SamIam13

Exactly, the ATI Virtual review offered nothing different than what was offered to me through school. Their advertisement sounds great, but I did not receive "individual support" from my instructor. I would only get an email letting me know whether or not I met standards for each test. That's not support, I can look at the score and see whether or not I scored a 60. The online assessments of 500+ questions they refer to, are just practice tests that you've already done... each TOTALING over 500, not that each test is that long. The review materials of print, they are not hard copies. You have to read each page from your computer for each section (there are 5 or 6 sections, x 600 pages each). The videos that they speak of are also the same videos that were offered through school from the atitesting.com website; nothing from their website or anything different than I already had. Buying Saunder's has better review material with questions at the end of each chapter. Again, ATI is 600 pages for EACH section so essentially that 600 pages turns into 3,000+. Some people might prefer to read that many pages from the computer, but I prefer hard copy material when reading a large amount of content. You're right, I probably won't get my money back, but I am at least trying to warn other people not to waste their money. I hope that anyone considering purchasing the ATI review will at least read my review and think twice.

They have a ton of videos reviewing practice questions & how to apply the decision tree. I'm not sure if you've seen it on their site, but that's what helped me understand the decision tree the most.

I also had a high level of anxiety after I failed. It's best to choose a retest date and stick to it. In a strange way, it will push you to keep studying and get it over with; everything you learned is still fresh in your mind. You don't want to postpone it!

For those of you considering taking ATI Virtual Review for NCLEX, DO NOT DO IT! I wish I found some reviews prior to paying for the course, but now I am trying to share with everyone possible on how TERRIBLE the program is!! During my nursing program the course used ATI practice reviews, some colleges use HESI; mine used ATI. First, ATI advertises their course as providing one-on-one coaching and a study plan. The study plan is a generic plan that is used based on your overall score, not based on your "weak" areas. And there is no one-on-one, you take the test, if you don't score a 60 or above, your instructor e-mails you to let you know you didn't meet requirements. There is no "chat" with your instructor, you send an email... you wait a day for a reply and so on. My ATI instructor would give me practice test codes which I later realized were the same exact tests I did in nursing school. When I approached my "ATI instructor" about this, she told me those were the only codes she had. How can you learn from something you already did? Anyway, after you complete a test, you have to do a focused review (which is provided for free even if you don't pay for the course) The focused review consists of anywhere from 200-600 pages LITERALLY of content material that they want you to review. Who wants to sit at their computer & read 600 pages of content? ATI does NOT provide any written materials. I decided to give ATI a chance, maybe I was missing something, maybe it would get better. I waited 3 weeks in hopes there'd be something to show that I didn't waste my money. Nope. So I attempted to contact the company by phone. I was referred to email the administration because they don't deal with customers through the phone. Since I couldn't contact anyone any other way, I did send an email expressing my concern that I had already taken the tests they're providing and was hoping they'd have extra material. Essentially, I got no reply acknowledging repeat exams. ATI Virtual Review is so worthless that I have not even tried to log back into their website. Instead, I signed up for Kaplan & bought a Saunder's Content Review Book.

Hello all, I have been using this site for some time now to help alleviate some of my NCLEX worries. I failed NCLEX on the 1st attempt at 76 questions. I thought I failed miserably and that it would be nearly impossible to recover from. WRONG... I passed on the second attempt (2 months later) and passed at 78 questions. For those of you that still wonder if the PVT is accurate, it was for me on both exams. So how did I pass NCLEX the second attempt? 1) Kaplan- The Decision Tree definitely helps in deciding what is "priority" or what you should do "next". I used Kaplans Decision Tree and watched numerous demonstration videos on how to apply it to the questions. I also did ALL QTrainer questions & a lot of QBank questions. The questions are worded very similarly to NCLEX. I did NOT watch any content review videos. My QTrainer scores: QTrainer1: 56, QTrainer2: 65, QTrainer3: 54, QTrainer4: 56, QTrainer5: 60, QTrainer6: 61, Qtrainer7: 57 2) Saunders Comprehensive Review- I took out notebook paper & read through the entire book. Anything that I was unsure of content-wise or anything that looked like good material to review again (things in red, etc) I wrote out on my notebook paper. Once I was done with the book, I typed out my notes and reviewed them for about 2 weeks. The Saunders book has such good material that I plan on keeping the book. 3) Exam Cram Q&A Book. Of course this is just a Q&A book so it doesn't necessarily teach you anything, but the more questions you do, the more familiar you'll be with content and ways to apply your knowledge.