TEAS Reading is 45 scored questions in 55 minutes, all based on passages and other sources in front of you — so nothing has to be memorised. It rewards working from the text rather than from prior knowledge. Questions range from locating an explicit detail to following an author's argument and combining information from more than one source.
What reading covers on the TEAS 7
- Key ideas and details: main idea, supporting evidence and summarising
- Craft and structure: author's purpose, tone, text structure and word meaning in context
- Integration of knowledge and ideas: comparing sources and following an argument
- Using instructions, labels, maps, legends and other everyday documents
- Distinguishing fact from opinion, and stated from implied
Where candidates lose marks
Answering from what you already know instead of what the passage actually says.
Picking an option that is true but doesn't answer the question asked.
Reading 'author's purpose' as 'your opinion of the topic'.
Missing qualifying words — always, never, most — that change which option is correct.
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