Explore ATI TEAS 7 foundations with original reading, math, science and English examples, 12 diagnostic cases, 12 retrieval cards and a 14-day plan.
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Selected Version 7 academic foundations across Reading, Mathematics, Science and English and Language Usage. This is not full content coverage, an exam-weighted or full-length mock, an alternate-format simulator, a clinical-care guide or an admissions guarantee. All passages, tables, records and cases are independently authored; no secure ATI items or textbook examples/diagrams are reproduced. Qualified educator review remains pending.
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QUESTION 01Reading
Read claims with their conditions
Read this original notice: “From 12 May to 23 May, the library reading room will close while workers repair its roof. Borrowing continues through the east entrance. Two foyer desks will support short visits, but they do not replace the reading room’s group-study capacity. Staff will review the temporary arrangement after two weeks.” What is the notice’s main purpose?
Explain temporary access and study-space changes during a specific repair period.
Argue that short foyer visits are preferable to the usual group-study arrangement.
Report that the east entrance will replace the library’s reading room after repairs.
Evaluate whether the roof repair has already improved borrowing and study access.
Answer: Explain temporary access and study-space changes during a specific repair period.
The notice announces a dated closure, retained borrowing and a limited alternative. It does not claim a permanent replacement, superior study method or measured improvement. This conclusion comes from the original passage, not outside library policy.
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Argue that short foyer visits are preferable to the usual group-study arrangement.
The desks are a limited alternative, not a stated preference over group study.
Report that the east entrance will replace the library’s reading room after repairs.
The notice concerns temporary access and does not announce this permanent replacement.
Evaluate whether the roof repair has already improved borrowing and study access.
The repair is announced; no completed evaluation or measured improvement is supplied.
Reference basis: ATI TEAS Version 7 Content Outline. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.
QUESTION 02Mathematics
Ratios, percentage bases and units
An art demonstration requires 640 mL of a fictional pigment mixture. Blue and white volumes must be in a 5:3 ratio, with volumes assumed additive for this exercise. What volume of white pigment is required?
160 mL, assigning the two-part difference between the colours to the white share.
240 mL, assigning three of the eight equal mixture parts to white pigment.
384 mL, treating three-fifths as the fraction of the total assigned to white.
400 mL, assigning the larger five-part share to the requested white pigment.
Answer: 240 mL, assigning three of the eight equal mixture parts to white pigment.
There are 5+3=8 total parts. Each part is 640/8=80 mL, so white uses 3×80=240 mL. The ratio is blue:white, not white:total. This is original arithmetic under the explicitly additive-volume assumption.
Compare the other answer choices
160 mL, assigning the two-part difference between the colours to the white share.
Using 5−3=2 of the 8 total parts gives the difference between the colour amounts, not the three-part white share.
384 mL, treating three-fifths as the fraction of the total assigned to white.
3/5 compares white with blue, not white with the combined mixture.
400 mL, assigning the larger five-part share to the requested white pigment.
400 mL is the blue share; the question requests white.
In a nonclinical model of temperature regulation, a rise above a reference range is sensed. A controller then increases heat loss, and the model’s temperature moves back toward that range. Which relationship makes the loop negative feedback?
The sensor detects the deviation before the controller changes the heat-loss signal.
The controller produces a positive amount of heat loss during the modelled response.
The response opposes the original temperature deviation rather than amplifying it.
The final reading follows the starting reading in time rather than occurring simultaneously.
Answer: The response opposes the original temperature deviation rather than amplifying it.
Negative feedback is defined by reversal of a deviation. Here the response moves temperature downward after an upward deviation. Detection, temporal order and a positive numerical amount of heat loss do not by themselves identify feedback type. This is conceptual physiology, not a care instruction.
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The sensor detects the deviation before the controller changes the heat-loss signal.
That sequence identifies signal flow but does not distinguish negative from positive feedback.
The controller produces a positive amount of heat loss during the modelled response.
The word negative refers to the relationship to the deviation, not a negative numerical response value.
The final reading follows the starting reading in time rather than occurring simultaneously.
Events occur over time in many mechanisms; temporal order alone does not identify negative feedback.
Choose the verb form that completes this original sentence in the simple present: “The list of specimens from the two cabinets ___ ready for inspection.”
is
are
have been
were
Answer: is
The head subject is singular list; specimens and cabinets belong to modifying phrases. Is agrees with that subject in the requested simple present. The other choices either disagree or fail the requested tense as well.
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are
Are is plural; the nearby plural nouns do not change the head subject.
have been
Have been is present perfect with plural agreement, not the requested singular simple present.
were
Were is past tense with plural agreement in this declarative construction.
Read the original excerpt: “Foyer desks are available for short visits. Unlike the reading room, they cannot be reserved.” What does the second sentence do in this excerpt?
Give the historical reason that the library first introduced a desk-reservation system.
Explain why the number of desks determines the duration of each permitted visit.
Limit an expectation that the temporary desks offer the same reservation feature.
Recommend using the reading room instead of the desks throughout the closure.
Answer: Limit an expectation that the temporary desks offer the same reservation feature.
The contrast marker identifies a difference in reservation features. It limits an assumption about equivalence. It gives no history, numerical duration rule or recommendation to use an unavailable room.
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Give the historical reason that the library first introduced a desk-reservation system.
No history of the reservation system is provided.
Explain why the number of desks determines the duration of each permitted visit.
Neither desk count nor a rule connecting count with visit duration appears here.
Recommend using the reading room instead of the desks throughout the closure.
