Nursing-school entry

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for nursing-school entry selection in the healthcare and clinical education sector with 5 skill areas: verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, situational judgment, critical thinking and data interpretation. 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

• Verbal reasoning — Drawing conclusions from written information without relying on outside assumptions.
• Numerical reasoning — Arithmetic, fractions, percentages, ratios, rates, estimation, word problems, and number relationships.
• Situational judgment — Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Critical thinking — Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Data interpretation — Tables, charts, graphs, dashboards, trends, comparisons, and evidence-based conclusions.

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 — keys stay on the server — so open guided practice to answer them and see how you did.

1. A nursing-school entry candidate's primary duty in preparation practice is to:

   • A. Apply nursing-school entry reasoning safely within approved study/work procedures and limits
   • B. Ignore checks to finish faster
   • C. Bypass required verification casually
   • D. Invent undocumented shortcuts as policy

2. You see an unsafe or integrity problem during nursing-school entry work. Best first action?

   • A. Pause the hazard path, warn others, and escalate per procedure
   • B. Continue and hope it clears
   • C. Hide the issue until later
   • D. Disable related alarms permanently

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

Read the study outline for this suite’s skills, timings, and recommended lessons on one printable page, or download its standalone HTML file. The printable page can also be saved as a PDF from your browser.