After graduating from college with a degree in a totally unrelated field in 2005, I decided to go back to school for nursing last year. As a single working mom, a local LPN program made the most sense; I'll do an LPN to RN program further down the road. Took the TEAS last March with a composite in the 95th percentile nationally, and thus far I've pushed through the year with all A's and B's. I'm in an accelerated program, meaning I'm in lecture, lab, or clinical 5 days/week all day (I work midnights, believe it or not), and I'm 2 weeks from graduating. We've had to take the ATI tests the past 3 weeks and have several more. I did well on Fundamentals and Med Surge, terrible on Pharm (I was utterly unprepared). I scored in the 99th for Fundamentals and 89th for Med Surge. Pharm was embarrassingly low.
How accurate are these tests as predictors in one's success in passing the NCLEX-PN?