ATI TEAS 7 Full Practice Exam

What is covered

• TEAS 7 Reading — Practice Test 1

  6 questions · 64 min · Reading · Key Ideas and Details

• TEAS 7 Mathematics — Practice Test 1

  5 questions · 54 min · Mathematics · Numbers and Algebra

• TEAS 7 Science — Practice Test 1

  5 questions · 63 min · Science · Human Anatomy and Physiology

• TEAS 7 English and Language Usage — Practice Test 1

  4 questions · 28 min · English and Language Usage · Conventions of Standard English

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Real questions from this exam, with the explanation for every option — including the ones you would not pick.

1. Passage

   In 1847, a Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something his colleagues had managed to overlook for years. Women who delivered their babies in the ward staffed by physicians died of puerperal fever at nearly three times the rate of women delivered by midwives in the ward next door. The two wards were otherwise alike: same building, same admission days, same patients arriving in the same condition.

   Semmelweis worked through the differences one at a time. The physicians, unlike the midwives, spent their mornings performing autopsies. They then walked directly to the delivery room. Semmelweis proposed that some invisible material was being carried from the corpses to the labouring women on the physicians' hands, and he ordered his staff to scrub with a chlorinated lime solution before every examination. Mortality in the physicians' ward fell from eighteen per cent to around two per cent within a year.

   His colleagues were not persuaded. Germ theory was still decades away, and Semmelweis could not say what the invisible material was — only that washing removed it. Worse, his conclusion carried an accusation: that respectable doctors had been killing their own patients. Semmelweis was dismissed from his post, and the practice lapsed after he left. He died in an asylum in 1865, the year Joseph Lister began publishing on antisepsis.

   Reading

   Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?

   • Semmelweis identified an effective intervention but was rejected because he could not explain why it worked.

     Correct. The passage spends its first half establishing that the intervention worked (18% down to 2%) and its second half on why it was rejected anyway — he "could not say what the invisible material was" and the claim insulted his colleagues. A central idea has to account for both halves, and only this option does.

   • Handwashing with chlorinated lime is the most important discovery in the history of medicine.

     Too strong, and not the author's claim. The passage never ranks this discovery against any other. Watch for options that inflate a specific finding into a superlative — on the TEAS these are wrong far more often than not.

   • Midwives in the nineteenth century were better trained than physicians.

     The passage says the midwives' ward had lower mortality, but attributes that to the physicians performing autopsies, not to superior training. This confuses a stated outcome with an unstated cause.

   • Puerperal fever was the leading cause of death among women in 1847.

     Not stated. The passage gives mortality rates within two specific wards and never compares puerperal fever to other causes of death. A detail can be true in the real world and still be unsupported by the text.

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2. Reading

   The author mentions that Semmelweis died "the year Joseph Lister began publishing on antisepsis" primarily in order to —

   • underline the irony that vindication arrived just as Semmelweis died

     Correct. The detail is placed in the final sentence, immediately after his death in an asylum. Its work is tonal: the idea he was destroyed for was about to become orthodoxy. Questions asking why an author included a detail are asking about function, not fact.

   • establish that Lister and Semmelweis collaborated on antisepsis

     The passage gives no hint of collaboration — only that the two events coincided in 1865. Co-occurrence in a sentence is not a working relationship.

   • explain the medical cause of Semmelweis's death

     The clause is about Lister's publications, not about Semmelweis's cause of death, which the passage never gives.

   • argue that Lister deserves less credit than he receives

     The passage makes no evaluative claim about Lister at all. It names him once, neutrally.

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3. Mathematics

   A medication is supplied as 250 mg in 5 mL. A patient is prescribed 400 mg. How many millilitres should be administered?

   • 8 mL

     Correct. Set up the proportion 250 mg / 5 mL = 400 mg / x, so x = (400 × 5) / 250 = 8 mL. A useful sanity check: 400 mg is 1.6 × the supplied dose, and 1.6 × 5 mL = 8 mL.

   • 6.25 mL

     This is 400 ÷ 64, or the result of dividing in the wrong direction somewhere. Check the answer against the ratio: 6.25 mL would deliver 312.5 mg, not 400 mg.

   • 10 mL

     10 mL would deliver 500 mg. This usually comes from rounding 400 up to 500 mid-calculation.

   • 2 mL

     This inverts the ratio, dividing the supplied volume by the factor instead of multiplying. 2 mL delivers only 100 mg.

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4. Mathematics

   A hospital ward has 48 beds. On Monday 36 beds are occupied. What percentage of the beds are unoccupied?

   • 25%

     Correct. Unoccupied beds = 48 − 36 = 12, and 12/48 = 0.25 = 25%. The question asks for unoccupied, so the subtraction has to happen before the division.

   • 75%

     75% is the occupied share (36/48). This is the single most common error on this item type — answering the quantity the question did not ask for.

   • 12%

     This reports the raw count of empty beds as though it were a percentage, skipping the division by 48.

   • 33%

     This comes from 12/36 — dividing the empty beds by the occupied beds rather than by the total.

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5. Science

   Which chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic circulation?

   • Left ventricle

     Correct. Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs to the left atrium, passes to the left ventricle, and is ejected through the aorta to the body. The left ventricle has the thickest wall precisely because it drives the whole systemic circuit.

   • Right ventricle

     The right ventricle pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs via the pulmonary artery — pulmonary circulation, not systemic.

   • Left atrium

     The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins, but it only moves it into the left ventricle. Atria fill; ventricles pump.

   • Right atrium

     The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood returning from the body via the venae cavae — the start of the circuit, not the systemic output.

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