ATI TEAS 7 Exam Prep: Turn Your Program's Cutoff Into a Practice Benchmark

ATI TEAS 7 Passing Score: The Decision You Need to Make

Start with the minimum published by the nursing program that will receive your score. Then build a practice cushion above that cutoff instead of treating the cutoff as your target.

Bottom line: The ATI TEAS 7 passing score is not one national number. Your nursing program sets the cutoff. Use the verified program table and the planner below to turn that cutoff into a clearly labeled raw-practice benchmark and a section-by-section study plan—not an official-score conversion.

Most ATI TEAS 7 exam prep starts in the wrong place. It starts with a book. It should start with a number: the raw-practice benchmark you will use to check readiness.

The current exam is ATI TEAS Version 7 — 170 questions, 150 of them scored, 209 minutes. Your school picks the score it wants. ATI does not set a passing score, so "passing" is whatever number your program publishes. For practice planning only, a 70% target maps to 105 correct out of 150. That is a benchmark, not a promise that 105 raw answers produces a 70% ATI score.

That's the shift this page is built on. Below is a free tool that does the math for your program, your test date, and your weakest section. Then comes the part almost nobody publishes: we opened ATI's own content outline and counted every objective on it, one at a time. There are 64. And when you line those 64 up against the scored-question distribution, the standard advice — start with Science, it's the biggest section — turns out to be a poor study shortcut.

We'll show you the count.

ATI TEAS 7 Score Target & Study Plan Builder

ATI TEAS 7 Score Target & Study Plan Builder — free, no sign-up, nothing to install.

Step 1 — Your target. Enter the cutoff your program publishes. The tool turns it into an illustrative raw-practice benchmark out of 150 and labels how far below that benchmark a practice result sits. Step 2 — Your gaps. Enter your practice-test percentages by section. The tool turns each one into a practice benchmark gap, not an official-score gap, so you can see where to spend study time. Step 3 — Your venue. Pick where you're testing (your school, ATI at home, or a PSI center). The tool prints the rules that apply to that venue and generates a checklist of the questions to ask your program before you pay. Step 4 — Your calendar. Enter your test date and application deadline. The tool builds a weighted study plan, subtracts the score-release and transcript legs, and flags whether a retake could still fit.

It never predicts your official ATI score or your admission decision. It does one job. It shows how far a raw practice result is from an illustrative benchmark based on the number your school publishes.

Best for: applicants who know (or can look up) their program's TEAS requirements and want a plan built around their real dates and real weak spots.

Not for you if: you're hunting for leaked or recalled exam questions, a single national passing score, or a guaranteed result. None of those exist and we won't pretend otherwise. If you've already taken the TEAS and are deciding whether to retake, skip to Can you retake the ATI TEAS? — that's the section you need.

One more: if you're a nursing student who already got in and you're here about the licensure exam, you want a different page. Start with NCLEX-RN exam prep instead.

Castleport Test Prep is the independent exam prep publisher that matches every study material to the exact exam version and jurisdiction you're testing under — every requirement verified against the official handbook, every product updated when the blueprint changes.

The right prep path isn't the same for every candidate. It depends on the exam version you'll actually sit, your school's requirements, your test date, and how far you are from passing today. ATI sets the exam rules and your program sets the admission rules — not a checklist on somebody's blog. Because a general answer can't resolve those for you, run your own numbers through the builder above before you spend anything.

Before you read further: we don't sell anything for the TEAS

No Castleport TEAS book. No Castleport TEAS question bank. No Castleport TEAS diagnostic. No commission on anybody else's, either.

If you came here hoping we'd hand you an all-in-one Castleport TEAS course, that's a real limitation and you should know it in the first minute rather than the last.

Here's why we're telling you anyway. Almost every other page ranking for this phrase gets paid depending on which way you go. ATI ranks for it, and ATI sells the prep. The big prep sites rank for it, and every answer ends at a checkout page. We have no dog in that fight, so the next several thousand words can just be the numbers.

That's the trade. You get no product from us today. You get an answer nobody's paying us to shape.

What's actually on the ATI TEAS 7 exam?

The ATI TEAS Version 7 has 170 questions and 209 minutes. It has four timed sections: Reading, Math, Science, and English and Language Usage. Only 150 questions count toward your score. The other 20 are items ATI is trying out. You are not told which ones they are.

