TEAS Practice Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A backpack originally costs $60 and is discounted by 25%. What is the sale price before tax?
$35
$15
$45
$48
2. A researcher is evaluating a claim about the current quality of local drinking water. Which source would provide the strongest evidence?
A recent certified-laboratory report identifying local samples, methods, and results
A ten-year-old general textbook chapter about water treatment
A resident’s social-media post describing the taste of the water
An advertisement from a company that sells home water filters
3. A cleaning mixture uses 2 cups of concentrate for every 5 cups of water. How much concentrate is needed when 15 cups of water are used?
4 cups
5 cups
7.5 cups
6 cups
4. During normal breathing, where does most gas exchange between the air and bloodstream occur?
In the alveoli
In the diaphragm
In the trachea
In the bronchi
5. A clinic sends appointment reminders by text message. After the change, missed appointments decline, and patients report that the reminders are useful. Which statement best expresses the main idea?
All patients prefer text messages to phone calls.
Text reminders may help clinics reduce missed appointments.
Clinics should stop scheduling appointments far in advance.
Missed appointments occur mainly because patients forget clinic locations.
6. Which organelle produces most of a eukaryotic cell’s usable ATP during aerobic cellular respiration?
Golgi apparatus
Mitochondrion
Lysosome
Nucleus
7. A rectangular room has a perimeter of 30 meters and a length of 9 meters. What is its width?
3 meters
6 meters
10.5 meters
5 meters
8. For a trait with complete dominance, one parent has genotype Aa and the other has genotype aa. What is the probability that an offspring will display the recessive phenotype?
0%
25%
50%
100%
9. A student tests whether a fertilizer increases plant growth. Which setup best isolates the effect of the fertilizer?
Give fertilizer to one plant in sunlight and compare it with a different species kept in shade.
Keep similar plants under the same conditions, giving fertilizer to one group and not to the other.
Give different amounts of fertilizer and water to every plant without using an untreated group.
Compare fertilized plants measured after two weeks with untreated plants measured after one week.
10. Which sentence uses correct subject-verb agreement?
The nurse and the technician prepares the room.
The results from the experiment shows a clear pattern.
Each of the applicants have submitted a form.
The list of required textbooks is on the desk.
11. A laboratory has 34 labeled samples after 8 samples are removed. If x represents the original number of samples, which equation and solution are correct?
x + 8 = 34, so x = 26
8x = 34, so x = 4.25
x − 8 = 34, so x = 42
x ÷ 8 = 34, so x = 272
12. Which revision most clearly corrects the misplaced modifier in this sentence: “After reviewing the chart, the decline was obvious to Maya”?
After reviewing the chart, the decline appeared obvious.
The chart, after reviewing it, showed Maya an obvious decline.
After reviewing the chart, Maya noticed the obvious decline.
Reviewing the chart, there was a decline that Maya could see.
13. A passage introduces overcrowding on city buses, explains factors causing it, and recommends adding service during peak hours. Which organizational structure best describes the passage?
Problem and solution
Chronological sequence
Definition and example
Comparison and contrast
14. A student reads: “Lena packed an umbrella even though the sky was clear. By lunchtime, dark clouds had gathered.” Which inference is best supported?
Lena anticipated that the weather might change.
Lena planned to lend the umbrella to a friend.
The morning forecast guaranteed heavy rain.
Lena prefers cloudy weather to clear weather.
15. Which sentence correctly punctuates an introductory dependent clause?
Because the deadline was near the team, worked late.
When the alarm sounded; everyone left the building.
Although the sample was small the pattern was consistent.
After the meeting ended, Priya emailed the summary.
16. Read the sentence: “The directions were explicit: each step was stated in exact detail.” What does “explicit” most nearly mean in this context?
Optional
Indirect
Brief
Clear and specific