90% on the TEAS - resources I used
Hi everyone! I just took the ATI TEAS 7, and passed with a 90%.
Score breakdown: Reading- 94.9%, Math- 91.2%, Science 93.2%, English 84.8%
Anyone who is telling you this test is easy is either a liar or naturally really smart. It needs a lot of study time!
I studied for around 7 days, for a total of around 50 hours. I work part time, so this was accomplishable for me. In the past 8 months, I took the following classes and got an A:
- Chemistry 101 (physical)
-Chemistry 102 (organic)
- Microbiology 101
- Biology 102 (intro)
Resources:
I had the official ATI TEAS prep book for 2024-2025. It was given to me for free. I felt it did a good job at lightly covering the content you were expected to know, but it did not help me understand the content, particularly the anatomy and physiology sections. The best part of this book was the practice questions, unit quiz's, and the single practice exam. I would recommend it as a cheaper alternative to the online practice exams A & B.
I purchased a NurseHub subscription, which was somewhat helpful. I only used it for the body systems. It took a lot of time to work through, and with my timeline, I opted for other resources for the other sections. I think this is a better resource if you have a lot of time to go through everything. I have not taken anatomy or physiology, so was the most nervous for these sections.
I used Nurse Cheung YouTube videos for physiology review, and liked them. They were definitely light on the detail, but she was very good at explaining how everything worked and had a lot of good memory tricks. She helped me make sense of more dense content from other sources.
I purchased the Mometrix book for access to the practice exams, but did not study from the book. I felt the practice exams were the most helpful part of studying. I think they were similar to the TEAS. The math sections were definitely harder, but good practice. The science, reading, and English sections were all similar in terms of content, but the questions were less complex. I liked the practice exams as a learning resource and think they work great for that. The TEAS questions are trying to trick you in a lot of cases, and need to be read really carefully.
I did the free, 60 question, ATI test. I think that was harder than the exam, I scored a 74%, and took it 2 days before the exam. I am glad I did it, it got me used to the structure of the questions and made me study a lot harder, which contributed to my score. Definitely use this!
My Study "Plan"
I did not have a super structured study schedule. I started with reviewing and learning a lot of the body systems, then moved on to practice exams. Every practice exam, I would note questions I struggled with, then review those questions + anything I got wrong. I would make additional paper notes on these, then take another exam and repeat the process. I also made paper flashcards with concepts I was struggling with.
This method really helped to identify my weakest areas, especially in subjects I felt confident in, like chemistry. It allowed me to just refresh my weak spots, and not waste time on things I already knew.
The Exam:
Reading: This section is hard to study for, the best way I found was just continual practice via practice exams! This section had a lot of dense material, just make sure you really understand what the question is asking for, and link it to the text.
Math: Have not taken a algebra class in 6~ years, but did well on this is a basic refresher. Not sure which questions I missed here, I felt pretty confident about all of them. Make sure you understand triangles and how to calculate area/perimeter. Lots of conversion questions, I think they almost always gave me the conversion factors but I would not rely on that. Some questions on ordering numbers, make sure to convert them to a decimal. Understand the "repeating" symbol for decimals, I had one question that used this, and there was one answer that worked for the repeating decimal, and one that did not.
Science: While I did not get a ton of physiology or anatomy questions, they were all very complex, and I am glad I studied at the depth I did. I would have struggled a lot more in this section otherwise. I got a few questions on Urea, which I did not study at all! Thankfully I was able to make an educated guess on those ones. I would memorize the hormones ADH, aldosterone, FSH, LH, Epinephrine, oxytocin, etc. Including where they are produced, and their functions. I had a few questions on acids and bases, and a few on mendelian inheritance. I think most were on chemistry. Some on cell structure. I had one on which organelle was in a eukaryote and prokaryote, and one on translation.
English:
Hardest section for me and my lowest score. A LOT of questions on Subject-Verb agreement, I thought I had studied this but not in nearly enough depth. Understand plurals, possession, apostrophes, compound, complex, and simple sentences, prepositions, modifiers and hanging modifiers, etc. I thought I could reason through this section better than I did, but it is really technical. Had a few questions on root words, suffixes, prefixes. I skimmed the mometrix book for this section, and that was a really good resource! As well as Carolyn McAllister- I used this document, did not watch her videos. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIcAvQW2QW2vcCUZr0yo2lMsa-na-T9l9kyMzSIFlzo/edit?tab=t.0
***This document went over basic subject-verb agreement, but not to the complexity I saw on the TEAS.
This sub was really helpful as I was figuring out what resources I should be using and how to best prepare, I hope this helps some of you!
***NOTE: for the ten minute break after the math section, nothing pops up or tells you to take a break. You just have to KNOW to take the break then. DO NOT click into the next section, the timer starts immediately.