TEAS NURSING SCHOOL
ENTRANCE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
Your Exam Plug
,resolute - Answer: determined (think of new years resolutions that you are determined to fufill)
germinate - Answer: sprout, seed, bud
congeal - Answer: solidify, coagulate, harden
rudimentary - Answer: basic, opposite of advanced
dandy - Answer: someone who is elegant in dress or has manners
whimsical - Answer: playful, opposite of grim or grave
penitent - Answer: person who tends to regret
querulous - Answer: habitually whining person, tends to complain or argue over minor details
virtuouso - Answer: having great skill, opposite of incompetent
mutable - Answer: prone to change (think of a mutation or an abnormal change)
antediluvial - Answer: before a flood
diluvial - Answer: having to do with a flood
legislate - Answer: mandate throught the creation of laws
prattle - Answer: talk aimlessly or idly
erroneous - Answer: mistake (err-think error)
,ominous - Answer: predicts or foreshadows disaster
unguent - Answer: ointment used to soothe or heal, opposite of irritant
orator - Answer: public speaker who needs to be able to articulate
exculpate - Answer: clear from blame
ravenous - Answer: extremely hungry
supplicant - Answer: humble begger has humility
maven - Answer: expert, has expertise
insidious - Answer: something that spreads harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner
cede - Answer: yield, give up, transfer title to someone else
eschew - Answer: forbid, shun, abatain from, avoid it
proscribe - Answer: forbid or prohibit as harmful
percent increase formula - Answer: (change/original number) x 100%
circumfrence of a circle formula - Answer: 2 x pie x radius OR diameter x pie
commensal relationship - Answer: form of a symbiotic relationship, two organisms live in close
association with each other. One benefits while the other is neither harms or benefites. +/0 relationship
, polysome - Answer: cluster of ribosomes
notochord - Answer: a semi-rigid rod in the dorsal part of all chordates, this remains as a semi-rigid
chord, although in highrt chordates it is seen only in the embryo and as a vestigial organ.
-a flexible material made out of similar material to cartilage. If a species has notochord it is by definition
it is a chordate. Ex: fish, birds, mammals
enzymes - Answer: proteins, typically work best at pH7.2
electron transport chain - Answer: directly produces the pH gradient by pumping protons out of the
mitochondrial matrix. the proton gradient is used to make ATP.
closed circuit - Answer: has continuity and allows current to flow in it
as you go from left to right across a period, what happens to electrons - Answer: electrons are added
one at a time, the electrons of the outermost shell experience an increasing amount of nuclear
attraction becoming closer and more tightly bound to the nucleus.
voltage drop - Answer: happens as current passes through a resistance, represents an energy loss, this
energy is usually dissipated in the form of heat.
what temperature does water at sea level boil - Answer: 212F, 100C, 373K
logy - Answer: lethargic, lacking in energy or vitality, mental and physical slowness
gametes - Answer: sex cells (sperm and egg), humans have 23 chromosomes in each sex cell (made of 22
autosomes), 1n, haploid because they have half as many as regular human cells. In a regular cell (not sex
cell) there is a total of 46 chromosomes in each cell or a set of 23.
regular cells - Answer: 2n, or diploid a set of 23 chromosomes or 46 chromosomes
ENTRANCE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
Your Exam Plug
,resolute - Answer: determined (think of new years resolutions that you are determined to fufill)
germinate - Answer: sprout, seed, bud
congeal - Answer: solidify, coagulate, harden
rudimentary - Answer: basic, opposite of advanced
dandy - Answer: someone who is elegant in dress or has manners
whimsical - Answer: playful, opposite of grim or grave
penitent - Answer: person who tends to regret
querulous - Answer: habitually whining person, tends to complain or argue over minor details
virtuouso - Answer: having great skill, opposite of incompetent
mutable - Answer: prone to change (think of a mutation or an abnormal change)
antediluvial - Answer: before a flood
diluvial - Answer: having to do with a flood
legislate - Answer: mandate throught the creation of laws
prattle - Answer: talk aimlessly or idly
erroneous - Answer: mistake (err-think error)
,ominous - Answer: predicts or foreshadows disaster
unguent - Answer: ointment used to soothe or heal, opposite of irritant
orator - Answer: public speaker who needs to be able to articulate
exculpate - Answer: clear from blame
ravenous - Answer: extremely hungry
supplicant - Answer: humble begger has humility
maven - Answer: expert, has expertise
insidious - Answer: something that spreads harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner
cede - Answer: yield, give up, transfer title to someone else
eschew - Answer: forbid, shun, abatain from, avoid it
proscribe - Answer: forbid or prohibit as harmful
percent increase formula - Answer: (change/original number) x 100%
circumfrence of a circle formula - Answer: 2 x pie x radius OR diameter x pie
commensal relationship - Answer: form of a symbiotic relationship, two organisms live in close
association with each other. One benefits while the other is neither harms or benefites. +/0 relationship
, polysome - Answer: cluster of ribosomes
notochord - Answer: a semi-rigid rod in the dorsal part of all chordates, this remains as a semi-rigid
chord, although in highrt chordates it is seen only in the embryo and as a vestigial organ.
-a flexible material made out of similar material to cartilage. If a species has notochord it is by definition
it is a chordate. Ex: fish, birds, mammals
enzymes - Answer: proteins, typically work best at pH7.2
electron transport chain - Answer: directly produces the pH gradient by pumping protons out of the
mitochondrial matrix. the proton gradient is used to make ATP.
closed circuit - Answer: has continuity and allows current to flow in it
as you go from left to right across a period, what happens to electrons - Answer: electrons are added
one at a time, the electrons of the outermost shell experience an increasing amount of nuclear
attraction becoming closer and more tightly bound to the nucleus.
voltage drop - Answer: happens as current passes through a resistance, represents an energy loss, this
energy is usually dissipated in the form of heat.
what temperature does water at sea level boil - Answer: 212F, 100C, 373K
logy - Answer: lethargic, lacking in energy or vitality, mental and physical slowness
gametes - Answer: sex cells (sperm and egg), humans have 23 chromosomes in each sex cell (made of 22
autosomes), 1n, haploid because they have half as many as regular human cells. In a regular cell (not sex
cell) there is a total of 46 chromosomes in each cell or a set of 23.
regular cells - Answer: 2n, or diploid a set of 23 chromosomes or 46 chromosomes
