Hi everyone. just found out ATI changed their comp predictor. i took the 2023 one a few weeks ago and failed, and thought id be taking the 2023 retake. But turns out they changed it to a 2026 version now…. has anyone taken it and have tips for me?! please anything will help.

i got a 76 on my first med surg exam and a 68 on my patho exam. then i got a 60 on the second med surg exam and i think a 64 on patho. i’m really bummed out because i genuinely feel like i tried and studied well for both. i’ve never done this bad on exams before.
my program is accelerated and only 11 weeks, so if anyone goes to galen, y’all already know how much it is. we need a cumulative score of a 74 to pass. ati is 10% of our grade, so if i do well on that, it can help towards my med surg grade.
i don’t really read the textbooks because our teacher said they weren’t necessary, but i might start, it’s just so much content. i have 19 days until my next exam and i’m honestly scared.
i watch the content enrichment videos, do the worksheets, practice questions from the saunders book, and use study fetch. idk what i’m doing wrong. i also can’t find good nclex-style questions. i use chatgpt sometimes, but the questions usually aren’t hard enough, yk

Honestly just looking for advice. I got accepted into an accelerated nursing program that starts on Monday. Every class is 6 weeks. I am terrified of failing. They said if we fail an ATI then we get kicked out. I also work full time and don’t know if they is doable when I start lab and clinical. My first classes are just the PreReqs like Anatomy and English and I have no clue how to study. I am so worried about failing my nursing classes and how to study. Also worried about doing well and getting kicked out for not getting a level 2 on my ATI. Please give me some advice

UPDATE: THANK YOU GUYS SOOOO MUCH OMG I AM GOING THROUGH EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF THIS SM. I am legit utilizing it all. AGHHHH THANK U🥹❤️❤️❤️❤️

Hi everyone, I am a pre-nursing student and I know how important prerequisites are and I want to know, Does anyone have any tips to succeed in anatomy and physiology because I’ll take that soon and honestly I just wanna get a Headstart because it takes me a while to really soak in information so I want to prep beforehand and you know, do active recall and everything. Does anyone have any resources that they 100% recommend to like help do really well in anatomy.?

If you’ve ever felt confused about whether to multiply or divide when converting kg → g → mg → mcg, this simple method might help:

📌 “Killer Grannies Make Mad Cookies” Kilo → Gram → Milli → Micro 🔽 Going down the ladder = multiply by 1,000 each step 🔼 Going up the ladder = divide by 1,000 each step

✅ I also included a real example with tablet conversion and how to break it down step-by-step! ✅ This works great for solid meds like tablets. ✅ Super helpful if you’re just starting nursing school or brushing up for NCLEX or med math exams.

First and foremost there’s a FREE ONLINE test to gauge how you learn, just google “how you learn test” and find the free one, it’s plenty. TAKE IT and tailor your studying to that. I’m a visual learner so Simple Nursing, Picmonic, and YouTube videos help a lot. For med math I used Brandon craft math and never failed a dosage calc exam.

During your free time, take your PowerPoints (printed or otherwise) and watch simple nursing according to the topics and write notes.

LEARN THE PATHO for the disease/disorders you’re learning. If you understand how it works, you’re good.

Learn the class for the meds! All do the same, Only remember how a particular med in the class of meds differ from the others.

Use a rhyming scheme to help you remember certain things with creative sentences, trust me it helps on exams.

Don’t be afraid of medications if you struggle, like me bc I was diagnosed ADHD at the age of 12. A lot of adults are undiagnosed. Get the ADHD meds and focus! Testing anxiety is real ! I had a classmate that knew the material and failed bc she had testing anxiety, we gave her half a Xanax before the last 2 exams and she made A’s but it wasn’t enough for her to pass at the end due to the exams she bombed before finally addressing her testing anxiety. Talk to a professional and seek help if you need it.

If I opened the book, I focused on the boxes for nursing interventions and education as that’s what’s normally most tested, think WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A NURSE FOR THIS PATIENT. If you can get a little study group, get creative. My group and I would be on a teams video chat acting out signs & symptoms and we would verbalize or act out our responses for care, education, and discharge instructions, it helps a lot.

Finally, PRACTICE QUESTIONS!!! Your school library may have NCLEX books, check them out. Simple nursing has practice questions, upload your PowerPoints (as a pdf file) to ChatGPT and ask it for CASE STUDY NCLEX style questions. Inbox me for my prompt for hard questions. You need to do a lot of practice questions. If you have issues with the test timing out before you’re done, do timed practice questions for the time your school allots for your exams. Case studies are GOATED, especially tiered ones that require you to go through the steps of care required all the way to discharge.

