Understanding your TEAS score

The company that produces the TEAS test, ATI gives an explanation on how they calculate their score HERE Links to an external site.

ATI also provides potential test takes with what a score report looks like after taking TEAS 7 HERE Links to an external site.

To summarize there are 150 graded questions each worth 1 point distributed across the 4 content areas of Science, Math, English, and Reading. The student will get an overall percentile score as well  as percentile scores for each individual content area.  Percentages in red show how you placed vs all people that took the test, and percentages in blue show how you placed vs people within your desired career track.

Usually the percentage of questions you get correct will be very close to your actual percent score but ATI also takes variations between the different versions of the test into account as well as how well your peers performed, so there might be a difference between your percentile score and your actual percent answered correctly. In this situation the adjusted percentile score shown on the first page is always the score institutions use.

Pages 2-5 of the score report contains useful information about how many questions you answered correct in each of the content and sub-content areas. It even makes recommendations on which specific concepts you should brush up on. When the score reports mentions specific chapters to look at they are referring to their own official study guide however, as long as you have a list of concepts that you need to work on you are in no way limited to using the official guide and there are many other resources available.