Prepare for the Kaplan Nursing Entrance Exam with these science practice questions and answers. This guide covers biology, anatomy, physiology, and chemistry.
Q: Science – What controls the body immune response?
Answer: WBC – white blood cells
Q: Science – What is the area of the brain that controls thought, plans, and behavior?
Answer: frontal lobe
Q: Science – How do the brain cells differ from other cells in the body?
Answer: The cells don’t store glucose as glycogen.
Q: Science – A client has simulation of the parasympathetic nervous system, which vital signs would the nurse expect?
Answer: Heart rate of 56 bpm, respiratory rate of 20/min
Q: Science – What is the name of the cycle where an endocrine gland release a hormone that stimulates a target organ to send a message back to endocrine gland to reduce a section of hormone?
Answer: Negative feedback cycle
Q: Science – What would be a cause of decease in the quantity of circulating red blood cells?
Answer: Decrease in oral intake.
Q: Science – Chronic hypertension causes which of the following changes in the blood vessels?
Answer: Damage to arterioles resulting in increased flow through blood vessels.
Q: Science – Asthma results in what change in the respiratory system?
Answer: Increase in mucus production.
Q: Science – What is the principle function of blood flow in the cardiovascular system?
Answer: Provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide and waste products.
Q: Science – What are the three major fluid compartments?
Answer: intracellular fluid volume, interstitial fluid volume, and vascular space.
Q: Science – What is the correct statement of how blood flows through the heart?
Answer: Blood flows from the body, into the right atrium, to the right ventricle, to the lungs, back to the left ventricle, to all parts of the body.
Q: Science – Which statement is true, about how air enters the lungs?
Answer: When the lungs expand, the pressure inside the lungs becomes negative compared to the atmospheric pressure causing air enter in the lungs.
Q: Science – What controls the firing of the sinus node to trigger the start of the cardiac cycle?
Answer: The autonomic nervous system.
Q: Science – What controls the rate and depth of respiration in a normal adult?
Answer: Chemo-receptor in response to the acid base and oxygen status.
Q: Science – The body’s ability to correct an excess or deficit of a metabolic acid depend on normal function of what system?
Answer: endocrine system.
Q: Science – What regulates the distribution of fluid enter the interstitial and intracellular compartment?
Answer: Osmosis.
Q: Science – What the body does the majority of digestion and absorption from food takes places?
Answer: Small intestine.
Q: Science – What changes in sensory function occur during to again?
Answer: Increase in response to change in temperature.
Q: Science – Asthma increase mucus results in what change?
Answer: Is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm.
Q: Science – What are the three major compartments?
Answer: intracellular fluid volume, interstitial fluid volume, and the vascular space.
Q: Science – Where does the exchange of gasses occur in the lungs?
Answer: The alveoli
Q: Science – What increase the basal metabolic rate in an individual?
Answer: stress
Q: Math – Which statement is true?
Answer: 321/336 = 107/112
Q: Math – 3/4 is the same which of the following numbers?
Answer: 750/1000
Q: Math – 3/7(4/5)=
Answer: 12/35
Q: Math – 3 7/8 / 2 1/3 =
Answer: 1 37/56
Q: Math – 47.121 + 2.01 – 14.43 =
Answer: 34.701
Q: Math – 19 is proportional to which of the following numbers?
Answer: 76/4
Q: Math – 9.32/66.2 =
Answer: 0.140
Q: Math – 25 divided by 0.009 =
Answer: 2,777.7
Q: Math – At college x, there are 2 professors for every 55 students. If there are 1650 students at this college, how many professors are there?
Answer: 601,650/55=30*2=6030*2 (2 professor per 55 students)
Q: Math – 1.679 – 0.0035 =
Answer: 1.6755
Q: Math – 0.072 =
Answer: 72/1000
Q: Math – Which value is the same as 862%?
Answer: 8.62862%/100= 8.62
Q: Math – If 32 = 24% x, what does x equal ?
Answer: 133.324%/100=0.2432=0.24 x32/0.24=x133.3=x
Q: Math – If 5 + y = -65 then y equals which of the following numbers?
Answer: y= -705+y=-65y=-65-5y=-70
Q: Math – The ratio of 4 to 9 is the same as what percent?
Answer: 44.4%4/9= 0.444*100=44.4%
Q: Math – If x/3 – 54, then x equals which of the following?
Answer: x = 16254*3=162
Q: Math – A bottle of a medication contains 16 ml, which is 20% less than a syringe containing the same medication. How much medication does the syringe contain?
Answer: 20.0 ml20/100*16=3.2+16=19.2
Q: Math – How long does the nurse allow for infusing 6 ml when the infusion bag contains 150 ml and the infusion rate is 1.5 ml per minute?
Answer: 4 minutes1.5ml—>1min6ml—->x(mins)mins = 6/1.5mins = 4
Q: Math – A researcher works for $25.50 per hour. The researcher receives a 85 cent per hour raise after working six months. what is the percent increase in hourly pay?
