I have to take the exit exam on Wednesday, and my school is going to give us 2016 version of the test:(...any advise on how should I prep for the test. we need to get 80% (99th percentile) to graduate 22nd august.
I have been taking 2013 exits...funda,pharm,leadership,mgmt,psych,nutrition,capstone,OB,Peds,critical thinking...
SUPER Stressed for this test though....
Any guidance on what kindaa questions nomally ati asks? what are common answers??PLEASE HELP ASAP:madface:
I took the 2016 version this morning and got 76.7%. On the proctored practice A at the beginning of the semester I got 66%, then on proctored practice B towards the end of the semester I got 70% and this was after doing 12 weeks of Capstone. I didn't study much. There are a lot of questions that repeat themselves but are asked differently. And there are only a handful of meds, and there are several questions asking about that specific medication. I'm in an ADN program and we were only required to get 90% probability of passing, so 69.3%.
Know your labs!! This is the most important. Labs will always be on a test!
I also heard there's a Comprehensive Review book that REALLY helps with the Comprehensive Exam, but we won't get ours until next week during the 3 day live review.
We only had access to the 2013 practice tests, not the 2016 (even though we had to take the 2016 Exit exam lol) ones so I didn't see any similar questions.
Specializes in med surge, Interventional radiology,.
I just took the 2016 comp predictor a few weeks ago and i can say the test is way easier then any other ati test. So if you have been studying throughout your program and using ati you should do fine. I got an 84% on the test which means that the nclex pass rate will be 99%.
Hey yall, just took the ATI comprehensive predictor today and I passed with an 82%. I've been looking for information about taking this test weeks in advance and it was hard to find information about the content of the exam. First, it's 180 questions and they give you 3hrs to take it and only 150 questions are counted towards the actual grade. So here are my thoughts and strategies for prepping for the exam.
I noticed the content covered was mostly general AMS (Cushing's Disease, sterile technique, procedures, manifestations of hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hypocalemia, etc), Maternity, priority delegation, and a lot of labs K+, Na+, Ca. Mental health came up a few times, as well as NCC and a hand full of community nursing.
What I did to prepare for the exam was (1) write down all the labs values throughout the each book and memorized them (should be doing this throughout the program). (2) go through all of the practice questions in Learning Systems RN 2.0 and all of the practice exams under the "Test" tab (all the medsurg exams and redo all of the practice A&B to refresh on Fundalmentals, Maternity, Pharmacology, NCC, Community Nursing), fortunately we had the Medsurg Proctored earlier in the week which helped us. (3) I made sure to understand all of the rationales and if I didn't I would go into the books and try to find the answer. (4) Write down key words when doing the practice quiz's and look them up as I took the practice exams, I also would retake the small quiz's over and over again until I got at least an 75% on them.
My thoughts on the exam is that it wasn't as hard as I thought. The anticipation of the actual test was worse than the exam. Go to bed early the night before wake up an hour earlier than usual, lightly go over the material before the test. Eat a light healthy high in complex carbs/protein breakfast before for brain energy and avoid high caffeinated drinks. I will be more than willing to share my remediation with those who are interested but PM me.
I cannot emphasize the importance of not procrastinating. Start studying at least a few weeks before. There is no way a normal person can memorize everything in those books and exams but in my mind the key to success in nursing is to understand the material more than memorizing it. Good luck future nurses!
I'm about to take the comprehensive predictor following the Virtual ATI Review. I got through the entire review in less than two weeks by virtue of sticking my nose in ATI constantly. I just took the practice comprehensive assessment and scored an 88% on it, so I'm assuming the predictor is going to go well for me, also. The comprehensive assessments are always easier than the assessments for each content area because they're more broad and you just don't have to know things in as much detail as you would for an assessment that's focused on one area in particular.
My recommendation to anyone getting ready for this is to eat, drink, and sleep ATI so that even if you don't know the specific content you're being asked about, you'll still be able to pick out what to focus on and make a good guess.
Hey Geezer79, I was trying to send you a PM but couldn't. I have to take my comprehensive soon and was wondering if you have any more recommendations on how to prepare for it
Hey yall, just took the ATI comprehensive predictor today and I passed with an 82%. I've been looking for information about taking this test weeks in advance and it was hard to find information about the content of the exam. First, it's 180 questions and they give you 3hrs to take it and only 150 questions are counted towards the actual grade. So here are my thoughts and strategies for prepping for the exam.
I noticed the content covered was mostly general AMS (Cushing's Disease, sterile technique, procedures, manifestations of hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hypocalemia, etc), Maternity, priority delegation, and a lot of labs K+, Na+, Ca. Mental health came up a few times, as well as NCC and a hand full of community nursing.