The contrast supplies a feature distinction, not this recommendation.
Reference basis: ATI TEAS Version 7 Content Outline. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.
QUESTION 06Mathematics
Summarise and audit numerical records
An original five-record set is 4, 4, 5, 5, 70. An audit establishes that the last value should be 7 rather than 70. What happens to the mean and median when this correction is made?
The mean decreases, while the ordered middle value and therefore the median stay 5.
The mean stays unchanged, while the median decreases because the largest value becomes smaller.
Both measures decrease, because each uses the numerical size of every recorded value.
The mean decreases, while the median becomes 7 because that is the corrected entry.
Answer: The mean decreases, while the ordered middle value and therefore the median stay 5.
Before correction the mean is 88/5=17.6; afterward it is 25/5=5. Both ordered lists have 5 as their third value, so the median remains 5. The audit, not a wish to remove an outlier, establishes the replacement.
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The mean stays unchanged, while the median decreases because the largest value becomes smaller.
The sum falls by 63, so its five-value arithmetic mean cannot remain unchanged.
Both measures decrease, because each uses the numerical size of every recorded value.
The median uses ordered position, not every value’s numerical size.
The mean decreases, while the median becomes 7 because that is the corrected entry.
The corrected entry remains the largest, not the middle of this five-value set.
An original classroom study compares seedling growth under 4 versus 8 hours of light daily. Each group starts with 20 seedlings and receives the same daily water volume, container type and temperature. The proposed outcome is plant growth. Which recorded quantity directly operationalises that dependent outcome?
Assigned hours of light each day, because that quantity differs between the study groups.
Initial number of seedlings, because that quantity establishes equal group starting sizes.
Daily water volume, because that quantity is held constant while light exposure differs.
Each seedling’s height change in centimetres over the same specified seven-day period.
Answer: Each seedling’s height change in centimetres over the same specified seven-day period.
Height change over a specified common period is a measurable definition of the stated growth outcome. Light duration is the manipulated factor; starting count and water volume are controlled inputs in this design. This fictional design question does not establish a universal plant-growth result.
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Assigned hours of light each day, because that quantity differs between the study groups.
This is the manipulated independent variable, not the observed growth outcome.
Initial number of seedlings, because that quantity establishes equal group starting sizes.
This describes a baseline group property, not each plant’s growth during the period.
Daily water volume, because that quantity is held constant while light exposure differs.
This is a held-constant input in the supplied design, not the dependent outcome.
Read this original draft: “The glossary preserves specialised terms so readers can search for them. ___, the overview replaces those terms with everyday wording.” Which opening explicitly signals the contrast between the two approaches?
For example
In contrast
Similarly
As a result
Answer: In contrast
In contrast marks the difference between retaining technical wording and replacing it. The text presents two approaches, not an example of one, a similarity or an asserted causal result. The task asks for a specified discourse relation rather than a personal style preference.
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For example
The second approach is not an example of preserving the same specialised wording.
Similarly
This asserts similarity where the task asks to signal the contrasting wording choices.
As a result
The draft supplies no causal claim that the glossary produces the overview’s wording choice.
Original announcement: the reading room is closed during this week; borrowing continues through the east entrance. Temporary service table: hold pickup—Monday through Friday, 09:00–17:00; foyer desks—Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10:00–14:00. For a Tuesday visit at 12:00 during that week, which service combination is supported?
Reading room and hold pickup, because both use the library’s weekday opening hours.
Foyer desk and hold pickup, because noon falls within both stated time ranges.
Reading room and foyer desk, because the closure changes access rather than availability.
Hold pickup, with neither the reading room nor the foyer desks listed as available.
Answer: Hold pickup, with neither the reading room nor the foyer desks listed as available.
Tuesday at noon fits the hold-pickup days and hours. It does not fit the desk days, and the announcement explicitly closes the reading room. The answer is limited to the provided fictional timetable, not a claim about a real library.
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Reading room and hold pickup, because both use the library’s weekday opening hours.
The general weekday pickup schedule does not reopen the explicitly closed room.
Foyer desk and hold pickup, because noon falls within both stated time ranges.
Noon fits desk hours but Tuesday does not fit the desk days; both conditions matter.
Reading room and foyer desk, because the closure changes access rather than availability.
Both exclusions remain: the room is closed and desks are not listed on Tuesday.
Reference basis: ATI TEAS Version 7 Content Outline. These are original learning questions, not questions reproduced from the references.
QUESTION 10Mathematics
Ratios, percentage bases and units
In an original survey of 80 library users, 60 had borrowed a book that month. Of those 60 borrowers, 18 renewed a book. What percentage of all 80 surveyed users renewed a book?
30%, using the 18 renewals over the 60 people who had borrowed a book.
75%, using the 60 borrowers over the 80 people in the complete survey.
18%, treating the number of renewals as a percentage of the complete survey.
22.5%, using the 18 renewals over the 80 people in the requested population.
Answer: 22.5%, using the 18 renewals over the 80 people in the requested population.
The requested base is all 80 surveyed users:18/80×100=22.5%. The 30% figure answers the different question about renewal among borrowers. The case is a supplied fictional table, not a population estimate for actual library use.
Compare the other answer choices
30%, using the 18 renewals over the 60 people who had borrowed a book.
This is the renewal percentage among borrowers, which is not the requested base.
75%, using the 60 borrowers over the 80 people in the complete survey.
This is the percentage who borrowed, a different numerator.
18%, treating the number of renewals as a percentage of the complete survey.
A count is not a percentage without the denominator and conversion.
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