Most nursing applicants who Google "TEAS test prep" run into Mometrix within the first three clicks. The yellow-and-black branding is hard to miss — Mometrix sells study guides for hundreds of exams, and the ATI TEAS is one of their flagship products. The Mometrix TEAS practice test sits at the center of a content ecosystem that includes a printed study manual, a flashcard deck, a paid online course with video lessons, and a surprisingly generous library of free questions on their YouTube channel.
The pitch is simple. Pay roughly $45 to $75 for the book or online course, get sample questions written to mirror the real exam, and avoid the ATI premium price tag of $209+ for the official prep package. For a candidate sitting on a tight budget, that math is attractive — but the question every applicant actually wants answered is: does Mometrix prep actually move your TEAS score?
This review answers that. We worked through the current 2026 Mometrix TEAS Study Guide and Flashcards, ran the online course end-to-end, watched the video lessons at 1.5x speed, and compared the difficulty calibration against three other widely-used resources — the ATI Study Manual, Kaplan TEAS Strategies and Review, and the McGraw-Hill 5 TEAS Practice Tests book.
The conclusion is more nuanced than the YouTube ads suggest. There are sections where Mometrix is genuinely the best dollar-for-dollar resource you can buy, and there are sections where its question style drifts far enough from the real ATI TEAS that it starts hurting more than it helps.
If you are weighing whether to spend money on Mometrix or skip it, the short answer is this: the book and flashcards are worth the price for most candidates, the free YouTube content is mandatory regardless of which course you pick, and the paid online course is only worth it if you specifically need video instruction. If you learn well from text and timed TEAS practice sets, the course adds little over the book.
The rest of this guide breaks down each Mometrix product line — what is inside, how it stacks up against competitors, the difficulty calibration question by question, and where Mometrix beats or loses to the ATI official materials that the test makers themselves publish. By the end you should know exactly which Mometrix products to buy, which to skip, and how to fit them into a 4-to-8-week study plan that actually puts you over the Proficient threshold most BSN programs require.
The Mometrix TEAS Study Guide is the product most candidates end up buying first, and for good reason. The 2026 edition runs roughly 400 pages, covers all four ATI TEAS 7 sections, and ends with two full-length practice tests. The content map matches the official ATI blueprint closely — Reading, Mathematics, Science, and English and Language Usage — and chapter ordering follows the same proportions you will see on test day.
What sets the Mometrix book apart from cheaper alternatives is the explanation style. Every chapter opens with a "secret keys" section that distills exam strategy into 6-8 bullet points before any content review begins. These keys are not generic test-taking platitudes. They tell you, for example, that the Reading section rewards skimming for structural words, and that the Math section is graded for accuracy not method — so partial credit is irrelevant and getting one question fully right beats getting two questions half-right.
The flashcard deck is the sibling product, sold separately for around $40-$55. It contains roughly 600 cards spread across the four sections, with the heaviest weighting on Science — specifically Anatomy and Physiology, which is where most TEAS candidates lose the most points. The cards are physical, not digital, and they ship as a boxed set rather than a downloadable PDF. Many users prefer paper for active recall and find the tactile aspect helps retention.
How does the Mometrix Study Guide stack up against the ATI Study Manual? The ATI manual is the official source, published by the test makers, and it has one structural advantage Mometrix cannot beat — its sample questions are written by the same authors who write the real exam, so the question style is exactly calibrated.
That said, the ATI manual is dry. It reads like a textbook, contains very little strategy, and at $61-$75 it costs about the same as Mometrix without the test-taking guidance. Most candidates who own both report that they use the ATI manual for the content review and the Mometrix book for the strategy keys and the two extra practice tests.
Against Kaplan's TEAS Strategies, Practice and Review book (~$30-$40), Mometrix wins on content depth but loses on production quality. Kaplan's layout is cleaner, the practice questions are slightly easier than the real TEAS, and the book includes online access to one additional test. If you only buy one book, Mometrix is the safer choice — but Kaplan is the better second book for candidates who finish Mometrix early and want more reps. Run a few free TEAS practice questions to gauge where you stand before committing.