Here's ATI's published structure, plus four columns we calculated from it. ATI publishes its blueprint as an image file, which means screen readers and answer engines can't read it. So we typed it out.

Questions, scored counts, and minutes are ATI-published facts, verified August 21, 2026. The last four columns are Castleport arithmetic from those facts — planning data, not ATI scoring weights. “Scored questions per objective” uses our hand count of ATI objective codes.

Four things fall out of that table that change how you'd study.

Do not treat a raw question as a fixed number of ATI points. ATI equates official scores across forms, and you cannot identify the 20 unscored items. Use the scored-question counts to plan practice volume, not to reverse-engineer your official result.

English deserves deliberate pacing practice. It has 33 scored questions and only 37 minutes, compared with 44 scored questions in Science and 60 minutes. The timing difference matters even though official section scores are equated.

English also gives you the least time — and needs the least. Sixty seconds per question, exactly, with no rounding. It's the fastest section on the exam and the shortest. Math is the opposite: 90 seconds a question, the most generous clock on the test.

The clock and the question set don't match. Math gets 27.3% of the testing time for 22.7% of the scored questions. English gets 17.7% of the clock for 22.0% of the scored questions. If you run out of time anywhere, English is the least forgiving place to do it.

Reading has the largest unscored share. Six of Reading's 45 questions are unscored — 13.3%, versus 10.5% in Math. You can't tell which items they are, which is another reason practice-test percentages and official scores can drift apart.

What score do you need to pass the ATI TEAS 7?

There is no national passing score on the ATI TEAS. ATI does not set one. Each nursing or allied health program picks the score it wants. Those rules differ a lot. They differ on the number, on whether single sections have their own floor, and on how many tries a school will count.

This is the single most-searched TEAS question and the honest answer is annoying: it depends on your school, and only your school.

So we went and read what schools actually publish. Here are 12 programs, normalized side by side. Every row comes from that institution's own published policy page.

Compiled by Castleport Test Prep from each institution's published admissions or testing pages, August 2026. Program requirements change; verify yours directly before you register.

Read that table twice, because five different things are hiding in it.

The cutoffs aren't the interesting part. The definitions are. UTEP wants three numbers from one sitting. Cal State East Bay wants an overall number plus an English floor. Central Connecticut doesn't just want 70 — it weights your TEAS at a quarter of the whole admission decision. "What score do I need" has at least five different shapes across 12 schools.

Some schools admit on a number. Some admit on a band. UT Arlington doesn't publish a percentage. It requires "Proficient" in every section, and then tells you the Proficient line usually sits at or above 58.7%. That 58.7 is a reported-score band edge, not a raw-question threshold. Do not reverse-engineer an official score from the practice table below.

Two of the twelve dropped the TEAS entirely. Highline College and FAU Nursing both publish that the TEAS is no longer required for their nursing programs. Before you pay $120 and give up a Saturday, confirm your program still wants it.

The word "attempt" means three different things. Wake Tech counts on a calendar year. Valencia counts a rolling 12 months and counts sittings you took at other schools. UT Arlington counts three per year. Same word, different math.

And one school won't take an at-home score at all. Bunker Hill Community College doesn't accept online TEAS results. Not "prefers not to." Doesn't accept. If you test at home for a school like that, you've spent the money, burned an attempt, and produced a transcript they'll refuse.

Now turn your number into questions

Here's the translation for practice planning only. ATI does not assign a fixed number of total-score points to each question; official scores are equated across exam forms. Multiply 150 by your target percentage and divide by 100 to create a raw-practice benchmark — not a question count required to earn that official score.

Now the honest caveat, because it matters and almost nobody states it.

Your official ATI total score is equated. ATI adjusts raw performance to account for the fact that different forms of the exam are slightly different in difficulty, so a 70 on one form means the same thing as a 70 on another. ATI says directly that content area scores can't be used to calculate your total score, and sub-content scores can't be used to calculate content area scores. So the table above is not a score predictor.

It's a target-setting tool. And it's exact in the two places you'll actually use it:

1. Every practice test you take. Those are raw percent correct. The math is exact.
2. The sub-content lines on your real score report. ATI states those are calculated as straight percentage of questions answered correctly in each sub-area — not equated. So when your report says "Chemistry, 8 items, 62.5% correct," that's five right out of eight, and you can act on it.

