TEAS: School limits your attempts?

[Jhotmail]

Ok so I am confused as to why schools say youre only allowed X amount of attempts to take your TEAS, but yet they tell you "Make sure you send us a copy of your score, or else we wont know you took it"

My question is: How would they ever know you took it 2, 3, or 4 times within a year if the only way they can obtain your score is by you sending it to them? I mean..... any person would just take it a few times and send their best score in regardless of the "schools limit" on attempts.

[OliveOyl91, BSN, RN]

The TEAS is taken electronically at my school. The program requirements state that we can only take it once every 6 months, regardless of where we took it. If we take the TEAS more than twice, we lose completion points off of our application. If we don't disclose all attempts (since they are all recorded by ATI), then we could be barred from the program.

[xxstarrynitesxx]

ATI does not automatically send your test scores to your school. There are some schools that invite their top applicants to take the TEAS at that particular school effectively eliminating the need for having to send your scores to them. Other schools do not have this option and their students take the TEAS when they can. My school in particular will only accept the first TEAS score.

While I have not taken it myself, it might be that ATI would keep record of all your attempts and send all them to your school. Like thewhitechickoj mentioned, if you do not disclose all attempts when you apply, then your application may be thrown out due to dishonesty. I would personally hate to have all of my hard work go right down the drain. Prepare as best as you can. Worse case, you may have to consider looking into other schools that will accept multiple attempts.

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

For my program, we have to send our score through ATI. A copy of the results won't suffice.

Regardless, schools have access to the results, and I'm sure they check them before an offer is extended. The copy you provide is probably just preliminary.

Taking the test again and hoping not to get caught is not something I'd risk.

[ukuleleCat]

When I went to an info session, the counselor said that the paperwork would say something like 1 of 2. or 2 of 2 when ATI sent it to them. You would have to send all results, including results from old versions of the TEAS that are no longer accepted because if you sent the recent results, it would say 2 of 2, and the department would not know if the 1 of 2 was an out of date version or previous attempt of the current version.