NCLEX and ATI

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Hi, I graduated from my BSN program a few weeks ago and I'm scheduled to take the NCLEX-RN on June 17th. I have the ATI tutorial program to help me study, which we got through my school. I took the ATI comp predictor and got an 87% chance of passing on the first try.

So far, I've taken the fundamentals and the pharmacology practice tests and failed both even though I studied very hard for both of them! I did well in school and graduated with a 3.6, but I can't help but feel like I don't know anything when I take these ATI tests! It makes me very worried about failing the NCLEX.

Has anyone else used the ATI tutor? How do these tests compare to the actual NCLEX? Does anyone have an advice on how to study?

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Specializes in Women's Health NP.

I'm taking a review course now and the teacher said that ATI is MUCH harder than the actual NCLEX. It prepares you, but since it's much harder it can also break down your confidence. Coworkers of mine who used ATI/pased NCLEX last year said pretty much the same thing. Who knows if that's true, but if it is - don't let it get you down! Just keep studying, doing practice questions. That's all you can do. Learn the material and how to approach the questions.

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Congrats on graduating! We'll be taking NCLEX the same day! Our school required us to pass all of our ati exams. For pharm, I made a chart that they recommended in one of the videos when you go and remediate. It had different drug classifications, side effects, interactions, etc. I also looked around for a site that had prefixes and suffixes for drugs to help me break down what they were. It REALLY helped me. They gave us a comprehensive book at the ati live review and it kind of compressed a bunch of important fundamentals info ( proper crutch/cane gait, etc) do you look at the rationales when testing? I read ALL of them, no matter if I got the question right or wrong. Best of luck to you!

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Well I passed all my ATI exams that we had to take in class, it's just these ATI tutor exams that I'm failing! I'll just keep reviewing the content I guess!

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I hope it's much harder than the NCLEX! I'll just keep reviewing and hope that helps

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Specializes in Peds, Float, Ambulatory, Telemetry (new).

Yeah it is much harder than ATI. But I felt as though it helped me strengthen my weaker areas. Good luck on NCLEX

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what I got out of the ATI live review is to strive for better than 60% right on the review modules. I'm working on ATI now and also using Exam Cram...I'm scheduled for June 1st!

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ATI was integrated into my school's curriculum. ATI test are much harder than the NCLEX in my opinion. If you do fair on ATI you'll breeze through NCLEX.

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Used ATI throughout Nursing school .... passed NCLEX on first try with 75 questions

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Specializes in Women's Health NP.

TwinMom, do you like Exam Cram? I thought about picking it up (in addition to using ATI and the review course I just did). Curious as to what people thought of it. I know they used to promote a 'cram sheet' that you look at in your car and 'brain dump' when you got to the testing center, which is now not allowed.

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TwinMom, do you like Exam Cram? I thought about picking it up (in addition to using ATI and the review course I just did). Curious as to what people thought of it. I know they used to promote a 'cram sheet' that you look at in your car and 'brain dump' when you got to the testing center, which is now not allowed.

It says brain dumping isn't allowed but the only rule is to not start writing until after the tutorial is over. I don't see why you couldn't brain dump after the tutorial is over or how or why it would be against the rules.

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ATI didn't really help me that much, get a content review book like Saunders, do the content tests, get at least 80%. Then you need some critical thinking questions. I used http://www.learningext.com. It tis more content but it has a CT Q bank. My school used ATI as the final for each content area. Then we had to get a 95 on the predictor exam. ATI is tough. It's almost too much content! Good luck. Don't over think or add info to the questions. When you are done, do the Pearson vue trick!

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