Answer: 3.3%0.85/25.50=0.0333×100=3.3%
Q: Math – How many days does a scientist grow a culture of 3000 cells at 7% growth per day to increase the number of cells by 630?
Answer: 3 days30000.07d = 630210*d = 630d = 630/210d = 3
Q: Grammar – Passage 1 (Transfusion)Which sentence includes an incorrect form of verb?
Answer: Sentence 88 Advances in medicine continues to reduce the risk of transmitting viruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), through blood.
Q: Grammar – Passage 1 (Transfusion)Which sentence should be deleted because it is unrelated to the other sentences in its paragraph?
Answer: Sentence 1818 Sometimes people choose not to donate blood.
Q: Grammar – Passage 1 (Transfusion)Which word in the first paragraph is incorrect?
Answer: persons’Transfusion of a persons’ own blood is called autologous transfusion. It’s different from transfusion of blood given by others –homologous transfusion, and transfusion of blood given by friends or family — directed donation.
Q: Grammar – Passage 2 (Falls frequently)Which sentence, if any, in the last paragraph is missing a verb?
Answer: All the sentences include a verb
Q: Grammar – Passage 2 (Falls frequently)Which sentence is repetitive and unnecessary?
Answer: Sentence 1111 They are frail and easily hurt.
Q: Grammar – Passage 2 (Falls frequently)Which sentence can be added to expand the information presented in sentences 14, 15, and 16?14 As people age, their eyesight, hearing, and reflexes often diminish, increasing their likelihood of falling. 15 Sometimes they do not see or hear things that might warn them of danger. 16 Frequently their adaptation to sudden changes in position diminishes.
Answer: Often, their coordination also decreases as they age
Q: Grammar – Passage 3 (Erythrocytes)Where is the best place to add the following paragraph?During the last seven months of gestation, developing babies’ marrow produces fetal hemoglobin. This hemoglobin is called hemoglobin F. Hemoglobin A, adult hemoglobin, starts to replace hemoglobin F a few weeks before birth.
Answer: Following sentence 1212 Abnormal levels of hemoglobin affect oxygen delivery to the tissues, which hinders the body’s functions.
Q: Grammar – Passage 3 (Erythrocytes)Which sentence has an incorrect subject-verb agreement?
Answer: sentence 1111 The amount of hemoglobin in red blood cells influence the amount of oxygen they can carry.
Q: Grammar – Passage 3 (Erythrocytes)Which sentence includes an unnecessary word?
Answer: sentence 17 includes the unnecessary word both.
Q: Grammar – Passage 4 (Pediatric)Which sentence or sentences should be deleted to remove unrelated information?
Answer: Sentence 8 and 98 The surgeons complete special training to prepare them to treat children from the newborn stage through late adolescence. 9 Pediatric surgeons use equipment and facilities specially designed for the surgical needs of children.
Q: Grammar – Passage 4 (Pediatric)How do sentences 17 through 19 contribute to the passage?
Answer: They transition from the passage’s main information to its conclusion.
Q: Grammar – Passage 4 (Pediatric)Which sentence is unnecessary?
Answer: Sentence 2323 Pediatric nurses help people feel better.
Q: Grammar – Passage 5 (Pharmacology)What information follows sentence 10 about the sciences and fields in nursing Pharmacology?10 It joins these with statistics, mathematics, business, education and other fields.
Answer: Subtypes of nursing pharmacology
Q: Grammar – Passage 5 (Pharmacology)Which sentence is repeating and unnecessary to the passage?
Answer: Sentence 1515 They know that medications are tested for effectiveness before they treat disease.
Q: Grammar – Passage 5 (Pharmacology)Which sentence includes an error in publication?
Answer: Sentence 1717 Nurses continually study it, to learn about new medications and new types of medications.
Q: Grammar – Passage 6 (Nurses)Where is the best place to add this sentence?It also gives there more energy to do their jobs
Answer: After sentence 1313 It shields them from the temptations of harmful drugs and excessive drinking.
Q: Grammar – Passage 6 (Nurses)Which of the following sentences contains an incorrect word?
Answer: The word roll in sentence 1414 Nurses who see themselves as roll models of health also take care of their emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
Q: Grammar – Passage 6 (Nurses)Which choice describes how to correct a punctuation error in the passage?
Answer: Add a comma after the word needs in the sentence 77 They invest in themselves and their own needs enabling them to meet other’s needs.
Q: Grammar – Passage 7 (Chemistry)What information is presented after chemistry is defined?
Answer: Types of chemistry
Q: Grammar – Passage 7 (Chemistry)Which word is incorrect in its sentence?
Answer: The word makes in sentence 1919 All types of chemistry work together to describe the material and energy that makes up our world.
Q: Grammar – Passage 7 (Chemistry)Where is the best place to add this paragraph?Today, emerging fields of study blur lines between classic sciences, such as chemistry. Modern advances in geology, astronomy, and physics blur this line. Geology overlaps chemistry, producing geochemistry. Astronomy overlaps chemistry, producing astrochemistry. Physics overlaps chemistry, producing physical chemistry.
Answer: After sentence 1010 It also investigates how temperature, pressure, and other conditions affect matter.