What I did to prepare for the exam was (1) write down all the labs values throughout the each book and memorized them (should be doing this throughout the program). (2) go through all of the practice questions in Learning Systems RN 2.0 and all of the practice exams under the "Test" tab (all the medsurg exams and redo all of the practice A&B to refresh on Fundalmentals, Maternity, Pharmacology, NCC, Community Nursing), fortunately we had the Medsurg Proctored earlier in the week which helped us. (3) I made sure to understand all of the rationales and if I didn't I would go into the books and try to find the answer. (4) Write down key words when doing the practice quiz's and look them up as I took the practice exams, I also would retake the small quiz's over and over again until I got at least an 75% on them.
My thoughts on the exam is that it wasn't as hard as I thought. The anticipation of the actual test was worse than the exam. Go to bed early the night before wake up an hour earlier than usual, lightly go over the material before the test. Eat a light healthy high in complex carbs/protein breakfast before for brain energy and avoid high caffeinated drinks. I will be more than willing to share my remediation with those who are interested but PM me.
I cannot emphasize the importance of not procrastinating. Start studying at least a few weeks before. There is no way a normal person can memorize everything in those books and exams but in my mind the key to success in nursing is to understand the material more than memorizing it. Good luck future nurses!
thank you for the detail information and advisement-its highly appreciated! :).
Hey yall, just took the ATI comprehensive predictor today and I passed with an 82%. I've been looking for information about taking this test weeks in advance and it was hard to find information about the content of the exam. First, it's 180 questions and they give you 3hrs to take it and only 150 questions are counted towards the actual grade. So here are my thoughts and strategies for prepping for the exam.
I noticed the content covered was mostly general AMS (Cushing's Disease, sterile technique, procedures, manifestations of hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hypocalemia, etc), Maternity, priority delegation, and a lot of labs K+, Na+, Ca. Mental health came up a few times, as well as NCC and a hand full of community nursing.
What I did to prepare for the exam was (1) write down all the labs values throughout the each book and memorized them (should be doing this throughout the program). (2) go through all of the practice questions in Learning Systems RN 2.0 and all of the practice exams under the "Test" tab (all the medsurg exams and redo all of the practice A&B to refresh on Fundalmentals, Maternity, Pharmacology, NCC, Community Nursing), fortunately we had the Medsurg Proctored earlier in the week which helped us. (3) I made sure to understand all of the rationales and if I didn't I would go into the books and try to find the answer. (4) Write down key words when doing the practice quiz's and look them up as I took the practice exams, I also would retake the small quiz's over and over again until I got at least an 75% on them.
My thoughts on the exam is that it wasn't as hard as I thought. The anticipation of the actual test was worse than the exam. Go to bed early the night before wake up an hour earlier than usual, lightly go over the material before the test. Eat a light healthy high in complex carbs/protein breakfast before for brain energy and avoid high caffeinated drinks. I will be more than willing to share my remediation with those who are interested but PM me.
I cannot emphasize the importance of not procrastinating. Start studying at least a few weeks before. There is no way a normal person can memorize everything in those books and exams but in my mind the key to success in nursing is to understand the material more than memorizing it. Good luck future nurses!
Thanks dude! Will be looking back at this when my time comes
I took predictor A in August, got a 76 which was the 2nd highest in my class of 40. Then after 8 weeks of helpful quizzes and annoying homework, I got an 89.3 on part B, and last Thursday I took the 185 question predictor and got an 84. Our school just requires that you hit 70, and friends passed the nclex easily without ever getting above high 60's. Mine is an ASN community college program with a 97% NCLEX pass rate. Im feeling pretty comfortable at this point. Its mostly getting into the groove of the nclex question style and yes, labs!
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I took the 2016 version this morning and got 76.7%. On the proctored practice A at the beginning of the semester I got 66%, then on proctored practice B towards the end of the semester I got 70% and this was after doing 12 weeks of Capstone. I didn't study much. There are a lot of questions that repeat themselves but are asked differently. And there are only a handful of meds, and there are several questions asking about that specific medication. I'm in an ADN program and we were only required to get 90% probability of passing, so 69.3%.
Know your labs!! This is the most important. Labs will always be on a test!
I also heard there's a Comprehensive Review book that REALLY helps with the Comprehensive Exam, but we won't get ours until next week during the 3 day live review.
We only had access to the 2013 practice tests, not the 2016 (even though we had to take the 2016 Exit exam lol) ones so I didn't see any similar questions.