Set a raw-practice benchmark in questions. Measure your practice in questions. Treat the official total as an equated result that may differ from the benchmark.

Your next step: open your program's nursing admissions page and write down four things — the required score, whether any section has its own minimum, how many attempts they count, and how long scores stay valid. Then put those into the builder at the top of this page.

Which ATI TEAS section should you study first?

On the ATI TEAS, the biggest section is not automatically the best place to start. Science is the largest, at 29.3% of the scored-question set. But ATI's content outline lists 27 topics for Science, which is 42.2% of all the objectives. English is 22.0% of the scored-question set and has just 8 objectives.

This is the part we're proudest of, and it took an afternoon of counting.

ATI publishes an official ATI TEAS Version 7 Content Outline — a PDF listing every numbered objective the exam can test, from R.1.1 through M.2.5. We opened it and counted them by hand. There are 64.

Sixty-four topics. One hundred fifty scored questions. That's the whole map. Now watch what happens when you line the topics up against the scored-question distribution.

Castleport hand count of ATI's published content outline, August 21, 2026. Objective counts are ours; the outline itself is ATI's copyrighted material and we don't reproduce it.

Relative to its share of scored questions, Science has 2.5 times the objective density of English. Twenty-seven separate things to learn for 29.3% of the scored-question set. English has eight objectives for 22.0%.

Every study plan we found sends people to Science first. It's the biggest section — that's the logic. But the biggest section is also the deepest well, so a short calendar may call for a broader first pass before you spend a whole weekend there.

Go one level deeper and it gets sharper. Here's what each objective actually buys you, measured in scored questions:

That's a 3.8× spread between the best buy and the worst.

Chemistry is the narrowest study buy on the ATI TEAS 7. Six objectives for eight scored questions — about 5% of the scored-question set. It's also the sub-area most likely to eat a whole weekend, because for a lot of applicants it's the subject they haven't touched since high school. If you're four weeks out and staring at a chemistry review book, that book is competing for time against English, where two objectives cover ten scored questions.

We're not telling you to skip Science. It contains 29.3% of the scored-question set and has the single largest sub-area on the exam (Human A&P, 18 questions). We're telling you the order deserves a gap check. Start with sections where a small amount of focused practice can close a visible benchmark gap, then spend the remaining weeks in Science.

One small thing that shows how carefully you have to read these documents: ATI's own outline calls the same sub-area "Vocabulary Acquisition" in its summary table and "Using Language and Vocabulary to Express Ideas in Writing" in its objective list. Same content, two names, one document. If you've been searching one name and finding nothing, that's why.

Your next step: put your practice-test section percentages into Step 2 of the builder above. It converts each gap into practice benchmark questions short and orders your sections by the smallest visible gap first.

How long should you study for the ATI TEAS 7?

ATI says to allow at least six weeks to get ready for the ATI TEAS. That is study time only. It does not count the days it takes for your score to go final, or for your transcript to reach your school. Both of those sit between your test date and your deadline.

Six weeks is a fine starting number. It's also the number that gets people in trouble, because most applicants count forward from today instead of backward from the deadline.

Count backward. There are four legs, and three of them aren't studying.

Leg 1 — Your application deadline. The hard date. Everything else is subtracted from here.

Leg 2 — Transcript delivery. ATI sends transcripts to institutions within 48 hours of submission.

Leg 3 — Score finalization. This one has a trap in it, which we'll cover in the next section. Plan on 4 business days for a TEAS at ATI, or 48–72 hours for a TEAS at PSI.

Leg 4 — Study time. Whatever's left.

So a February 1 deadline with a TEAS at ATI looks roughly like this: transcript needs to be moving by about January 30, your score needs to be final by about January 28, which means your test date needs to be on or around January 22 — and that's assuming no weekends or holidays land badly, because ATI's business-day count excludes both. Six weeks of study from there puts your start date in mid-December.

Do that math before you pick a test date, not after.

Here's how we'd weight the study time itself, using the topic density from the section above.

A note on that last row, because it's the one people are usually in: sitting the TEAS underprepared isn't automatically a mistake. At several schools your highest score counts and earlier attempts fall away. At Wake Tech, though, only your first or second attempt counts — a third one doesn't help you. That's exactly the kind of rule you want to know before you book, not after.

