TEAS Test Dates: There Is No National Calendar — Here's How Scheduling Actually Works

If you are searching for a list of TEAS test dates, here is the honest answer: there isn't one. The TEAS has no fixed national administration calendar — sittings run year-round, and when you can take it depends on which of the four testing routes you use and, for school-run sittings, on the windows your program publishes. That makes "when is the TEAS offered?" the wrong question. The right one is: what is my program's deadline, and how far back from it do I need to schedule?

This page covers both — the machinery (routes, registration, cost, rescheduling) and the arithmetic (working backward from a deadline with scoring time and the retake wait built in).

The four ways to take the TEAS

ATI delivers the TEAS through four proctored routes:

TEAS Online, proctored remotely by ATI — you test from home and book the slot yourself. TEAS Online, proctored remotely by your institution. In person on campus, proctored by the institution. In person at a PSI testing center.

Two details inside those routes change how you should plan. First, your school decides which routes it accepts, and schools differ absolutely — some state outright that exams taken at home or through remote proctoring will not be accepted, while others run their own online remote-proctored sittings. Confirm the accepted route on your program's admissions page before you book anything. Second, an in-person sitting at a school may be delivered online or on paper — your institution tells you which, and it is worth knowing before you rehearse: the online TEAS puts the built-in four-function calculator and the five question formats on the screen (the TEAS 7 format guide covers them), while at paper sittings the proctor provides a calculator.

How to register

Registration runs one of two ways. If your program administers the TEAS itself or requires a specific sitting, you register the way the school tells you to — each school determines how you should register and take the exam, and the instructions live on its nursing or testing-center page. If you are choosing your own sitting, you self-serve through ATI's own shop for "TEAS at ATI" (the remote-proctored route) or "TEAS at PSI" (the test-center route) at atitesting.com's registration page.

The practical difference: the self-serve routes are booked like an appointment — you pick a slot rather than wait for a posted date. School-run sittings cluster around application cycles, and the published windows vary: Texas State, for one, publishes year-plus testing windows for its Fall 2027 BSN cycle, with different end dates by applicant type. Your school's window is a fact you look up, not one anyone can list for you.

What the TEAS costs

TEAS at ATI and TEAS at PSI sittings cost $120. ATI describes most TEAS exams as averaging about $120, and its own FAQ puts the overall range at $65 to $125 — school-administered sittings set their own fees and can add proctoring, scheduling, or administration charges on top. Among programs whose fees we have read at source, published all-in totals run from $65 to $157. So treat $120 as the anchor and your school's published figure as the real number.

One more line item people miss: your registration includes one transcript credit, and ATI notes there may be an additional fee for sending scores to more schools. Applying to several programs? Price that in before you test, not after.

Rescheduling, and the rules that bite

TEAS at ATI exams may be rescheduled up to 48 hours before the exam date, for a $15 change fee. Inside 48 hours, you are committed. School-run sittings follow the school's own policy.

Test day itself has requirements that can void a sitting if you miss them: a physical, government-issued, non-expired photo ID matching your registration name — not a photo or a printout — plus, for remote sittings, a webcam, a microphone, a well-lit room, a completed Assessment Dry Run, and login starting 30 minutes early. Expect one sheet of scratch paper and one writing implement, and confirm the specifics with your proctor. None of this is difficult; all of it is checkable the week before, which is when to check it.

The deadline arithmetic (the part that actually decides your date)

Because there is no national calendar, your test date is a planning decision, and the inputs are fixed.

Your finalized score arrives within three business days of testing (online sittings show a preliminary score at completion). If the first attempt falls short, ATI requires 14 days between attempts on ATI-administered exams — and that 14 days is the floor, not the rule. Schools layer their own policies on top: Texas State requires at least 30 days between its two accepted attempts, other programs cap attempts per cycle or per year, and some count only a specific attempt. A few set the clock earlier than you'd expect — the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith requires the TEAS a full week before its application deadline, and Youngstown State publishes a hard date by which scores must arrive.

Put together, the conservative schedule is: first attempt at least three to four weeks before the earliest deadline on your list — far enough back that a retake (14+ days, plus your school's own wait if it has one, plus scoring time) still lands before the cutoff.

Booking the sitting is the easy half. The date only works if you are ready on it, and that is a diagnostic question, not a calendar question: run a timed diagnostic before you book, and if the result says you need six weeks, the week-by-week study plan is built to fill exactly that gap. Our simulator's full run takes the same 209 minutes the real exam does, with the same section clocks — rehearsing it once tells you more about your readiness for a date than any amount of calendar planning.

Scores stay usable for a while once you have them: typically about two years, but the accepting school sets the window and some are far stricter — Excelsior accepts only scores from the past year. And what counts as good enough is your program's number, not a universal one; the published floors we track run from 58.6% to 70%, and what your score report actually means explains the equated scoring behind them.

Sources: ATI's official registration and exam-day pages (registration).