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Health Education Systems Admission Assessment Reading

Main ideas, details, inferences, word meaning, and purpose in short passages.

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Badge Printer

The campus clinic replaced the paper sign-in sheet with a badge printer. Students tap an ID card, confirm a phone number, and wait for a sticker that shows the room number.

  1. 1.What is the main point of the passage?

Eastbound Hold

A card in the bus shelter says the eastbound coach will wait three minutes at the campus stop when the library clock shows the hour. Riders who arrive after that wait must take the next coach.

  1. 2.How long will the eastbound coach wait at the campus stop?

Locked Carrel

A note on a locked library carrel says the spare key stays at the third-floor desk until noon, and after noon the carrel remains locked for a reserved exam. The note never says the exam was canceled.

  1. 3.What can a reader infer about the carrel after noon?

Tepid Rinse

The lab handout tells students to rinse glassware in tepid water, not in water hot enough to fog a pair of goggles. The same line warns that a cold rinse can crack a warm beaker.

  1. 4.In this handout, what does tepid mean?

Stair Poster

A poster by the library stairwell asks readers who are carrying only one book to use the stairs, so the elevator stays free for carts and for people who need it. The poster names no fine and no closing time.

  1. 5.Why did the writer put up this poster?

Wristband Colors

At the student health desk, a blue wristband means the visit is for a vaccine, and a yellow wristband means the visit is for a throat swab. Both colors sit in labeled cups.

  1. 6.What does a yellow wristband mean at this desk?

Red Return Rack

Returned library books sit on a red rolling rack until the afternoon scan. A book on that rack is still charged to the borrower, even if it looks as though it has been shelved.

  1. 7.What follows from a book sitting on the red rack?

Pressure Pause

A clinic note tells staff to pause a blood-pressure reading when the patient has just climbed the stairs. They should wait two minutes and then wrap the cuff again.

  1. 8.What is the passage mainly telling staff to do?

Platform Stripe

Yellow stripes on the train platform mark where the first car door opens. A conductor's note says riders with a stroller should stand on the stripe nearest the elevator, not on the stripe at the far end.

  1. 9.Where should a rider with a stroller stand?

Thursday Hours

Professor Okonkwo moved Thursday office hours from the lab to the library seminar room, and the door card welcomes drop-in visits from 2 to 3. Questions about the Friday quiz should be asked before 2:40.

  1. 10.What can a reader conclude about a quiz question asked at 2:50?

Corridor Sign

A sign above the clinic corridor says patients may ambulate to the restroom if a nurse has cleared the walk. Beside the word is a drawing of a person using the handrail.

  1. 11.On this sign, what does ambulate mean?

Group Slip

The library printed a slip that asks a study group to book a room once it has three or more people. The slip prints the booking link and no other message.

  1. 12.What is the purpose of the study-group slip?

Sample Window

The campus lab accepts blood-draw samples from 7:30 until 11:00. A sample that arrives at 11:05 is stored for the next morning and is not tested the same day.

  1. 13.What happens to a sample that arrives at 11:05?

Night Loop

After 9 in the evening the campus loop bus skips the north garage and stops only at the library and the residence hall. The daytime route still includes the garage.

  1. 14.Which stops does the loop bus make after 9 in the evening?

Hold Shelf Mix

Two novels with the same title sat on the library hold shelf: the blue-sticker copy was Mara's, and the torn-cover copy was Luis's. A clerk had filed both under M by mistake.

  1. 15.What can a reader infer about the torn copy?

Needle Step

The skills sheet says to occlude the vein two inches above the draw site before sliding the needle out. A diagram shows a gloved finger pressing that spot.

  1. 16.In this sheet, what does occlude mean?

Hedge Notice

A notice on the campus shuttle asks riders to let the driver pause at the science crosswalk even when nobody is visible, because the hedge blocks the view. The notice does not change the fare.

  1. 17.Why was the crosswalk notice written?