Where you take the TEAS changes the price, the rules, and whether your school accepts it

You can take the ATI TEAS three ways. At a school, at home through ATI, or at a PSI test center. The price, the reschedule rules, the score timing, and the way your transcript is sent are different for each one. Some programs will not accept a score from every route.

Most pages treat this as a footnote. It's the most expensive decision on this page.

What it actually costs

ATI charges $120 for a TEAS at ATI and $120 for a TEAS at PSI. Schools set their own price for exams given at their location, and ATI notes that a school's fee may fold in proctor fees, scheduling fees, room fees, and remote security monitoring.

Then it gets strange. ATI's own FAQ says the exam fee "typically ranges from $65 to $125" — a ceiling above what ATI charges directly. Both numbers are on ATI-owned pages right now. Here's what schools actually publish:

Prices verified from ATI's and each institution's published pages, August 2026. Check your own testing location — this is exactly the kind of number that moves.

The cheapest verified sitting on that list is $85. The most expensive is $120 plus a separate $50 proctor fee. Same exam, same 170 questions, roughly double the money — and the expensive one is often the only route your program accepts.

Rescheduling rights are not the same everywhere

For a TEAS at ATI, ATI's policy is a $15 fee per reschedule, and it must happen at least 48 hours before your appointment. Inside 48 hours you can't reschedule at all. You can reschedule as many times as you want at $15 a pop, but only up to 30 days past your original date — and if your testing location has nothing available in that window, ATI's policy is that you can't reschedule and have to re-register from scratch.

At PSI, cancelling or rescheduling keeps your fee only if notice arrives two days before. ATI spells out the example: a Monday appointment needs notice by the previous Saturday. A voicemail or email doesn't count — it has to be your ATI account or a live PSI rep.

At South University's FAU testing site, the published policy is blunter: the test may not be rescheduled, and all fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.

And across all of it: ATI does not issue refunds for missed, cancelled, rescheduled, or invalidated exams.

The at-home warning worth $120

If you're testing remotely, read this twice. ATI's published position is that technical problems with your own device or internet are not valid reasons for a refund or a free reschedule. ATI expects you to confirm your system meets the requirements and to complete a dry run before test day. If your exam gets invalidated for a policy violation — no valid government-issued ID, for instance — there's no refund and no free retest.

And the biggest one, in ATI's own words on its transcript pages: some schools will not accept transcripts from exams taken at other locations. We found one in our 12-school sample that won't take online scores at all. If your school is one of those, an at-home TEAS costs you the fee, an attempt on your record, and a transcript they'll refuse.

Your next step: before you pay for anything, ask your program one question in writing — "Which TEAS testing routes do you accept?" ATI's registration page lists the routes; only your school can tell you which ones count. Step 3 of the builder above prints this as a checklist you can take to your advisor.

What the questions look like — and the one number ATI publishes two different ways

The ATI TEAS Version 7 uses five question formats. One is plain multiple choice. The other four are called alternate item types: multiple select, supply answer, hot spot, and ordered response. ATI gives no partial credit on any of these four. Each one is marked all right or all wrong.

Standard multiple choice on the TEAS gives you four options with one correct answer, and some include a chart, exhibit, or graphic. Then there are the four alternate types:

• Multiple select. Four or more options, more than one correct, labeled "select all that apply." Miss one correct answer and the whole question is wrong.
• Supply answer. You type the answer with no options given — text or a number. ATI notes most of these are math-based, and the directions will often tell you exactly how to round. Follow that instruction literally.
• Hot spot. An image with two to five clickable areas. You click the right one. Knowing the definition of the right atrium doesn't help if you can't find it on a diagram.
• Ordered response. Drag items into the correct sequence. Every position has to be right.

No partial credit. On any of them.

Now here's the thing nobody flags. ATI publishes two different figures for how much of the exam these make up. Its help center says approximately 20% of question types are alternate items. Its own nursing blog says students can expect up to 15%. Both are ATI's, both are live right now.

On a 170-question exam, that's the difference between about 26 questions and about 34 — a gap of roughly eight questions, which is more than the entire Chemistry sub-area. Every prep site we checked picked one of the two numbers and printed it as fact. We'd rather tell you the truth: ATI hasn't settled it, so plan for the higher end. Assume up to a third of a section could come at you in a format you didn't practice.

