Question about ATI prep course

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Our school has recently implemented the ATI testing program in our final semester. I am curious, has anyone else used this NCLEX prep and if it accurately determines your possibilities of passing the NCLEX on the first try. We do two practice tests and receive scores and then need to remediate in which ever areas we score below a 70% on. At the end of the semester we will have a proctored exam for ATI and that will give us a determination if we will pass NCLEX or not on the first try.

Regardless of what I would get I still plan on doing a review course for NCLEX. But if you took this ATI course did it help you?

Thanks in advance for any input!

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I took ATI as part of my school exit exam. It was good. I think it depends on the person who's teaching the class. They go over a lot of questions and teach from the answers. They also open up a lot of practice exams and diagnostic exam for you to take. I liked the class, I don't like the content so much. The book for the review is small and the questions asked in the practice tests are way more detailed than the information given in the book. Use it for questions but I would study content from somewhere else, like the Saunders (I don't like Kaplan's content). Good luck!!!!

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My school used ATI as well. I thought the practice was good, although I didn't really utilize it like I should have until 4th semester.

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I will say this. My school uses ATI and we did the comprehensive predictor. My first attempt at it was an embarrassing 15% to pass first time. This was a wake up call of course and it got me worried. I started studying religiously (as in doing something everyday on a routine schedule without tiring myself) not ridiculously (like finishing 5000 questions in one week). Our school also enforces a mandatory 3 day ATI live review to receive our ATT. I do believe that helped as during my studying for the NCLEX there were a number of moments where I thought, "Oh yeah, we covered that in the review."

A comparison here is, I got 15% to pass first time, a friend of mine got 98% when she took hers(she graduated a year before me). As of today I am an RN (well not till I get my license but I passed) and I passed the NCLEX at 75 questions. My friend has failed it 3 times already and is working on her 4th attempt right now.

My point in mentioning this is: I do believe that ATI helped. It's the majority of what I studied the week before my nclex, taking every single practice exam and doing all the Live Review exams twice. When you do take the predictor, do not take your % to pass to heart. When you take it, its determining your chance if you took the NCLEX right then. Don't get a big head if you got a high % and don't give up if you got a really low % like I did. Because quite frankly, the knowledge base for the NCLEX is bigger than what you learned in nursing school, at least here.

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My school allowed recent graduates to use the ATI. We were able to take it on our own, and once we got over 70% moved on to the next section (fundamentals, pharm, med-surge, ect) until we completed them all and took the ATI predictor. However, if we attended a live session at school we got 10 codes for tests in different areas, as well as two timed comprehensive tests. I took all those tests, and only ever finished four sections and their predictor (taken the night before my NCLEX exam) scored me at 40%. I was a wreck the night/day of my test! But I passed, I'm licensed and NCLEX-PN stopped at 85qs for me. :D

Like aikaser2RN said, it helps (I think it was getting into the habit of testing and the resources they gave us) but I wouldn't rely heavily on it. Use outside sources too! Saunders was a huge help. As was the NCLEX Mastery app!

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