What is on the TEAS 7 test

The TEAS is taken in one sitting, and the sections come in a fixed order: Reading, Mathematics, Science, and English and Language Usage. Each section has its own clock, and unused time does not carry forward — finishing Reading early does not buy you minutes in Math.

Of the 170 items, 150 are scored and 20 are unscored pretest items — questions ATI is trialing for future forms. They are mixed in with the rest and are not marked, so there is no way to spot them and no benefit in trying.

The practical consequence is small but worth knowing: a question that strikes you as unusually strange may simply be one of the twenty. It is not a signal that you have misunderstood the section.

You can move backward and forward within the section you are in and change answers freely. Once a section is closed and the next one begins, that section is finished — you cannot return to it.

That makes the flagging strategy simple. Inside a section, skip anything that stalls you and come back before the clock runs out. Never leave a question blank on the way out of a section, because there is no way back in.

Divide the numbers and the shape of the exam changes. Math gives you about 90 seconds a question, the most of any section. Reading and Science give about 72 seconds, and Reading spends part of that on the passage before you reach the question. English gives you a flat minute.

So the section that feels hardest and the section that is tightest are usually not the same one. Science is the largest by item count and Reading is the one where the clock does the damage.

Alongside standard multiple choice, the exam uses alternate item types: multiple-select, fill-in-the-blank with a numeric answer, hot spot, and ordered response.