Which leads to the practical point. The reason to practice alternate formats isn't the content — it's that an all-or-nothing question you've never seen before can cost a scored item while also costing you clock as you figure out the interface.

Your next step: ATI's free 60-question practice test includes alternate item types and gives rationales for right and wrong answers. It's free and it's ATI's own. Read the next section first, though — there's a right way to spend it.

Can you retake the ATI TEAS? (And can a retake fit before your deadline?)

ATI makes you wait 14 days between tries, but only for a TEAS you take through ATI. If you test at a school, the school's rule applies. ATI notes that many schools make you wait 30 days. Schools also set their own limit on how many tries they will count.

ATI sets exactly one retake number: 14 days, and only for exams it proctors itself. Everything else in your retake picture belongs to your school.

Look back at that 12-school table. The waits run 0 days, 14 days, and 30 days. The caps run 2, 3, and 4 — measured on a calendar year at one school and a rolling 12 months at another. Valencia counts attempts you made at other schools. Arizona State's policy is that testing before the wait expires cancels your results and forfeits your fee.

And here's the myth we most want to kill: a sitting counts as an attempt even if you never send the transcript. ATI tracks and reports your attempt count to each school you do submit to, and it updates. "I'll just take it and not send it if it goes badly" is not a strategy. It's an attempt you've spent.

The score-timing trap

If a retake has to fit before a deadline, you need to know exactly how long a score takes to become usable. This is where ATI's own pages disagree — and we checked both today.

Plan on four. The four-day rule carries a dated effective notice, which makes it the newer of the two. Both exclude weekends and major holidays, so a Thursday exam can easily finalize the following Wednesday.

Then there's the part that catches people. You can hit "send transcript" while your score is still marked preliminary — but ATI will not deliver it to your school until the score is finalized. Sending early doesn't buy you time. It just queues it.

Here's how transcript delivery actually works by route:

Two more details from ATI's own pages that cost people real money:

Extra transcripts are $27 each. One credit equals one submission to one school, and credits never expire. If you're applying to four programs, that's your one free credit plus $81. (You'll see $29.99 quoted on some well-known prep sites — that number is stale. ATI's current published price is $27, verified August 21, 2026.)

Each transcript can only be sent to a school once. If your program asks for your scores again, you can't resend. They'd have to pull it from their own ATI account.

And on a PSI exam, the date on your score report is the date the score posted — not the date you tested. If your program has a "scores dated within X" rule, that's the date they'll read.

Your next step: read ATI's retake policy and your program's, side by side. They are different documents with different rules, and the stricter one wins. Step 4 of the builder above will tell you whether a retake still fits your deadline.

Is there an ATI TEAS 8? (And what changed from TEAS 6?)

As of August 21, 2026, ATI TEAS Version 7 is the current exam. It launched June 3, 2022. ATI states that seven ATI TEAS blueprints have existed to date, with multiple exam forms developed under each. There is no ATI TEAS Version 8.

Walk through any bookstore listing and you'll see study guides advertising "the ATI TEAS 8th Edition exam." That exam does not exist. What's happening is a collision between two words that look interchangeable and aren't:

• Version is ATI's word for the blueprint — what's tested and how the exam is built. Version 7 is current.
• Edition is a publisher's word for a book printing. A "9th edition" study guide is the ninth time somebody printed their own book. It says nothing about the exam.
• Form is a specific set of questions built to the current blueprint. ATI builds many forms under one version. That's why two people who both sat "TEAS 7" saw different questions — and it's also why your score gets equated.

So: if a book says "TEAS 7," it's aimed at the current blueprint. If it says "8th edition," check what version of the exam it's built for. And if it says "TEAS 6," it's aimed at an exam that was retired in June 2022.

What actually changed in 2022

This matters more than it sounds, because a lot of free TEAS material still circulating online was written for TEAS 6 — and TEAS 6 also had 170 questions in 209 minutes. From the outside the two exams look identical. Inside, they're not.

The section totals barely moved. Inside Science, the ground shifted hard:

• Human Anatomy and Physiology went from 32 scored questions to 18 — a 44% cut.
• The old "Life and Physical Sciences" area (8 questions) was retired and replaced by Biology (9) and Chemistry (8) as separately named areas. Chemistry did not exist as a named sub-area before 2022.
• English grew from 16.0% of the scored exam to 22.0%.