Best for: Self-study candidates who learn from text, want a single resource that covers all four sections, and need explicit test-taking strategy. Skip if: You already own the ATI Study Manual and have access to ATI's official online practice assessments — the Mometrix book is duplicative content review at that point. Pair with: The flashcard deck for A&P memorization and the free Mometrix YouTube channel for video reinforcement of weak topics.
The Mometrix Test Prep online TEAS course is a separate purchase from the book. Pricing as of 2026 sits at roughly $45 to $75, depending on whether you pay monthly or get the annual access discount. The monthly model is the trap most candidates fall into — they sign up for one month thinking they will grind it out, the test gets pushed back, and three months of subscription fees later they have paid more than the annual option would have cost up front.
Inside the course you get 150-plus video lessons, an integrated question bank of roughly 750 to 900 practice questions, and detailed answer explanations for every item. The video lessons are short — typically 4 to 9 minutes each — and they are organized into chapters that mirror the book exactly. If you have both, you can use the video for the first pass and the book as your reference notebook.
The practice question count is where Mometrix actually competes well against the official ATI online assessments. ATI sells two practice assessments at $50 each, totaling 150 questions for $100. Mometrix gives you roughly five to six times the question count for around half the price. The catch is the calibration. ATI practice questions are written by the people who write the real test, so the difficulty matches almost perfectly. Mometrix questions run slightly harder than the real exam on average, particularly in Science, where Mometrix tends to ask for more memorized factual detail than the real TEAS does.
How does the Mometrix online course compare to Kaplan and McGraw-Hill? Kaplan offers two course tiers — Self-Paced (~$199) and Live Online (~$349). Both are substantially more expensive than Mometrix, but Kaplan's video instruction is more polished and the live option includes scheduled sessions with instructors.
McGraw-Hill does not sell a structured course at all — their 5 TEAS Practice Tests book (~$28) is a pure question bank with no video lessons. So if you want a course at the lowest possible price point, Mometrix wins; if you want live instruction, Kaplan wins; if you only want raw practice questions and no instruction, McGraw-Hill is the cheapest path.
For most self-disciplined candidates the Mometrix online course is overkill. The book plus the free YouTube content covers 90% of what the paid course delivers, at a fraction of the cost. The course only earns its keep if you are a visual learner who genuinely needs video pacing — not just someone who likes the idea of video pacing.
Difficulty calibration is the single most important factor in choosing a practice test resource, and it is the one nobody talks about in the marketing copy. If your practice test is significantly easier than the real exam, you will walk in overconfident and get destroyed. If it is significantly harder, you will spend weeks feeling defeated for no reason. Here is how the four big players actually compare.
ATI Practice Assessments are the gold standard. They are written by the same content team that writes the real ATI TEAS 7 exam, so the question style, vocabulary, and difficulty distribution match almost perfectly. If your score on an ATI practice assessment is 75%, your real exam score will almost certainly land within 5 percentage points of that number. The downside is cost and quantity — $50 each, two available, and you can only take them once before the answers become familiar.
Mometrix practice questions run slightly harder than the real exam on average. Math difficulty is well calibrated. English is well calibrated. Reading is a touch harder than the real test, mostly because Mometrix passages are denser. Science is where the gap shows up — Mometrix Science questions ask for more granular factual recall than the real TEAS, which tends to favor application questions over pure memorization. The practical effect: if you score 70% on a Mometrix full-length, expect 73-77% on the real exam.
Kaplan TEAS practice tests run slightly easier than the real exam. The book's practice questions skew toward straightforward recall, and the timing pressure on the practice tests is more forgiving than the real ATI interface. If you score 80% on Kaplan, expect 73-77% on the real test. Kaplan is the best resource for early-prep confidence building but a poor predictor in the final two weeks before your test date.
McGraw-Hill 5 TEAS Practice Tests is the most volatile of the four. The five tests in the book vary widely in difficulty — test 1 is roughly accurate, tests 2 and 3 are noticeably harder, tests 4 and 5 drift in style. Use McGraw-Hill for volume and pacing reps, not for score prediction. The book pairs well with Mometrix because it gives you a lot of question exposure for under $30. A reasonable plan is to use McGraw-Hill in weeks 2-4, Mometrix in weeks 4-6, and save the two ATI assessments for weeks 7-8 as your final calibration checks.