Dental Clipboard

New patients at the dental clinic finish the clipboard before they sit down. The first page asks for a preferred pharmacy, the second asks about jaw pain, and insurance cards are copied at the window rather than on the clipboard.

  1. 18.What is the main task described for a new patient?

Stamped Slip

To move from the red line to the campus bus, a rider needs the slip the rail agent stamps at 4:10. The bus driver accepts that stamped slip until 4:40 and returns any slip that has no stamp.

  1. 19.Until what time will the bus driver accept a stamped slip?

Green Desk Lamp

The library turns on the green desk lamp when a study room is ten minutes past its ending time. The next booking starts when the lamp is lit, though the room key still works for two more minutes.

  1. 20.What should a student conclude when the green lamp turns on?

Fever Protocol

The clinic protocol calls a temperature febrile when it is 100.4 degrees or higher. A reading of 99.8 is written down as warm but not febrile, and that patient stays in the regular chair.

  1. 21.In this protocol, what does febrile mean?

Outdoor Bin

The library lobby sign says that putting a book in the outdoor bin before closing keeps the morning line short. The sign thanks readers who make that extra stop.

  1. 22.What is the lobby sign asking readers to do?

Allergy Yarn

If a patient reports a penicillin allergy, the clinic nurse ties a red yarn band to the chart and writes the drug name on the inside of the folder. A green band is used only for a latex allergy.

  1. 23.What does the nurse do for a reported penicillin allergy?

Missed Campus Stop

The night tram announcement says a rider who stays on past the campus stop may get off at the hospital and ride back at no extra charge within twenty minutes. After twenty minutes the return ride needs a new ticket.

  1. 24.What may a rider who missed the campus stop do within twenty minutes?

Yellow Reserve Tag

A yellow tag on a library book means a professor has placed it on course reserve for three days. The tag lists the course number and does not list the professor's home phone.

  1. 25.What is the passage mainly about?

Imaging Card

The imaging card asks the patient to lie prone, face toward the table, with both arms above the head. A side drawing shows the chest resting on the pad.

  1. 26.On this card, what does prone mean?

Fare Box Note

The transit office posted a note because crumpled bills jam the campus bus fare box. The note asks riders to use coins or a campus card, and it adds that a soft unfolded bill can jam the box too.

  1. 27.Why did the transit office post the fare-box note?

Tube Order

In the teaching lab, students fill the lavender tube before the green tube. Lavender is for a blood-cell count, green is for a chemistry panel, and labels go on only after both tubes are filled.

  1. 28.Which tube is filled first?

Platform Bars

When the platform screen shows a blue bar, the next campus train is four minutes away. A red bar means the train is holding at the bridge, and the minutes on the screen then stop changing.

  1. 29.What does a red bar tell a waiting rider?

Third-Floor Stacks

On the library's third floor, quiet talk is allowed at the end window, while the tables in the center stay silent. A student who needs to practice a talk is sent to the window, not to a center table.

  1. 30.What can a reader infer about practicing a talk?

Skin-Spot Card

The clinic writes benign on a skin-spot card when the spot is harmless and does not need removal. A spot marked that way is photographed and left alone.

  1. 31.On this card, what does benign mean?

Fasting Poster

A poster in the clinic waiting room names water, not soda, as the drink to finish before a fasting lab ends. It reminds patients that the fast still bans food.

  1. 32.What is the fasting poster trying to tell patients?

Ice-Pack Rule

After a vaccine, the campus clinic offers an ice pack only if the arm is still sore twenty minutes later. Students who feel fine at that point leave without a pack.

  1. 33.When does the clinic offer an ice pack?

Rain Boarding

On rainy days the campus shuttle boards under the library overhang instead of at the curb pole. A rider who waits at the pole can miss the coach, because it does not pull up to the curb in the rain.

  1. 34.What can a rider infer about waiting at the curb pole in the rain?

Map Drawer

Campus maps are kept in the flat drawer under the library atlas stand. A map may leave the drawer for one hour if the borrower leaves an ID at the desk.

  1. 35.What is required to take a campus map out for an hour?