Practical translation: a study plan built for TEAS 6 over-weights Anatomy and Physiology by 1.78× and under-weights English badly. If a free study guide is spending half its Science chapter on body systems, check the copyright page.

What happens on ATI TEAS test day

ATI TEAS sections are timed one at a time and come in a set order. You can move around inside a section while it is open. Once it closes, you cannot go back. A four-function calculator is built into the exam. You may not bring your own.

The calculator rule is the one we most want you to get right. There is a calculator built into the exam — a drop-down, four-function one. You do not bring your own. ATI does not permit personal calculators.

We found a widely copied page telling readers to bring an approved four-function calculator and listing acceptable brands. Following that advice can get you stopped at the door with a device you're not allowed to use. Multiple colleges publish the same rule ATI does: the exam includes an embedded calculator, no personal calculators allowed, and the center provides scratch paper and pencils.

The rest of test day:

• Sections are one-way. Move around inside a section all you like. Once it closes, it's closed. Don't leave blanks planning to circle back at the end — there is no end you can come back from.
• There is no guessing penalty. Answer every question. A blank and a wrong answer are worth the same thing, so a blank is strictly worse.
• There's an optional 10-minute break after Math, and the clock stops for it.
• Plan on about four hours in the chair. The testing time is 209 minutes, but check-in, ID verification, and the break are on top of that.
• Bring valid, non-expired, government-issued photo ID, with the name matching your registration exactly. Getting turned away for ID means no refund and no free retest.
• If you're testing remotely, do the dry run. ATI's position is that your technical problems are your problem — no refund, no free reschedule.
• If you need accommodations, start early. Accommodations may be available for documented disabilities under the ADA, and at least one college administering the exam publishes a 30-day advance requirement for remote accommodation requests. Ask ATI and your school well before you book.

How to actually study — and the "clean look" budget nobody talks about

A practice test only gives you a true baseline the first time you take it. ATI's practice products repeat the same questions on later tries. The free ATI practice test has 60 questions, and every try shows the same ones. The paid ATI practice tests come as two forms of 150 questions each, with two tries per form on the same questions.

Here's something that fell out of reading ATI's product pages carefully, and it changes how you should sequence everything.

ATI's practice questions don't refresh. Its free practice test is 60 questions, 15 per section, with rationales for right and wrong answers — and ATI says plainly that every attempt shows the same questions. Its paid practice assessments come as Form A and Form B, 150 questions each, and each allows two attempts — again, the same questions both times.

Add it up. From ATI itself, you get:

Three clean baselines. That's the entire supply of ATI-written questions you'll never have seen before. Three hundred sixty questions total, or about 2.1 exams' worth.

After that, every retake of an ATI practice product measures your memory, not your readiness. Scores go up. That feels great and tells you almost nothing.

So spend them deliberately:

Clean look #1 — the free 60, right now, cold. Don't study first. Don't look anything up. A baseline you prepared for isn't a baseline. Fifteen questions per section is thin, but it's enough to rank your four sections against each other, and that ranking is what the builder at the top of this page needs.

Then study. Use your section order from the objective-density table. Start with the smallest practice gaps you can close confidently.

Clean look #2 — Form A, timed, mid-plan. Full 150 under real conditions. This is where you find out whether your pacing works, not just your content.

Clean look #3 — Form B, timed, about a week out. This is your dress rehearsal and your last honest read.

Between those, work third-party question banks, your own error log, and content review. Save ATI's material for the moments where an accurate number actually matters.

The loop that works

1. Baseline cold. Rank your sections. Convert each gap into practice-benchmark questions short, not official-score points.
2. Repair content, smallest gaps first. Use English and Conventions before Chemistry when your own practice results show those gaps are more manageable.
3. Retrieve under a timer. Reading a review book is recognition. The exam wants recall. Answer questions with the clock running from week one.
4. Keep an error log with a "why." Not just what you missed — whether you missed it because you didn't know it, misread it, ran out of time, or fumbled the format. Those four problems have four different fixes and only one of them is more studying.
5. Rehearse the real thing. Same time of day. No pausing. No phone. The 209 minutes are a stamina test as much as a knowledge test.

