How to pass the TEAS

Take a free TEAS practice test before you study. Your section scores show where the points are, and that is where your first week goes.

• Learn the body systems one at a time: main organs, what each does and how it connects to the next (for example how blood moves through the heart and lungs).
• Add cells and genetics (organelles, DNA, mitosis and meiosis, Punnett squares), then chemistry basics (atoms, bonding, pH, reactions).
• Practice scientific reasoning: name the variable that was changed, the one measured and the one kept constant in a short experiment.
• Make flashcards of the terms you miss, and test yourself out loud.

• Memorize the conversions: 1 g = 1,000 mg, 1 L = 1,000 mL, 1 lb = 16 oz, 3 tsp = 1 tbsp, 2 cups = 1 pint.
• Practice percent, percent change, ratio and proportion problems until you can set each up in 15 seconds.
• Estimate the answer first so a slipped decimal point stands out.
• Know your fraction to decimal pairs and how to read a small table or chart.

• Reading: read the question first, then the passage, then find the exact sentence that answers it. Wrong options are often true in general but not stated in the passage.
• Learn the question types: main idea, detail, inference, author's purpose and word meaning in context.
• English: review subject-verb agreement, pronoun reference, commas and semicolons, apostrophes and the confusable words (affect and effect, its and it's).
• When two options both look right, read each one aloud and pick the one with no error.

Pacing is roughly 73 seconds a question in Reading, 90 in Math, 72 in Science and 60 in English. Mark and return to a hard question within the section, because you cannot return to a section once it ends. There is no penalty for a wrong answer, so never leave a question blank.