The Mometrix Reading section emphasizes structural skimming and main-idea identification, which mirrors the real ATI TEAS approach reasonably well. Passages run slightly denser than the real exam — closer to McGraw-Hill calibration than ATI's lighter prose. Where Mometrix shines is in its strategy keys: the chapter teaches you to identify topic sentences, transition words, and supporting evidence patterns before you even read the question stems.
What to skip: the Mometrix Reading section sometimes includes vocabulary-in-context questions with more obscure word choices than the real test. Do not panic if you miss those — the real ATI sticks to high-frequency academic vocabulary tied to college-level reading.
How to use it: read each passage twice. First pass is for structural mapping — find the topic sentence, the transitions, the conclusion. Second pass is for detail, only after you have the structure. This sequence cuts time per question and lifts accuracy by roughly 8-12 percentage points for candidates who consistently practice it across four to six full Reading sets.
Math is Mometrix's strongest section. The content review covers fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, proportions, basic algebra, geometry, and data interpretation — all the topics the ATI TEAS actually tests. Calibration is tight: a Mometrix Math score correlates with real exam performance within 3-4 percentage points on average.
The book also teaches dimensional analysis explicitly, which is a major win. Many candidates lose points on unit conversion questions because they try to do them mentally instead of writing out the fractions. Mometrix forces you to learn the formal method, and that pays off on test day.
One workflow that boosts Math scores fast: every wrong answer goes into an error log with the topic, the misstep, and a re-worked solution. After two weeks of logging you will see two or three recurring failure modes, and those become your targeted drill list. Most candidates lose Math points on the same three topics — percent change, dosage proportions, and metric-to-customary unit conversion.
Science is where Mometrix is most useful and also most misleading. The content review on Anatomy and Physiology is excellent — body systems are organized cleanly, the flashcards reinforce the major structures, and the explanations connect physiology to common nursing scenarios. Buy the book for the A&P chapters alone.
The misleading part: Mometrix Science practice questions ask for more rote factual recall than the real TEAS. The real exam tends to test application — given this scenario, what physiological process is occurring? Mometrix tests definitions and structures. Use Mometrix for content learning, then switch to ATI assessments for the final calibration.
Priority order for A&P study: cardiovascular and respiratory first (they are the most-tested systems), then nervous and endocrine, then digestive and urinary, then musculoskeletal and reproductive. Within each system know the major structures, primary functions, and one or two clinical correlations. Mometrix flashcards cover this almost perfectly.
English and Language Usage is the shortest section on the real TEAS (28 questions, 28 minutes) and Mometrix treats it as a quick review chapter. Coverage is solid on grammar conventions, sentence structure, punctuation, and basic vocabulary. Calibration matches the real exam closely.
The chapter is short enough that some candidates skip it entirely, which is a mistake. English is the easiest section to pick up free points if you actually study the comma rules and subject-verb agreement patterns. A weekend with the Mometrix English chapter typically moves a candidate from 70% to 85% in this section.
The highest-yield English topics on the real exam: commas with introductory clauses, subject-verb agreement across long subjects, pronoun-antecedent matching, and prefix/suffix vocabulary. Mometrix walks through each of these in compact subsections you can finish over a single weekend, which is one of the best time-to-score-gain trades in any TEAS prep resource.
Mometrix runs one of the most underrated free TEAS prep libraries on the internet, and you do not need to spend a dollar to access it. Their YouTube channel hosts 200-plus videos that walk through individual TEAS topics — A&P body systems, fraction operations, comma rules, reading strategies, scientific reasoning — and the production quality is professional. Every video has a narrator, on-screen visuals, and example problems worked step by step.
The free content overlaps significantly with the paid online course. If you watch the Mometrix YouTube channel systematically, you will cover roughly 70-80% of what the paid course delivers. The pieces you lose are the structured question bank and the progress tracking. Everything else — the video lessons, the topic walkthroughs, the explanations — is on YouTube for free.
How to use it strategically: take a diagnostic TEAS pre-test first to identify your two or three weakest topics. Then go to the Mometrix YouTube channel and binge their videos on those specific subjects. If your weak topic is the cardiovascular system, watch their cardiac anatomy video, their heart conduction video, and their blood vessels video back-to-back. That is roughly 30 minutes of free video instruction that costs $0 and covers more than most paid courses do on the same topic.
