What are the most necessary TEAS prep materials?

[kuvira]

Hey! I wanted to start studying for the TEAS and I have been going through a lot of topics regarding TEAS study material and I listed the ones I have seen the most. All in all, if I were to purchase all of them, it would cost a lot of money, so I'm wondering if I should get them all or if some are equally as good as others, and it's not necessary to buy all 4 materials.

McGraw Hill 5 TEAS Practice Tests

The ATI TEAS Study Manual

The ATI TEAS Practice Assessments

Nursing School Entrance exam by MGgraw Hill (for the TEAS science section)

I appreciate your help!

[Username invalid, RN]

ATI Teas Study Manual: $17 to rent from Amazon, $43 to buy.

ATI Online Practice Tests: $46 a pop. Do at least one.

The McGraw Hill practice tests: only $5.98 from Amazon.

The McGraw Hill Entrance Exam: only $11.93 if you buy used from Amazon.

Don't be tempted to buy dirt-cheap McGraw Hill products. They're cheap because they aren't relevant any longer. The TEAS VI was released on August 31st, 2016. --The other guys haven't updated their material since 2008. ATI regularly analyzes & updates TEAS questions. This means they can change official TEAS test questions! You want the newest, most relevant content to study from. You need to spend the money here.

[myungsup]

Bought the TEAS study manual, and one online practice test. Before I started studying the manual, I did the test portion at the end of each section as a pre-study barometer of what I needed to study in the manual. Then I studied the manual. Then I did the one online test I bought. Then I took the test.

As long as your critical thinking is decent, I think there should be no surprises when it comes to the test. It's about as hard as the study manual was. No, the questions weren't EXACTLY the same, but they were about the same difficulty. There wasn't anything CONCEPTWISE that was on the actual TEAS that wasn't covered in their manual.