While doing each ATI and remediation I try to look at the assignment as a whole before performing my remediation. I look at each section and find my individual score for each of the content areas listed. I compare how I performed in each content area to see if there are specific areas that I significantly perform worse on than others. I compare my scores to the national and program scores to see how I performed compared to my peers. Once I have taken a look at all of that, then I go into each content area section and look at the individual questions that I did not perform well on, and I start formulating my remediations.
When I first started taking ATI exams they overwhelmed me because I was not used to the format in which they ask questions. Now they are so routine and I am able to think them through using my nursing frameworks and knowledge. I have worked on taking more time on each question to focus on figuring out specifically what the question is asking me before I take a look at the answer options that are listed. This helps me get an idea of what I think may be the answer before the answers change my mind at all. I establish my gut feeling and then compare it to the answer choices. I will always use what I have learned from ATI because we have taken so many practice and proctored tests about every single different type of nursing and I think it has adequately helped prepare me for the NCLEX exam.
I have noticed that I do not often do similar remediation topics. This is a good feeling because if I was remediating the same topics over and over then I must not be learning from what I have written. But since I do not repeat the same topics very often, spending time on the remediations must be helping me learn more about the topics that I have missed. Another thing that I have focused on is scheduling time for myself to just focus on reading my textbooks. I noticed in the past few semesters that reading the chapters was falling by the wayside because I was so focused on completing graded assignments on time and it was affecting my grades. This semester I scheduled myself time to just read the book and not do any assignments during that time. This has definitely helped me focus more on the content in my classes and helped with my grades this semester.
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