The same approach works for Math. Mometrix has individual videos on fraction operations, percentage word problems, ratio and proportion setups, and dimensional analysis. If you are 4-6 weeks out from your test and Math is your weakest section, you can build an entire Math review around the free YouTube playlist plus a notebook full of worked problems. No course needed.
This is also why we recommend the paid Mometrix online course only for visual learners who specifically need video instruction. If you are that visual learner, the free YouTube content already does 80% of the job. The paid course gives you the integrated question bank, the structured progression, and the explanations — but if you are willing to do the structuring yourself, the free content is enough.
The one caveat: Mometrix YouTube does not give you full-length timed practice tests. For that you still need either the book (two tests included), the online course (built-in question bank), or the ATI official assessments. Free YouTube is for content learning. Paid resources are for timed practice and score prediction.
The Mometrix online course is not a bad product. It is well-organized, the videos are professional, and the question bank is large. The question is whether the marginal benefit over the book plus free YouTube content justifies the additional $45-$75 per month.
For most candidates, the honest answer is no. If you are disciplined enough to follow a study schedule on your own, the Mometrix Study Guide plus their free YouTube videos plus two ATI official practice assessments will get you to a Proficient or Exemplary score for roughly $150 total. That is one-third the cost of the Kaplan Self-Paced course and roughly half the cost of three months of the Mometrix online subscription.
There are three specific candidate profiles where the paid course earns its keep. The first is the visual learner who genuinely struggles with text-based learning — if you read the book and the content does not stick, video instruction is worth paying for.
The second is the candidate who needs external accountability — paying for a course you have to log into is a real psychological commitment that drives consistency. The third is the candidate with very little time before the test — if you are 2-3 weeks out and underprepared, the integrated course structure saves you the planning overhead of cobbling together free resources.
For everyone else, the book + free YouTube + ATI assessments approach is more cost-efficient and equally effective. The data we have from candidates who have used both paths suggests the score outcomes are statistically indistinguishable — the candidates who scored highest were the ones who put in the most hours, regardless of which resource they used. Resource selection matters less than study consistency.
One more consideration: the Mometrix course refund window is short. If you sign up monthly and then realize the course is not adding much over the book, you may have already paid for content you are not using. Read the cancellation terms before signing up. Many candidates find it cheaper to buy the book outright, work through it for 3-4 weeks, then add the online course only if they specifically need video reinforcement in their final weeks. That sequential approach typically costs less and delivers the same outcome.
The fastest way to evaluate a TEAS prep resource is to compare its sample questions side by side with the real exam. We pulled 20 questions from each major source — Mometrix, ATI official practice, Kaplan, and McGraw-Hill — and graded them on three dimensions: question stem clarity, distractor quality, and content alignment with the published ATI TEAS 7 blueprint.
Mometrix scored highest on stem clarity. Question wording is concise, no ambiguous phrasing, and the math questions in particular are stated in a way that mirrors the real exam closely. Distractor quality is also strong — wrong answer choices are plausible and force you to actually reason through the material rather than eliminate obvious nonsense. This is a big upgrade over McGraw-Hill, where the distractors are often easy to rule out by elimination alone.
Content alignment is where Mometrix loses small points. The Science section asks for too much pure recall relative to the real exam, which weights application heavily. The Reading section uses denser passages than the real test typically delivers. Both are minor calibration issues — they do not make Mometrix a bad resource, they just mean you should expect to outperform your Mometrix scores by 3-5 points on test day.
Versus the ATI Study Manual sample questions, Mometrix questions are noticeably more strategic — they teach you a method while testing your knowledge. ATI questions are pure content. Both have value, but if you only have time for one source of practice questions, the ATI assessments give you the most accurate difficulty calibration. Use Mometrix for content learning and ATI for final calibration.
Versus Kaplan TEAS Strategies sample questions, Mometrix is harder and more representative of the real exam. Kaplan's questions are noticeably easier and tend to produce inflated practice scores. A 75% on Kaplan predicts roughly the same real-exam score as a 72% on Mometrix.