Hidden Infection

The infection-control slide says a latent infection is present but is not producing symptoms yet. Students circle the word and write 'hidden for now' in the margin.

  1. 36.On this slide, what does latent mean?

Elevator Card

A laminated card in the clinic elevator says stretchers and people using a cane board first. Visitors carrying only a clipboard are asked to take the next car.

  1. 37.What is the purpose of the elevator card?

Dose Cups

The evening medication window uses a blue cup for pills and a clear cup for liquid. A patient who receives both carries one of each, and staff do not pour the liquid into the blue cup.

  1. 38.What is the blue cup used for?

Bike Hooks

The front car of the commuter train holds four bikes on hooks. A rider boarding with a fifth bike must wait for the next train, even when passenger seats are empty.

  1. 39.What happens to a fifth bike?

Shared Lamp

Each library table card says the shared lamp stays on until the last reader at that table leaves. A reader who wants the lamp off should move to a carrel instead of darkening the table for everyone else.

  1. 40.What should a reader who wants the lamp off do?

Pain Poster

On the clinic poster, acute pain means pain that started recently and is sharp, unlike pain that has lasted for months. A lightning bolt marks the acute column.

  1. 41.On this poster, what does acute mean?

Gel Pump

Before the skills practical, the campus lab asks each student to use the gel pump once and then show dry hands to the proctor. A second pump is used only if the first one is empty.

  1. 42.What is the main instruction before the practical?

Route C

Route C of the campus bus does not run on Sundays. A printed slip says Monday through Saturday service ends at 10:15 in the evening at the library turnaround.

  1. 43.When does Route C not run?

Flashlight Glare

The library help card says a phone flashlight on the barcode makes self-checkout fail, so the first step is to shade the code with a hand and try again. Staff do not need to be called for that first failure.

  1. 44.What can a reader conclude when glare causes the first failed scan?

Acid Station

The chemistry station says to dilute the acid by adding acid into water, never water into acid. A footnote on the same card defines dilute as make less concentrated.

  1. 45.At this station, what does dilute mean?

Visit Card

The clinic mails a card that asks patients to circle morning or afternoon and mail the card back by Friday. The card is not a bill, and it lists no prices.

  1. 46.Why was this card mailed?

Two Hooks

Exam room 2 has one hook for the patient's gown and a separate hook for a coat. The gown hook is beside the table, and the coat hook is behind the door.

  1. 47.Where is the gown hook?

Twelve-Minute Transfer

Riders may step from the campus bus onto the city tram within twelve minutes of the bus arrival. The tram agent then punches the bus ticket, and the punched ticket covers the tram fare.

  1. 48.What makes the bus ticket count as tram fare?

Found ID Box

The library keeps found student IDs in a wooden box for seven days. On the eighth day the cards go to campus security, and a note asks owners to bring a second form of ID when they pick one up.

  1. 49.What happens to a found student ID on the eighth day?

Exercise Sheet

The exercise sheet says to begin supine, on the back, with the knees bent. An arrow then shows the student rolling to one side.

  1. 50.On this sheet, what does supine mean?

Warning Slip

After two warnings, a librarian hands a loud table a slip that says the group may stay if voices drop. The slip also prints the room-booking address.

  1. 51.What is the warning slip meant to do?

Twelve-Hour Fast

Patients start a twelve-hour fast at 8 in the evening when the blood draw is at 8 in the morning. Water is allowed during the fast, but coffee is not, even when it is black.

  1. 52.What may the patient drink during this fast?

White Line

When every seat on the campus train is taken, riders may stand only behind the white line near the doors. Standing farther into the aisle is not allowed, because that space is kept clear of the operator's cab.

  1. 53.Where may a rider stand when the seats are full?

Spine Letter

A freshman asked why a spine label starts with Q. The library desk card says Q marks science, and those books are shelved on the second floor, east side.

  1. 54.What can a reader infer about a book whose spine label starts with Q?

Evening Dose

The discharge line says that skipping the evening dose can exacerbate the cough. The nurse wrote 'make worse' just above that word.

