Free TEAS practice test: section-by-section sets, with explanations

A free TEAS practice test is worth taking for one reason: it finds the section you are actually losing points in. The exam times its four sections separately and reports a score for each, so a set that mixes reading, math, science, and English tells you almost nothing about which of them to work on — every set below belongs to one section and one topic, and every question ends in an explanation.

Start with the section you are least sure of; the set you finish first will tell you whether you guessed right.

What a set here gives you

Each set is drawn from that topic's own bank, written to the sub-content area ATI publishes for it, so a Measurement and Data set asks the arithmetic the blueprint files under Measurement and Data rather than a generic math mixture. Every question in a free set carries four things:

• A hint before you commit — free sets carry one, because a wrong answer should be a learning event rather than a surprise.
• A full explanation of the right answer.
• A reason for each wrong choice — the named mistake each choice is built from, so you can see why the attractive answer is the wrong one.
• No time limit. A free set has no time limit; it is for learning the material, and pacing is a separate skill and a separate sitting.

The shape ATI publishes

ATI's own pages state the form. There are "four main areas: reading, math, science, and English language usage", "170 total questions ... which includes 150 scored items and 20 unscored, pretest items", and "the total time limit is 209 minutes", with "each section timed separately". Scoring is "marked right or wrong — no partial credit", and there is "no penalty for guessing", so an unanswered question can only cost you.

Two consequences for practice. First, the twenty unscored items are indistinguishable from the scored ones — "You can't. And that's the point." — so practicing under the assumption that some questions do not matter is practicing the wrong habit. Second, because the sections are timed separately, a section you know cold but answer slowly is still a section you can lose.

The full breakdown, section by section, is on how many questions are on the TEAS.

Practice by section

• Math practice — numbers and algebra, measurement and data
• Science practice — human anatomy and physiology, biology, chemistry, scientific reasoning
• Reading practice — key ideas and details, craft and structure, integration of knowledge and ideas
• English practice — conventions of standard English, knowledge of language, using language and vocabulary

Every topic's guide teaches the material its set asks about, so a wrong answer has somewhere to send you: the guide for that sub-content area, then the set again a day later.

What these sets are not

They do not predict a score. ATI equates the total and content-area scores across versions of the exam, which is why they are "not directly calculable from other information on the score report" — a raw percentage of a practice set is not a TEAS score, and this site will not present one as if it were. Each school also "sets its own cut score", so there is no pass mark to promise.

The questions are ours. They are written to ATI's published outline for the twelve sub-content areas, not copied from any official or third-party set; the sub-content area names and their item counts are ATI's, and the descriptions of what each area asks are our own summary.

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