erickaann

I am awful at studying but what worked for me was buying the study guide the ATI website offers and also the two practice tests. I took one practice test right away before I studied at all just to see where I was at. I got a 60. I then made notecards of every bolded term in the study guide. Read the study guide front to back. Memorized the notecards. Then took each individual chapter test in the study guide. Everything I got wrong I went back and worked on some more. Lastly I took the final exam at the end of the study guide. Again, anything I got wrong I went back and worked on. When I was finally confident I took my final practice exam and I got a 70. This made me really nervous because I needed to be in the top 65th percentile (around an 80) to get into my program. I took the Teas the next day and got a 78.5. I know if I would have taken it again I could have gotten well over an 80 because while I studied I never looked at the English section because I was so confident in my English knowledge. Little did I know I would have to know the meaning of simple predicates, simple subjects, things like that. I scored the lowest on English. Which I always figured would be my strong suit. So! Study everything. The practice tests are harder than the real thing. The only thing not covered in the Teas book was the earth's rotation of the sun and clouds (types) which I watched youtube videos on after learning these things were not in the Teas study guide from reading through lots of postings on this website (allnurses) about the Teas test. Good luck to everyone!