  1. 55.In this line, what does exacerbate mean?

Glove Drive

The clinic bulletin asks staff to bring an unopened box of gloves for the student-run clinic downtown. The drive ends Thursday at noon, and opened boxes are turned away.

  1. 56.What is the bulletin asking staff to do?

Drawer Numbers

In the supply drawer, size 1 is a small adhesive bandage and size 3 is a large one. Size 2 is a wrap, not an adhesive bandage, and restocking means matching the number on the box to the number on the bin.

  1. 57.What is size 2?

Signal Delay

The station board shows a twelve-minute delay for the train that serves the medical campus, caused by a signal repair. The same board says the later trains are on time.

  1. 58.What can a rider infer about the trains after the delayed one?

Pencil Loan

The library loans a pencil for the testing room if the student leaves a shoe or a student ID. Pens are not allowed in that room, so the desk does not loan them.

  1. 59.What may a student leave in exchange for a pencil?

Ankle Outlook

The counselor told the student that the prognosis for full recovery of the sprained ankle was good if rest continued. She set that outlook apart from any guess about how the sprain happened.

  1. 60.In this conversation, what does prognosis mean?

Saturday Table

A flyer on the clinic door asks nursing students to sign up for a Saturday blood-pressure table at the campus fair. The signup clipboard is inside the office, and the cutoff is Friday at 4.

  1. 61.What is the purpose of the flyer?

Mask Box

Visitors with a cough take a mask from the box on the clinic counter before they reach the desks. The box is restocked at noon and at 5, and a visitor who finds it empty should tell the clerk.

  1. 62.When is the mask box restocked?

Express Stops

The express bus to the hospital skips the shopping center and the high school. It stops at the library, the campus, and the hospital, while the local bus still serves the skipped stops.

  1. 63.Which stops does the express bus make?

Atlas Rule

The atlas sign says the big book must stay in the reading room and may not be carried to a carrel. Using it at a table inside that room is allowed, and a student who needs a carrel can ask for the smaller desk atlas.

  1. 64.What can a reader infer about opening the big atlas at a reading-room table?

Vaccine Footnote

The vaccine chart marks a live vaccine as contraindicated after a recent high fever. A footnote says the word means the vaccine should not be given in that case.

  1. 65.In this footnote, what does contraindicated mean?

Parade Closing

A clinic posting says the building will close at 2, rather than at 5, on the day of the campus parade. Patients with later appointments are asked to call and move them, and the posting notes that the parade does not pass the clinic door.

  1. 66.Why was the parade-day posting written?

Lid Colors

In the teaching lab, urine samples get a green lid and saliva samples get a white lid. A red lid means the sample is for practice only and must not be sent to the partner clinic.

  1. 67.What does a red lid mean?

Last Campus Train

The last campus train leaves the library station at 11:40. A rider who arrives at 11:47 can still catch the city bus at the same curb, which runs until 12:30, because the train does not wait past 11:40.

  1. 68.What option remains for a rider who reaches the station at 11:47?

Room B Key

Group study room B opens with a key from the library desk, and that key must be back by the end of the hour or the next group cannot get in. Room A uses a keypad code rather than a key.

  1. 69.What happens if the room B key comes back late?

Abdomen Step

The exam checklist says to palpate the abdomen before listening with the stethoscope. A coach wrote 'feel with the hand' beside that first step.

  1. 70.On this checklist, what does palpate mean?

Bench Sign

A sign on the clinic side door says the bench outside is smoke-free, including vapor products, and it points smokers to the far parking row. The sign is not a map of the whole campus.

  1. 71.What is the purpose of the side-door sign?

Arrival Order

The student clinic files charts by the time the patient arrived, not by last name. A patient who arrives at 9:10 is placed after one who arrived at 9:05, even if the later last name comes first in the alphabet.

  1. 72.How are the charts ordered?

River Gate

While the footbridge is under repair, the campus bus adds a stop at the river gate, and that stop will be removed when the bridge reopens on May 3. Until then, riders who used the bridge are told to board at the gate.

