I have to say, I am a little more than freaking out about taking my big "final".
When I was in school, we heard about two different kinds of items that were supposed to help prepare you for taking the nursing boards. One was called ATI and the other was called KAPLAN. I had heard "if you are doing KAPLAN don't even look at the ATI's". I knew that my work would be footing the bill for KAPLAN, so I figured I wouldn't worry about the other.
WELL, my school has an agreement with the company that does the ATI's, so we were required to do them. I can't tell you how many of those tests I took, but I'm pretty sure it was well over 400. Now, I had heard if you did the ATI's, KAPLAN could really mess you up...they weren't kidding. I have now taken around 400 KAPLAN questions and have been doing just awful!
It is so confusing. In the KAPLAN course, I would answer a question the way we were taught and get it wrong. On the KAPLAN website, I answer a question the way they showed us during the course and I STILL get it wrong. I have talked to the people from school who have taken their tests and they have all passed. They said that they too did awful on the KAPLAN practice tests. So, I guess, I will just go with the fact that they all passed and struggled with the practice ones too.
However, I have to get my ATT, (authorization to test) before I can even schedule my test. It was delayed because my transcripts were held since work had not payed the balance for my school. I'm giving the state until the middle of next week to let me know, then I am going to be driving them nuts with phone calls.
I sure hope this is not a sign!
