Not Happy And Little Time Left!

[trustar]

Okay ppl I am working w/ ATI and I have about 3 1/2 weeks before I go to take my test. When I take the ati test for each sec. it's says I need more work in those areas. But when I took the inital comp. I passed in the areas. Im not mad at the fact that I may need more work but I am mad b/c I dont have much time and I already pushed my test date back and this is not giving me the faith I need in my skills:angryfire . I worked very hard to get here and last week I did not want to look @ another nclex book. But I got back on track but now I feel bad once more b/c the scores got worse not better. I am so scraed I will not pass this test. I know I am not the only one but I have to pass. I dont want to push my test back but I dont want to fail myself either.

[NJNursing, ASN, RN]

First of all, take a deep breath and calm down. I took many, many ATI's and it always told me I needed work in everything, but I always passed the tests. Don't go by what you need work on, go by how you scored. Do you guys have the topic-based ATI's? Like a test for maternity, one for peds, one for cardio, etc..... That's a better indication of what your weak spots are.

I know the feeling of freaking out before the NCLEX. Have you taken the Kaplan question trainers? I think that they were the best indicator of how the NCLEX is really laid out where the questions are difficult and it often came between 2 answers. I'm not using mine anymore and I've got access to it until September, so I'd be more than happy to let you use it for the extra practice.

[trustar]

Oh, thank you so much. Yes it's the topic based ATI. I don't know anything about Kaplan so if you can help me in that area I will be thankful for it. Yes I do need to calm down but the fear has hold of me and that's what gets me down.

[willdgate]

I was there like 3 weeks ago, have confidence in yourself and stay focused.