A word on prep products generally, since we sell none: some prep companies advertise a money-back outcome guarantee on the TEAS. If that's what you want, read the study-hour and completion requirements in the fine print before you count on it — most of those guarantees require a documented amount of work. And be careful with anything promising real exam questions. Recalled or leaked items are a test-security violation, and every question on an ATI practice product is ATI's own, written to the published blueprint.

How do you know when you're ready?

There is no national passing score on the ATI TEAS, so being ready means hitting your own program's number. A good check is clearing that number twice, on two separate timed practice tests. If your school wants a floor in each section, you need to hit all of them in the same test.

Run through these five. If all five are yes, book the exam.

1. You know your program's exact requirement — the number, any section floors, the attempt limit, and how long scores stay valid.
2. You've cleared it twice on separate timed attempts. Once could be the form. Twice is a pattern. And if your program requires section minimums from a single sitting the way UTEP and UT Arlington do, you need to clear all of them in the same attempt, not across your best days.
3. You're finishing sections with time left, especially English at 60 seconds a question.
4. Alternate item types don't surprise you. You've done select-all-that-apply, hot spot, and ordered response enough that the interface is boring.
5. Your calendar works. Test date, plus four business days to finalize, plus 48 hours to deliver, still lands before your deadline — with room for one retake if your program allows it and you'd want it.

If #5 fails, fix the date before you fix anything else. It's the only one on this list you can't study your way out of.

Your next step: print your plan from the builder at the top of this page and take it to your program advisor. Every question on it is one only your school can answer.

What we actually verified for this page

Everything below was checked directly against the source named, on August 21, 2026.

From ATI's own published materials:

• 170 total questions, 150 scored, 20 unscored, 209 minutes, and the per-section breakdown (Reading 45/39/55, Math 38/34/57, Science 50/44/60, English 37/33/37)
• The full ATI TEAS Version 7 Content Outline — read and hand-counted to 64 objectives across 12 sub-areas
• The retired TEAS 6 content outline, used to build the version change map
• Five question formats and the no-partial-credit rule
• Both of ATI's published alternate-item figures (approximately 20%, and up to 15%)
• The equated-scoring explanation, including that content area scores can't be used to calculate the total and that sub-content scores are raw percent correct
• That ATI sets no passing score; schools set their own
• $120 for TEAS at ATI, $120 for TEAS at PSI, and ATI's separate "typically $65 to $125" range
• $27 per additional transcript credit; one free credit included; credits never expire; each transcript sends to a school only once
• The 3-business-day and 4-business-day score-finalization statements, and the June 19, 2025 effective date on the 4-day rule
• 48-hour transcript delivery; PSI results posting in 48–72 hours; the PSI score-report date rule
• The 14-day retake wait for TEAS at ATI, and ATI's note that many schools require 30 days
• The $15 reschedule fee, 48-hour cutoff, 30-day rescheduling window, and no-refund policy
• The PSI two-day cancellation rule
• That attempts count and are reported to schools whether or not you send that transcript
• That personal calculators are not permitted and a calculator is provided
• ATI's statement that Version 7 launched June 3, 2022, and that seven blueprints have existed

From institutions' own published pages: admissions and testing policies for A-B Tech, Central Connecticut State, Cal State East Bay, UTEP, UT Arlington, South University (via FAU), Valencia College, Wake Tech, Arizona State, Bunker Hill CC, Highline College, and FAU Nursing.

What we could not verify, and did not publish:

• A national TEAS mean or average score. ATI prints a national mean on your individual score report but does not publish one openly. The "65–75% average" that circulates has no source we could find.
• A TEAS pass rate. There isn't one, because there's no pass or fail. Any page quoting a TEAS pass rate is quoting something that doesn't exist.
• A current Academic Preparedness Level table. At least two different band legends circulate as current. The legend printed on your score report is the one that governs.
• ATI prep package prices. We won't publish a price we can't confirm on a live product page today, so we've left them out rather than guess.
• ATI's six-week study recommendation was verified through institutions restating ATI's guidance rather than a direct read of ATI's page. We're comfortable publishing it as ATI's recommendation and flagging how we got it.

Program requirements change without notice. Verify yours directly.

ATI TEAS 7 exam prep FAQ

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