Nursing program exit exam?

[Beldar_the_Cenobite, CNA]

What's the exit exam like in most nursing schools? Is it like non-nursing related questions or is it nursing related questions? My program gave us an ATI test at the beginning of our program and it asked us weird questions with no relation to anatomy or nursing and I scored a 47% and my teacher said "You have a lot of improvement" or something like that. I scored the highest in Analysis, but lowest in interpretation. What's funny is I took the HESI exam for another program and I scored even on reading and grammar, which is analytical and interpretation. I don't even know what it was supposed to ask, but I think she said we'll have an exit exam like it that we need to pass. WOW!? Why? Pay all this money and learn all this stuff only to be told you can't graduate because you can't pass a test that's not related to nursing school? A TA who went over stuff before our exam said, "You'll have one, but once you get through nursing school, it'll all make sense", so how I'll be able to comprehend weird questions like it learning more about nursing, I won't know. But that will suck if I get through nursing school and can't pass that weird exam if I have to take it again.

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the General Student discussion forum

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

An exit exam is just a huge, comprehensive final exam. It mirrors NCLEX questions, and if you passed all of your courses should be able to pass the exit exam.

HESI and ATI make many, many exams. Entrance exams are to judge your baseline knowledge of science, math and reading. Exit exams are very different- just made by the same company. (Like Heinz makes ketchup and pickles and beans)

[gere7404, BSN, RN]

the nclex?

[llg, PhD, RN]

As meanmaryjean wrote, an "exit exam" is a comprehensive final exam covering all the material you learned in the program. In this case, it would all the content you learned in nursing school. Most schools use an exam that they purchase from a major company (such as HESI or ATI). Others create their own final exam.

Take it seriously, but there is no need to "freak out" about it. If you do well in your courses, you should do OK on the final exam, assuming that you do some review before the test.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Mine used ATI, which gave a prediction score on how you were likely to fare on the NCLEX based on how you did on the exit exam. It was comprehensive and broad in scope, with the potential to cover any and all of the things we studied throughout the nursing program. There is no need to freak out, but if you aren't doing well on exams during school you aren't likely to do well on it either.