Nursing ATI TEAS 7 Test 2026:
Complete Study Guide with
Practice Questions & Detailed
Rationales
1. Topic - answer-the general subject of the the text
2. Main idea - answer-the key message or thesis of the text
3. Key points - answer-key points and their supporting details
develop the main idea
4. Summary - answer-a brief restatement of the main idea and the
most important key points and details
5. Inference - answer-a conclusion reached by critical thinking,
reading between the lines, applying logic to facts and evidence
while recognizing context clues
6. Inference (explicit) - answer-clearly stated
,7. Inference (implied) - answer-implied; not directly stated
8. Conclusion - answer-a deduction made about an unstated
outcome based on prediction, details, evidence, and results
9. Descriptive - answer-includes sensory details to create a clear
mental picture for the reader
10. Expository - answer-informs, explains, or tells how to do
something; uses only facts and examples
11. Narrative - answer-tells a story to entertain, inform, or
challenge
12. Persuasive - answer-includes facts and strong opinions to
make the reader feel, think, or behave a certain way
13. Bias - answer-tendency toward a preconceived idea
14. Connotative meaning - answer-the implied meaning of a
word, with assumptions or an emotional charge attached to it
15. Denotative meaning - answer-the standard dictionary
definition of a word
,16. Rhetorical device - answer-stylistic language used to have an
emotional or persuasive effect on the reader
17. Tone - answer-the writer's attitude or emotions concerning
the topic
18. Argument - answer-a point the author believes
19. Compare and Contrast - answer-to compare means to look
for similarities; to contrast means to look for differences
20. Prediction - answer-a reader's guess of what could happen,
based on details found in the text
21. Primary source - answer-a firsthand, unaltered document by
the original author or creator; includes novels, letters, original
research papers, datasets, paintings photographs
22. Secondary source - answer-a document that analyzes,
discusses, or reproduces a primary source; includes textbooks and
many other nonfiction books, review articles, biographies
, 23. Tertiary source - answer-a reference work that consolidates
information from primary and secondary sources; includes
encyclopedias, handbooks, study guides
24. PEMDAS - answer-parentheses, exponents, multiplication,
division, addition, and subtraction
25. Least common denominator - answer-the smallest number
into which two or more denominators will divide evenly
26. Decimals - answer-represent parts of a whole
27. Ratio - answer-a comparison between the quantity of one
item and the quantity of another item
28. Mean - answer-the average of a set of numbers
29. Median - answer-the middle number
30. Mode - answer-the number that appears most often in a set
of numbers
31. Range - answer-measures the spread of a given set of
numbers
Complete Study Guide with
Practice Questions & Detailed
Rationales
1. Topic - answer-the general subject of the the text
2. Main idea - answer-the key message or thesis of the text
3. Key points - answer-key points and their supporting details
develop the main idea
4. Summary - answer-a brief restatement of the main idea and the
most important key points and details
5. Inference - answer-a conclusion reached by critical thinking,
reading between the lines, applying logic to facts and evidence
while recognizing context clues
6. Inference (explicit) - answer-clearly stated
,7. Inference (implied) - answer-implied; not directly stated
8. Conclusion - answer-a deduction made about an unstated
outcome based on prediction, details, evidence, and results
9. Descriptive - answer-includes sensory details to create a clear
mental picture for the reader
10. Expository - answer-informs, explains, or tells how to do
something; uses only facts and examples
11. Narrative - answer-tells a story to entertain, inform, or
challenge
12. Persuasive - answer-includes facts and strong opinions to
make the reader feel, think, or behave a certain way
13. Bias - answer-tendency toward a preconceived idea
14. Connotative meaning - answer-the implied meaning of a
word, with assumptions or an emotional charge attached to it
15. Denotative meaning - answer-the standard dictionary
definition of a word
,16. Rhetorical device - answer-stylistic language used to have an
emotional or persuasive effect on the reader
17. Tone - answer-the writer's attitude or emotions concerning
the topic
18. Argument - answer-a point the author believes
19. Compare and Contrast - answer-to compare means to look
for similarities; to contrast means to look for differences
20. Prediction - answer-a reader's guess of what could happen,
based on details found in the text
21. Primary source - answer-a firsthand, unaltered document by
the original author or creator; includes novels, letters, original
research papers, datasets, paintings photographs
22. Secondary source - answer-a document that analyzes,
discusses, or reproduces a primary source; includes textbooks and
many other nonfiction books, review articles, biographies
, 23. Tertiary source - answer-a reference work that consolidates
information from primary and secondary sources; includes
encyclopedias, handbooks, study guides
24. PEMDAS - answer-parentheses, exponents, multiplication,
division, addition, and subtraction
25. Least common denominator - answer-the smallest number
into which two or more denominators will divide evenly
26. Decimals - answer-represent parts of a whole
27. Ratio - answer-a comparison between the quantity of one
item and the quantity of another item
28. Mean - answer-the average of a set of numbers
29. Median - answer-the middle number
30. Mode - answer-the number that appears most often in a set
of numbers
31. Range - answer-measures the spread of a given set of
numbers
