ATI TEAS study guide
ATI TEAS · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The ATI TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills) is a standardized exam that nursing and allied health programs use to assess applicant readiness. It is not a licensure exam and it does not confer a credential - it is an admissions and readiness test, and each program decides what score it will accept. The ATI TEAS study guide has 4 sections and about 1,028 words.
01Reading
The TEAS Reading section tests whether you can extract and evaluate meaning quickly from short passages, tables, and graphs. Know these concept clusters: main idea and supporting details; inference versus explicit statement; author's purpose and tone; text structure (compare-contrast, cause-effect, chronological, problem-solution); fact versus opinion; bias and source credibility; summarizing; vocabulary in context; and interpreting graphics.
290 words, about 1 min02Mathematics
The Mathematics section covers arithmetic with fractions, decimals, and percents; ratios and proportions; order of operations; algebraic expressions and linear equations; geometry (perimeter, area, volume); measurement and unit conversion; and data interpretation (mean, median, mode, range, reading tables and graphs). Word problems are common, so translation matters: 'of' usually means multiply, 'per' signals a rate, and 'is' often marks the equals sign.
264 words, about 1 min03Science
Science questions span scientific reasoning, life science, human anatomy and physiology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science. In reasoning items, identify the independent variable (what the experimenter changes), dependent variable (what is measured), and controlled variables (held constant).
239 words, about 1 min04English and Language Usage
The English and Language Usage section tests standard conventions: parts of speech, sentence structure, fragments and run-ons, subject-verb agreement, pronoun case and agreement, punctuation, modifiers, parallelism, capitalization, and commonly confused words. Sentence structure: a simple sentence has one independent clause; a compound sentence joins two independent clauses with a comma plus a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) or a semicolon; a complex sentence pairs an independent clause with a dependent clause.
235 words, about 1 min