Medical admissions reasoning practice questions

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for medical admissions reasoning selection in the academic admissions, scholarships, and placement sector with 5 skill areas: critical thinking, numerical reasoning, reading comprehension, logical reasoning and case analysis. Every question was written by Novus editors for this suite (none are taken from live or leaked exams), and the full bank holds 52 scored questions across three modes, plus 8 reserve questions used to vary repeat attempts. Answer keys never ship to the browser: your answers are scored server-side, and results stay on your device.

Skills this suite practises

• Critical thinking: Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Numerical reasoning: Arithmetic, fractions, percentages, ratios, rates, estimation, word problems, and number relationships.
• Reading comprehension: Understanding passages, instructions, policies, technical material, and workplace documents.
• Logical reasoning: Conditional logic, syllogisms, ordering, grouping, argument structure, and constraint problems.
• Case analysis: Synthesizing multiple documents and making a reasoned recommendation.

Sample questions from the guided bank

Two of the 10 guided-practice questions, shown exactly as they appear in a session. Answers and explanations are not printed here, because keys stay on the server. Open guided practice to answer them and see how you did.

1. In educational science-reasoning for medical admissions familiarization, a control group mainly helps:

   • A. Provide a comparison so changes are not credited only to time or selection
   • B. Guarantee no side effects ever
   • C. Replace ethics review
   • D. Prove absolute safety

2. Clinic flyer: “Supplement cut colds 50%” from customers who already buy supplements. Best critique?

   • A. All supplements work
   • B. Self-selected buyers may differ; without proper comparison the claim overreaches
   • C. Percentages never mislead
   • D. Customer stories prove causation

Practice modes and timing

Guided practice is untimed-feeling and instructional; the mini-test is a short timed check; the full simulation mirrors a complete sitting. All three draw on separate question sets, so moving up a mode never repeats what you practised.

Study outline

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