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OpenExam.ATI TEAS · FOUNDATION PRACTICE

Mixed skills

Name: __________________________Date: __________________

10 original practice questions · Untimed · Follow each question’s response instructions

1. Which revision connects both complete clauses with standard punctuation, without adding a coordinating conjunction? Original: “The volunteer checked the labels, the curator compared the ledger.”

A. The volunteer checked the labels, the curator compared the ledger.B. The volunteer checked the labels, however the curator compared the ledger.C. The volunteer checked the labels; the curator compared the ledger.D. The volunteer checked the labels. While the curator compared the ledger.

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2. 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?

A. The sensor detects the deviation before the controller changes the heat-loss signal.B. The controller produces a positive amount of heat loss during the modelled response.C. The response opposes the original temperature deviation rather than amplifying it.D. The final reading follows the starting reading in time rather than occurring simultaneously.

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3. 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?

A. Assigned hours of light each day, because that quantity differs between the study groups.B. Initial number of seedlings, because that quantity establishes equal group starting sizes.C. Daily water volume, because that quantity is held constant while light exposure differs.D. Each seedling’s height change in centimetres over the same specified seven-day period.

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4. 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?

A. Give the historical reason that the library first introduced a desk-reservation system.B. Explain why the number of desks determines the duration of each permitted visit.C. Limit an expectation that the temporary desks offer the same reservation feature.D. Recommend using the reading room instead of the desks throughout the closure.

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5. Choose the verb form that completes this original sentence in the simple present: “The list of specimens from the two cabinets ___ ready for inspection.”

A. isB. areC. have beenD. were

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6. 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?

A. 160 mL, assigning the two-part difference between the colours to the white share.B. 240 mL, assigning three of the eight equal mixture parts to white pigment.C. 384 mL, treating three-fifths as the fraction of the total assigned to white.D. 400 mL, assigning the larger five-part share to the requested white pigment.

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7. 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?

A. 30%, using the 18 renewals over the 60 people who had borrowed a book.B. 75%, using the 60 borrowers over the 80 people in the complete survey.C. 18%, treating the number of renewals as a percentage of the complete survey.D. 22.5%, using the 18 renewals over the 80 people in the requested population.

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8. 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?

A. For exampleB. In contrastC. SimilarlyD. As a result

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9. 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?

A. Reading room and hold pickup, because both use the library’s weekday opening hours.B. Foyer desk and hold pickup, because noon falls within both stated time ranges.C. Reading room and foyer desk, because the closure changes access rather than availability.D. Hold pickup, with neither the reading room nor the foyer desks listed as available.

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10. Two equal-volume compartments are separated by a membrane permeable to substances X and Y. Initially, X is 8 concentration units on the left and 2 on the right;Y is 1 on the left and 5 on the right. With passive diffusion only, what are the initial net movements?

A. X and Y both move left to right, following the side with the higher combined concentration.B. X moves left to right;Y moves right to left, each following its own concentration gradient.C. X moves right to left;Y moves left to right, each moving toward its higher concentration.D. X and Y both move right to left, following the side with the smaller starting volume.

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OpenExam.ANSWER KEY · KEEP SEPARATE

Answers & reasoning

1. The volunteer checked the labels; the curator compared the ledger. · Choice C

Both subject–verb groups can stand as independent clauses. A semicolon connects them without a coordinating conjunction. A bare comma or comma plus however does not provide that connection; starting the second sentence with while makes it a dependent fragment here.

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2. The response opposes the original temperature deviation rather than amplifying it. · Choice C

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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3. Each seedling’s height change in centimetres over the same specified seven-day period. · Choice D

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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4. Limit an expectation that the temporary desks offer the same reservation feature. · Choice C

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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5. is · Choice A

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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6. 240 mL, assigning three of the eight equal mixture parts to white pigment. · Choice B

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.

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7. 22.5%, using the 18 renewals over the 80 people in the requested population. · Choice D

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.

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8. In contrast · Choice B

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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9. Hold pickup, with neither the reading room nor the foyer desks listed as available. · Choice D

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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10. X moves left to right;Y moves right to left, each following its own concentration gradient. · Choice B

X has its higher concentration on the left;Y has its higher concentration on the right. Each permeant substance diffuses down its own concentration gradient. Combining concentrations of different substances or inventing a volume difference does not replace those separate gradients.

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Original source-grounded practice. Content and reasoning checks are separate from professional educator review, which remains pending. Not an official exam paper.