  1. 73.What can a rider infer about the river-gate stop after May 3?

Chapter Scan

The library scans a chapter only when the book is not allowed to leave the building. The file goes to the student's campus email by 4 in the afternoon, and personal email addresses are not used.

  1. 74.Where does a completed chapter scan go?

Rash Brochure

A clinic brochure contrasts a chronic rash, one that keeps returning for months, with a rash that appeared yesterday and is already fading. The chronic example is printed inside a box.

  1. 75.In this brochure, what does chronic mean?

Side Tent

During flu season the clinic asks coughing patients to check in at the side tent before they enter the main lobby. The tent has its own clipboard, and patients who are not coughing use the regular desk.

  1. 76.Who checks in at the side tent?

Pill Splitter

The clinic loans a pill splitter for tablets that have a score line and asks for it back the same day. A tablet with no score line should not be split with the tool, and the loan is written on a sticky note rather than in the medical chart.

  1. 77.Which tablets should not be split with the loaned tool?

Headway Sign

A sign above the platform says campus-line trains run every fifteen minutes from 7 in the morning until 7 in the evening, then every thirty minutes. The sign does not describe a separate weekend schedule.

  1. 78.How often do the trains run after 7 in the evening?

Carrel Outlets

Library carrels 4 through 8 have outlets, and carrels 1 through 3 do not. A student who needs to charge a laptop should take a higher-numbered carrel, while the lamp in every carrel is wired to the building rather than to those outlets.

  1. 79.What can a student infer about carrel 2?

Middle Range

The lab comment calls a result ambiguous when it falls in a middle range that neither confirms a condition nor rules it out. The student is told to repeat the test rather than guess.

  1. 80.In this comment, what does ambiguous mean?

Day-Before Call

The clinic phones patients the day before a visit and asks them to press 1 to keep the time or 2 to give the slot back. The message does not ask for a credit-card number.

  1. 81.What is the purpose of the day-before call?

Crutch Fit

Clinic staff set crutch height so two fingers fit between the pad and the underarm. If the crutch touches the underarm they lower it, and they adjust the handgrip only after the height is right.

  1. 82.What do staff do if a crutch touches the underarm?

Folding Bikes

Folding bikes may board the campus train at any hour. Full-size bikes may board only before 7 in the morning and after 7 in the evening, so a rider with a full-size bike at noon has to wait.

  1. 83.When may a full-size bike board?

Hold Cap

The library allows ten holds at a time. A student who already has ten must cancel one before placing another, and staff will not lift the limit for a course reading.

  1. 84.What must a student with ten holds do before placing another?

Cleaning Card

A dental card describes prophylaxis as a cleaning done to prevent disease, not as care for a tooth that already hurts. The card schedules that cleaning twice a year.

  1. 85.On this card, what does prophylaxis mean?

Far-Lot Cart

When the near lot is full, the clinic runs a golf-cart shuttle from the far lot every ten minutes until 4 in the afternoon. Patients who can walk the path are asked to leave cart seats for people who cannot.

  1. 86.What is the main idea of the shuttle notice?

Outer Pocket

Each stool sample leaves the clinic in a sealed bag, with the form in the outer pocket rather than inside beside the container. The lab rejects the bag if that form is missing or wet.

  1. 87.Where does the form belong?

Single Track

For one week the rail line past the campus uses a single track, so trains leave every forty minutes instead of every twenty. The platform announcement says the usual schedule returns next Monday.

  1. 88.What can a rider infer about service next Monday?

Cart Laptops

Laptops on the library cart may be borrowed for three hours. The charger stays at the desk, the laptop must come back even if the battery still has a charge, and overnight loans are not offered.

  1. 89.How long may a student keep a laptop from the cart?

Swollen Ankle

The skills teacher pointed to a swollen ankle and said the edema was the swelling itself, not the bruise beside it. Students were told to press gently and watch for a small dent.

  1. 90.In this lesson, what does edema mean?

