but I hear great things).

My school had us do a 1 week review ATI NCLEX prep M-F about 7 hours each day before we graduated. I just browsed reddit the entire time.

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