How To Pass ATI Exams

If your nursing program uses ati, you won't want to miss this video. We'll dive into how to pass your ATI nursing school exams and use them to your advantage while studying in nursing school. Let's dive in now. Hands down, the most crucial rule you need to follow when studying for ATI is to start studying early. Not giving yourself enough time to study and having to cram for those exams are the top reason that I see students not do as well as they hoped to. They didn't give themselves enough time to prepare, to study and to learn the information. Please don't cram the night before or the day before your exam. You need to give yourself time to absorb and actually learn the information, not just memorize it for a short time. ATI exams are looking to see that you are able to critically think, put the puzzle pieces together and connect the information. And memorizing last minute will not help you do this. You need to time to absorb the information so you can retain it and apply it to the questions. If your school does a mix of lecture exams and ATI exams, you have to juggle both. This is becoming more common, so make sure that you do not procrastinate on this. Study a little bit every day and don't wait until the last minute studying for at least an hour or two every day. Even if you just quickly review your notes in the parking lot or run through flashcards while you wait to pick up your children from school, you will be be really surprised at how much you remember when you go take your exam. So giving your brain the time to absorb, to digest, and then really start to form connections and critically think will make all the difference for these exams. For more of my top study tips, don't miss this free study checklist that I have for you. It will give you a breakdown of the best study strategies to use in nursing school to help you pass. Now, I'll put a link to that in the description below for you to snag it. Alright, so you promise me that you'll start studying early and keep studying consistently, right? But now you're probably thinking, how do I even know what to study for these ATI exams? And that is a valid question my friend, because these exams are comprehensive and they cover so much. So step number one is this. Don't freak out. The good news is that if you are studying the content ahead of time, really breaking it down, and learning the concept step by step, you will be able to critically think through those questions. You'll connect what you know you'll be able to apply it to the question being asked when it comes to studying for ati. If you have access to the online ATI resources and modules, use them please and go through that a little bit every day. There is a lot of material there, so you don't want to wait until the day before your exam to go through it. Go through the modules, take notes on the things you don't understand, and then pull up those topics in your book and learn more about it there. So along with reading the sections of the book that you're instructors, your professors covered in class, you will also want to read the parts from your online modules that you don't understand. Now, that being said, it can be slippery slope balancing reading the important sections of the book and not fully reading every single page in the book, right? You've heard me say time and time again on this channel, the goal is not to read the entire book just for the sake of reading it. The key to passing nursing school is to find focus your study time on the things that matter. So focus on studying the things that your instructor talked about in class and the things that are covered in your ATI modules and slides. And with that, make sure that you're focusing on the information that you don't yet know. Really be honest with yourself here. Your brain is going to want to stay in its comfort zone and keep reviewing things that you already know, but that's a huge waste of time. So make sure that you are spending your time studying the things that you don't yet know or you're not confident in. The next thing you will want to do is to make sure that you are fully prepared for your ATI exam is to take all the practice tests. My friend, I cannot even tell you how many students have told me the same thing. They thought the ATI practice tests were just busy work, but when they did them, it ended up making a huge difference in their grade. The practice tests are a really great indicator of what your ATI exam will cover and a really great way to get in the critical thinking mindset. So incorporating the practice questions into your studying as you go and making time to review the rationale for those questions so you fully understand what the question is asking. It will go a long way to helping you pass. Here's another tip that will really convince you just how important taking these practice tests really are and how much you can benefit from it. So ATI exams are testing banks. So they're essentially trying to simulate the NCLEX and make sure that you are Capable of being a safe and competent nurse who can critically think and problem solve through caring for a patient. Right now, the best part is that since these are test bank exams, they have a big variety of questions and a good probability that some of the practice questions will repeat and show up on your actual exam. And even if it isn't word for word the same question, the concept that they're trying to get across, across and test you on will be the same. So the more practice questions you do and the more rationales you review, the more likely you are going to be familiar with the actual exam question. If you have time and can schedule these in ahead of time, I recommend spacing them apart so you can have time to go back and look at why you got the questions wrong and really take the time to fully understand the critical thinking in the question. This is absolutely vital. You must go through the rationales, my friend, especially for the questions that you got wrong in the practice tests. You want to space out the practice test so you'll be able to take one, go through it and look at the rationales and then take the next one. The goal is to increase your grade each time you take the practice test, and a huge key in doing that is by going back through the rationales and understanding why you got questions wrong in the first place. So make sure to go through each question question that you got wrong and figure out why. So don't just take all of your practice tests in one sitting just for the sake of saying that you did it. Space them out and give yourself time to absorb the content and really learn from the practice questions. Now, if you needed another reason why you should be doing the practice questions for these ATI exams, don't worry, I have one more for you. Just as you would practice soccer in order to fine tune your skills and be more confident as a soccer player, the same concept applies when it comes to answering NCLEX style questions. The more practice you get at answering those ATI practice questions or NCLEX style questions and learning why the correct answer is what it is, you will be much more prepared for when you go take your proctored ATI exam and the nclex. These test bank exams are designed to prepare you to take the NCLEX exam. So one of the major benefits of taking all of these practice exams is that you are really training your brain how to answer these questions. Sorting through the keywords, the concepts, they're testing you on the wording and the overall layout of the exam questions. So the more practice that you get with these NCLEX style questions, the better off you're going to be when it comes time for you to take your ATI proctored exam and the nclex. Remember, these exams are designed to be comprehensive and they can be very tough, but they will highly prepare you to take the NCLEX exam. So keep practicing. Another thing to keep in mind as you prepare and especially when you sit down to take your ATI exam is that they can throw questions about anything and everything at you. So don't be freaked out when you come across a question that you don't know or you've never heard of before. And my friend, just do your best to answer it and move on to the next question. Don't freak out about it. It is easy to let our brains wander into that self doubt cycle when we get a question like this thrown at us. But don't spiral down that path, okay? Do your best to answer the question, remind yourself of another question that you definitely knew the answer to and move forward. Don't let one question psych you out and spiral down and that's self doubt cycle. You are so capable my friend of doing this. You are prepared for this exam. You can do this. Now learning how to study and take the ATI exam is one thing. Now it's a whole other thing to actually learn how to answer ATI and NCLEX questions, right? So click on this video here where I'm going to give you the best strategies to pick the most correct answer on your exams. And as always my friend, go become the nurse that God created only you to be and I will see you over there in that next video.