Two-Hour Text

Patients may choose a text that arrives two hours before a clinic visit. The text names the room and asks for a reply of YES, and it does not include test results.

  1. 91.Why does the clinic send this text?

Monday Weight

The clinic scale is checked with a 25-pound weight every Monday. If the display is off by more than half a pound, the scale is tagged out and a spare is rolled in, and patients do not step on a tagged scale.

  1. 92.What happens if the display is off by more than half a pound?

First-Row Belts

The small campus bus has seat belts, and the driver will not leave the curb until riders in the first row have buckled. Riders behind that row are asked to buckle, but the bus does not wait for them.

  1. 93.Who must buckle before the bus leaves the curb?

Red Stamp

A book stamped library use only may be read in the building and may not pass the exit gate. The stamp is red and sits on the title page, while a book without that stamp may go out for three weeks.

  1. 94.What can a reader infer about a book with no red stamp on the title page?

Clean Field

The lab guide says an aseptic field is a clean work area kept free of germs. Students who break the field by touching a phone must set it up again.

  1. 95.In this guide, what does aseptic mean?

Last Hour

The campus clinic saves the last hour of each day for walk-in visits, and scheduled visits fill the hours before that. A walk-in patient who arrives earlier is asked to return at the open hour or to take a cancellation if one appears.

  1. 96.What is the main point of this walk-in policy?

Screening Kit

The screening kit includes a card, a brush, and a mailer. The card must dry overnight before it goes into the mailer, because the lab rejects a card that is sent wet.

  1. 97.What must happen before the card is mailed?

Ramp Station

When the station elevator is out of service, the campus train still runs, but riders who cannot use the stairs are told to board at the next station, where a ramp is open. An agent at the first station writes a free transfer for that ride.

  1. 98.What can a rider who cannot use stairs do during the elevator outage?

Birthday Renewal

Library cards expire on the student's birthday. The renewal desk prints a new card the same day if the student brings the old one, and a phone barcode works only until that printed card is ready.

  1. 99.What does the student need for a same-day printed renewal?

Pink Bowl

The bedside list calls the pink bowl an emesis basin and adds 'for vomit' in parentheses. It is not the basin used for washing hands.

  1. 100.What is an emesis basin used for?

Exit Slot

After a visit, the clinic offers a paper form with three questions and a box for comments, and the form goes into a slot by the exit. The form is optional, and the clinician who just left the room does not read it.

  1. 101.What is the purpose of the exit form?

Second Drop

Patients learning the glucose meter prick the side of a fingertip, not the center of the pad. They wipe away the first drop and test the second, and control solution is used on Mondays rather than on every test.

  1. 102.Which drop goes on the test strip?

Cord Pull

The night bus will stop between marked stops if a rider pulls the cord at least one block early. A pull at the corner itself is too late, and the driver continues to the next marked stop.

  1. 103.When must a rider pull the cord to ask for a stop between marks?

Dust Jackets

The library asks readers to leave dust jackets on new books so the shelf looks even. A jacket taken off at a table should be slipped back on before the book is returned, and jackets are not trash.

  1. 104.What should a reader do with a dust jacket removed at a table?

Bite Note

The dental note uses occlusion for the way the upper and lower teeth meet. A student who writes 'bite' in the margin is matching the teacher's definition.

  1. 105.In this note, what does occlusion mean?

Fifteen Minutes

The clinic will still see a patient who is up to fifteen minutes late. At sixteen minutes the time slot is released, and the patient may wait for a no-show or book again, which is the rule printed on the appointment card.

  1. 106.What is the main idea of the late-arrival rule?

Red Bin

Used needles go into the red sharps bin as soon as the cover is off. A needle is not recapped and does not go in the trash, and the bin is changed when it is three-quarters full.

  1. 107.When is the sharps bin changed?

Missed Connection

A rider who leaves the campus bus at 8:12 can reach the rail platform at 8:18. The train doors close at 8:17, so that rider misses this train and can board the one at 8:32.

  1. 108.What can the rider infer about the train whose doors close at 8:17?