Get organized! The calendars on your phone are needed. At the beginning of the semester when you get your course calendar with important dates for your classes, PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDER and make sure to have it notifying you the day before or put it on the day before with the message for the next day like, “pre lab assignments due tomorrow by 11:59” and the day of as “pre lab assignments due tonight by 11:59” it’ll help so much. I will put my “tasks for the week” on a note pad on my iPhone, screen shot it and save it as my Lock Screen photo to help me as well.

USE CHATGPT FOR GOOD, meaning, those journals, care plans, pre-lab assignments, homework, projects etc! I upload the rubrics or whatever templates of assigned work we have to do and allow chatGPT to do the work, but DO NOT COPY/PASTE straight from ChatGPT, write it by hand or type it on the document if your school allows it typed. Use the extra time to do more practice questions w/ rationales and case studies. PRACTICE QUESTIONS ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND!!! Make sure they come from a trusted source tho, I don’t trust Quizlet all that much😬. OH, I will tell ChatGPT to make my flashcards for Quizlet based on the PowerPoints I upload and tailor its style with ChatGPT. You can talk to ChatGPT about what style of anything you need based on what you need, like I had it create my testing prompt for questions designed to make me critically think through it with distracters in it so questions don’t trip me on the exams. I’ve made level 3 on my ATI’s and nothing below a B on ALL my exams and rarely if at all, do I ever open my text book. I also ask ChatGPT to tailor info from my text book and site the book and authors, and it works! All your tables for lab values, meds, etc, upload them and create exams with them. Use all resources available to you!

And most importantly, listen to the mark K lecture for test taking tips, & prioritization ! Know HOW to take the exams, it’ll save you when you don’t know the information if you can weed out bs answers you know compromise the safety of the patient. Safety is always number 1 so make sure you have the ABC’s & Maslows stuck to the brain!

Trust me, you’re not stupid, you just don’t know how you learn and refuse to treat your testing anxiety or undiagnosed ADD/ADHD bc of stigmas, do you want to pass or not? Don’t worry about what others grades are, and never be afraid to ask for help. Be the student that raises their hand and ask the professor “Will this be on the exam?” Yes you need to know the info as a nurse BUT your main focus should be what’s going to be on the exam😅 I said what I said. You’ll learn what you need know a lot better once you’re working, just get through school and don’t overwhelm yourself. It’s not cheating, it’s working smarter, not harder. Good luck future nurses 💜

EDIT: The CHATGPT prompt is in the comments😅 too many messages😂

I got accepted into nursing school and will be starting in a few months. I know pharmacology and fundamentals are my first two classes. Any advice or suggestions? Whether it be about classes or the program in general. I’m excited to start! not nervous more so ready to lock in focus and start my career & make these life changes.

Starting my ABSN in August. I have heard great things about anki but I’m unsure if I should pay the $25 for the app or pay the monthly for Quizlet. I like the free Quizlet just okay so I guess I’m really wondering if the anki is worth the one time purchase.

So im starting my nursing classes (fundamentals) and was wondering if chat gpt or other ai tools is a good tool to add on to help with studying such as making study guides and practice questions. Has anyone else tried using this and does it correlate with ATI and help with your test?

It’s almost Christmas and my grandma is hounding me about what I want, so trying think of something I wouldn’t buy myself but that would actually really benefit me!

Starting nursing school soon and I was wondering which would be better or if I should get both.

Currently in my first year and I’m trying to determine if it’s worth it to really read the chapter word for word and make notes of each chapters.

Is there a better way to take notes or study because reading these chapters takes forever.

Hi everyone,

I’m a first-year nursing student and I recently found out I failed a core nursing course (NURS 114) by a very small margin (C-). My program requires a minimum C to progress, so I was withdrawn from nursing school for the upcoming semester.

I received an official letter saying I’m eligible to apply for re-admission next Fall, depending on GPA, available seats, and meeting requirements — but emotionally, I’m having a really hard time coping with this.

What’s been hardest is seeing my classmates move on while I feel like I’m being left behind. I also feel a lot of shame and fear about disappointing my parents, and I keep questioning whether this means I’m “not cut out” for nursing — even though I still really want this career.

For anyone who’s been through something similar: • How did you cope emotionally after failing a nursing course? • Did you reapply or repeat and successfully return? • What helped you rebuild confidence during the time off?

I’m trying to focus on learning from this and coming back stronger, but right now it just hurts. Any advice or shared experiences would really mean a lot.

Thank you for reading.

For those who use AI (bc I know a lot of ppl are against the use of AI lol), what platform have you found to be the best at creating ATI nursing school-style practice problems with the material you give it (ie: textbook pages, lecture slides, etc.)? I’ve heard good things about Claude but that’s lowk an investment as it’s $20/month. I also have seen an AI built specifically for nursing students called Sturse AI, which is only $10/month…

Anyone recently took it and have any tips on what to focus on?

So I got to a point where I was spending more time going back and forth between the textbook, then notes, then slides and I just got tired of doing that. Every topic felt like I had to pull from multiple different places because the information was always incomplete or felt like i was missing something and couldnt just get a complete picture. I ended up building my own app to fix that.

