ASCP MLS MOCK EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Need to pipette .5ml of specimen, what do you use - ✔✔Serologic
✔✔When to give Rhogam—Gave various types with moms Anti-X found - ✔✔Mother
Neg with baby pos mother has Anti-C
✔✔Cold antibody - ✔✔Anti-I
✔✔Rouleaux seen microscopically gives ABO discrepancy - ✔✔use Saline replacement
technique
✔✔ABO discovery - ✔✔Landsteiner
✔✔According to Beers law - ✔✔directly proportional to the amount of light absorbed, or
inversely proportional to transmitted light.
✔✔Dce/dce - ✔✔R0/r
✔✔QC +/- of bacteria question. Which should you use for pos and neg QC? - ✔✔Picked
oxidase- E.Coli (neg ox) and pseudomonas (pos ox)
, ✔✔Cell line question with multiple listed, anisocytosis and ovalcytes stuck out to me -
✔✔anemias and myelofibrosis
✔✔Bile Eschulin and 6.5% NaCL pos - ✔✔distinguishes Enterococcus(=) species from
the group D strep (+)
✔✔Strep pneumo hemolysis - ✔✔Answer: alpha
✔✔Strep pneumo in sputum - ✔✔
✔✔ALP seen in - ✔✔liver and bone
✔✔Someone comes in after 4hours of MI symptoms gave results of CK CKMB and
troponin - ✔✔troponin it was most elevated.
✔✔PT elevated in - ✔✔Gave various factors I choose VII
✔✔Intrinsic has which factor - ✔✔Her Answer: I picked Von Wilebrand(VIII) -I think the
answer is one of these- vWf is the common pathway: 12(Hageman), 11 (plasma
thromboplastin antecedent), prekallikrein (Fletcher), HMWK (Fitzgerald), (Christmas), 8
(Antihemophiliac)
✔✔Enterobacteria broad question - ✔✔they can't remember the question but they
chose Ferments Lactose-
Actual characteristics are: GNR, ox neg, cat pos, nitrate to nitrite, ferm glucose,
facultative anaerobes.
✔✔Someone who expresses immunity and acquired Hep B will have - ✔✔Answer: Anti-
Hbs and Anti-Hbc
✔✔Blood EDTA given to the lab 6hrs after draw will most effect - ✔✔I chose platelets
✔✔What tube quantitates the determination of Calcium - ✔✔Sodium heparin
✔✔When using a blutterfly for coag study - ✔✔Discard a blue top then use 2nd blue
✔✔Description of Football shaped egg with hyaline plugs at each end - ✔✔Answer:
Trichuris trichiura--Nematode
✔✔4 nuclei may have chromatoidal bars large, round glycogen vacuole - ✔✔Answer:
Entamoeba Histolytica--- the key words are the chromatidal bars with ROUND ends w/4
nuclei
✔✔Hypersegmented neutrophils seen in - ✔✔Answer: vitamin B12 or folate deficiencies
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Need to pipette .5ml of specimen, what do you use - ✔✔Serologic
✔✔When to give Rhogam—Gave various types with moms Anti-X found - ✔✔Mother
Neg with baby pos mother has Anti-C
✔✔Cold antibody - ✔✔Anti-I
✔✔Rouleaux seen microscopically gives ABO discrepancy - ✔✔use Saline replacement
technique
✔✔ABO discovery - ✔✔Landsteiner
✔✔According to Beers law - ✔✔directly proportional to the amount of light absorbed, or
inversely proportional to transmitted light.
✔✔Dce/dce - ✔✔R0/r
✔✔QC +/- of bacteria question. Which should you use for pos and neg QC? - ✔✔Picked
oxidase- E.Coli (neg ox) and pseudomonas (pos ox)
, ✔✔Cell line question with multiple listed, anisocytosis and ovalcytes stuck out to me -
✔✔anemias and myelofibrosis
✔✔Bile Eschulin and 6.5% NaCL pos - ✔✔distinguishes Enterococcus(=) species from
the group D strep (+)
✔✔Strep pneumo hemolysis - ✔✔Answer: alpha
✔✔Strep pneumo in sputum - ✔✔
✔✔ALP seen in - ✔✔liver and bone
✔✔Someone comes in after 4hours of MI symptoms gave results of CK CKMB and
troponin - ✔✔troponin it was most elevated.
✔✔PT elevated in - ✔✔Gave various factors I choose VII
✔✔Intrinsic has which factor - ✔✔Her Answer: I picked Von Wilebrand(VIII) -I think the
answer is one of these- vWf is the common pathway: 12(Hageman), 11 (plasma
thromboplastin antecedent), prekallikrein (Fletcher), HMWK (Fitzgerald), (Christmas), 8
(Antihemophiliac)
✔✔Enterobacteria broad question - ✔✔they can't remember the question but they
chose Ferments Lactose-
Actual characteristics are: GNR, ox neg, cat pos, nitrate to nitrite, ferm glucose,
facultative anaerobes.
✔✔Someone who expresses immunity and acquired Hep B will have - ✔✔Answer: Anti-
Hbs and Anti-Hbc
✔✔Blood EDTA given to the lab 6hrs after draw will most effect - ✔✔I chose platelets
✔✔What tube quantitates the determination of Calcium - ✔✔Sodium heparin
✔✔When using a blutterfly for coag study - ✔✔Discard a blue top then use 2nd blue
✔✔Description of Football shaped egg with hyaline plugs at each end - ✔✔Answer:
Trichuris trichiura--Nematode
✔✔4 nuclei may have chromatoidal bars large, round glycogen vacuole - ✔✔Answer:
Entamoeba Histolytica--- the key words are the chromatidal bars with ROUND ends w/4
nuclei
✔✔Hypersegmented neutrophils seen in - ✔✔Answer: vitamin B12 or folate deficiencies
