Occupational-therapy admissions practice questions

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for occupational-therapy admissions selection in the healthcare and clinical education sector with 5 skill areas: situational judgment, spatial reasoning, verbal reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving. 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

• Situational judgment: Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Spatial reasoning: Rotation, folding, views, orientation, maps, and three-dimensional visualization.
• Verbal reasoning: Drawing conclusions from written information without relying on outside assumptions.
• Critical thinking: Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Problem solving: Selecting methods, combining information, troubleshooting, and reaching practical solutions.

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. Occupational therapy most directly focuses on enabling:

   • A. Only elite athletic performance
   • B. Participation in meaningful daily activities (occupations) despite barriers
   • C. Surgical fracture fixation
   • D. Prescribing controlled medications independently

2. An admissions essay describes volunteering by doing tasks a client could do independently. Stronger OT reasoning would emphasize:

   • A. Finishing chores faster than the client
   • B. Keeping clients passive to avoid risk forever
   • C. Supporting client choice, graded challenge, and skill-building toward independence
   • D. Avoiding all activity analysis

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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