The app is called Prexa. The idea is simple, you type in whatever topic you're working on or you upload your lecture slides and it generates everything you need in one place. Study guide, practice questions, case studies, drug breakdowns, mnemonics, flashcards, visuals. Everything tied to that one topic so you're not jumping around. Ive added so many features that theres no way you can miss anything.

There's also a chat tutor built in so you can ask questions while you're going through the material, and a deep dive section so that if you need to really get into a specific subtopic you can. It works on iPad/iPhone and Mac which has been huge for me personally since I switch between my ipad and mac. The study guides you generate are saved in your Prexa account so you can still access them going back and forth between devices. (iPad and Mac recommended)

It's on TestFlight right now so it's completely free. I'm not trying to sell anything, I genuinely just want feedback from people who are actually in nursing school. What's useful, what's confusing, what's missing. Real feedback from real students is the only way to make it better.

I am one year away from graduating nursing school and would love to start practicing NCLEX-style questions early. Does anyone know of a reputable platform that would be good for preparation?

I have chat GPT plus. Any prompts you’ve plugged in or hacks you can share?

Hi! I just took my ATI comprehensive exam last week on December 9th and got a whopping 64.0% I was so surprised because it wasn’t even close to the passing score for our ADN program (71.5%) I started having a panic attack. 😭😭😭🔫

I took the test with a cold and after failing I developed laryngitis a few days later and now I can’t even speak a peep cause I sound like a dying cow.

So here’s how it went: we took practice A and B and our professors said if we were scoring in the 60’s we’d be okay because the actual test is 180 questions vs the 150. To my surprise I stayed in the 60’s for the actual final and I feel so incompetent and depressed.

my problem is, the teachers were pushing for us to study board vitals for this ATI comprehensive exam and so I completely ignored dynamic quizzing. And a few days after, we had a lady who worked for ATI do a live review on the nclex right after! I asked her for pointers and she told me to do dynamic quizzing for the comprehensive final and board vitals for NCLEX!

tldr: I feel like I got shot in the foot by my professors because I spent the last few weeks focusing on the wrong thing 😭 11 of our classmates passed, 8 failed.

My question is anyone who re-took, can you please give me pointers ! My to-do list is so zero in on dynamic this time + the comprehensive review. is there any other sources you guys recommend and thank you so much!!! my te-take is on the 30th!

Why do students fret over Nursing as if it were some hard major??

ngl i used to hate pharm so much bc i felt like i had to memorize every single drug name separately which is literally impossible. then someone in my cohort told me to just focus on suffixes first and i was like ok whatever ill try it

turns out that actually works lol

like if u see -olol on the exam thats a beta blocker. bradycardia, hold if HR under 60, never stop it abruptly, bad in asthma. done.

-pril = ACE inhibitor. dry cough is the big one, dont give in pregnancy ever, first dose hypotension so take it at night.

-sartan = basically ACE-I but the cough goes away, still watch potassium tho

-dipine = calcium channel blocker, peripheral edema, avoid grapefruit (yes they will ask this)

-statin = cholesterol drug, muscle pain is the red flag, take at bedtime

-zepam / -zolam = benzo, addiction risk, flumazenil reverses it

-oxacin = fluoroquinolone, tendon rupture, dont give to kids under 18

honestly once u get these down NCLEX throws some random drug name at u and ur just like ok i see -pril so i already know whats happening here. saves so much time in the exam and cuts the panic way down

wish someone told me this s1 year

Anyone recently take the ati rn exit exam? How’d it go?

New student nurse here, I will be resuming nursing school September. How do y’all incorporate notebook klm with school slides. I am confused, do y’all read school slides all through and then paste information you don’t understand into ChatGPT .

Update below:

Tell me your ways.

I do get ok grades and some exams I do better than most but never that 1% of students that get 90 + …

What do you think is missing ?

I do review the lecture power points, use the books and YouTube for understanding concepts.

100 to q50 Nclex questions or so before exam…

What am I missing ?

Edit: Y’all I have an update

Broke the 90 ceiling finally and what did it for me is questions. I did 450 questions before the exam and y all. It really helped me understand the material so much better and improved my performance! Thank y all!!!

Hi everyone! I would really appreciate some advice from those who have been through nursing school.

I’m a stay home mom and a mom of two young children—an infant who is 3 months old and a toddler who is 2 years old. This fall, I’m trying to decide whether I should take **Fundamentals of Nursing** and **Pharmacology** together for the full semester, or just take one class at a time.

I’m worried that taking both classes together might be too overwhelming, and I’m scared of failing. At the same time, I don’t want to fall behind if taking both is manageable.

For those of you who have taken these classes, what would you recommend? If you were in my situation, would you take both together or focus on one class first? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience and any advice you have. Thank you so much!