HESI, ATI, and Boards...

[momandstudent]

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.

[caliotter3]

I wouldn't be concerned with trying to make comparisons. Any way you look at it, you need to know the fundamentals to be able to read a question and determine the answer they want.