HESI, ATI, and Boards...

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Good evening. I am just wondering if anyone can shed some light for my classmates and I...Are boards similiar to the HESI or to the ATI? Or are they in a world all of their own? For example, I took the HESI and the ATI comprehensive in the middle of April and didn't study a bit (and I mean a bit) and passed both. This was about the middle of April. Then we started the ATI online tutoring that our school provides us with and I am barely passing the assessments. I know that NCLEX changed their testing standards and because of this, the ATI program changed also (which is a good thing). But my question is: what are boards REALLY like? Are they similiar to HESI, ATI, Saunder's Comprehensive, or the Made Easy Series questions? A few of us are really starting to panic because the ATI is by no means easy and are hard to pass. Should we be fretting and having the anxiety attacks we are or should we just do the best we can and go on to studying with other materials? Any advice is greatly appreciated because we are all questioning ourselves and our abilities to pass. :eek:

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Specializes in NICU.

I didn't do the ATI online review, just the proctored subject area tests and the comprehensive predictor, but I found them VERY similar to the NCLEX. The question styles were identical, and the wording was very similarly styled. I can't comment on any other testing systems or reviews, because I didn't use any of them.

My only NCLEX studyig consisted of a little ATI review. I passed with 75 questions the first time, took me 40 minutes.

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I don't know about ATI, my school uses HESI. I personally found HESI easier than NCLEX. With that said, the idea of HESI is whatever percentage you pass by, you have a corrolating chance of passing the NCLEX. The recommendation I believe is 850...so for that score would translate to whatever percentage depend on the difficulty of the exam. Hope that helps.

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Specializes in NICU PEDS.

ATI is easier than the NCLEX. The questions that were similar to the NCLEX style were the Kaplan NCLEX practice questions.

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