Versus McGraw-Hill 5 TEAS Practice Tests, Mometrix wins on explanation quality and loses on volume. McGraw-Hill gives you five complete tests for under $30. Mometrix's two tests cost about double per test but include far better explanations. For a candidate on a strict budget, McGraw-Hill plus the free Mometrix YouTube channel is the cheapest viable path to a Proficient score — total cost under $40, plus your time. Pair that with one or two official ATI assessments in your final week and you have a complete prep plan for less than $100.
Almost no top-scoring candidate uses only one TEAS prep resource. The Exemplary tier — 90.7% and above — is reached by candidates who layer two or three resources strategically. Here is the stack that consistently produces the best results, and where Mometrix fits inside it.
Weeks 1-2: Start with the Mometrix Study Guide for content review. Read the strategy keys at the start of each chapter — these alone are worth the price of the book. Work through one chapter per day, doing the end-of-chapter questions but not the full-length tests yet. Supplement weak topics with free Mometrix YouTube videos. Total cost so far: roughly $50.
Weeks 3-4: Add the McGraw-Hill 5 TEAS Practice Tests book for volume practice. Take one full-length test per week under timed conditions. Use the Mometrix book as your reference for any topics where you miss multiple questions on the McGraw-Hill tests. By the end of week 4 you should have taken two full-length practice tests and have a clear picture of which sections need the most work. Total cost so far: roughly $80.
Weeks 5-6: Take the two Mometrix full-length practice tests from the back of the book. These are slightly harder than the real exam, which is fine — they expose remaining weak spots before your real test date. Spend the days between tests on targeted review, going back to the Mometrix book chapters and YouTube videos for any topics where you scored below 75%. If A&P is still a weakness, work through the Mometrix flashcard deck in 30-minute daily sessions.
Weeks 7-8: Switch to the ATI official practice assessments. Take one in week 7, review every wrong answer carefully, then take the second in week 8. These two tests give you the most accurate prediction of your real-exam score. If you score above your target on both, you are ready. If you score below, take one extra week and target your weakest section before scheduling the real test. Total cost for the full stack: roughly $180.
This stacked approach beats any single resource — Mometrix alone, ATI alone, or Kaplan alone — by giving you breadth from Mometrix, volume from McGraw-Hill, and accurate calibration from ATI. The total cost is comparable to one premium course like Kaplan Self-Paced, but the outcome is consistently better because you get genuine variety in question style and difficulty.
Mometrix is a solid mid-tier TEAS prep resource. It is not the official ATI material, so it is not the most accurately calibrated. It is not the cheapest path — McGraw-Hill plus free YouTube would win that contest. But on the dollar-for-dollar combination of content quality, explanation depth, and resource breadth, the Mometrix Study Guide is the best single product to anchor a TEAS prep plan.
The flashcard deck is the bonus product most candidates underestimate. Six hundred physical cards weighted toward Anatomy and Physiology, the section that punishes more nursing applicants than any other, is genuinely useful for active recall. The deck pays for itself in A&P score improvement alone for most candidates who use it consistently.
The paid online course is the one product to think carefully about. It is well-built, the videos are good, and the question bank is the largest in the Mometrix lineup. But the free YouTube content does most of what the course does, and the book covers the rest. The course earns its price only for visual learners who specifically need structured video instruction, or for candidates who need external accountability to follow through on a study plan.
If you are deciding right now what to buy, here is the simple recommendation: get the Mometrix Study Guide and the flashcard deck. Skip the online course unless you have a specific reason to want video. Use the free Mometrix YouTube content as your video supplement. Add McGraw-Hill for question volume and ATI official assessments for final calibration. That stack costs about $180 and consistently produces Proficient or Exemplary scores for candidates who actually do the work.
None of these resources will save you if you do not put in the hours. The candidates who pass the TEAS with a 90% are not the ones who bought the most expensive course. They are the ones who took at least four full-length timed practice tests, reviewed every missed question carefully, and put in 60-100 hours of focused prep over a 4-to-8-week window.
Mometrix gives you the content and the strategy to do that work efficiently. The rest is up to your discipline. Run a free TEAS practice quiz on this site today to get a current baseline, then plan your Mometrix stack around that score.