The maternal newborn ATI Adaptive quiz was a great way to review the material that I had just completed this past semester. For this adaptive quiz, it took me 132 questions which definitely was hard for me to accept and concentrate with as I felt confident during it that I was answering many of the questions correct, but it just seemingly never ended. My time has improved even more since my last adaptive quiz going from 32 up to 37 seconds average per question, aiming to keep improving until I’m more near the NCLEX average of 1 min 21 seconds. There were a few questions that I thought I was confident with answering such as with reflexes and reviewing the Moro reflex and I was incorrect, so I am glad that this gave me an opportunity to reframe my understanding. I enjoy this content area and would like to improve even more. This was my best scoring for an adaptive quiz out of the 3 that I have taken so far with a 67% correct. This quiz took me a total of 1 hour and 22 minutes and I believe that taking a break would have helped me in the moment of taking it as I was losing concentration towards the end and started making silly mistakes. Reflecting back on this adaptive quiz, some ways to improve when I take my next one would be: to take a break if I feel pressure increasing, slow down and read all of the options even if I think I know the answer right away and to not worry how many questions it takes me and remain headstrong throughout.
Becca, you may have been correctly answering easier questions after a series of incorrectly answered harder questions, meaning you needed to get back up over the NCLEX passing benchmark. These assessments are hard to understand. My advice is to try to take one question at a time without tracking the number of questions; this more realistically simulates NCLEX.