150 HOAE PSB Practice Test Questions

The Vocabulary questions for the Health Occupations Aptitude Examination are a slightly different format to most standardized tests.  Instead of “What is the definition of …?” the PSB HOAE questions are give a list of four words and you are asked to select the word that is different. Below are practice test questions in both formats.

PSB format vocabulary  – 10 questions
Vocabulary (regular format) – 11 questions
Vocabulary II (regular format) – 10 questions

• Drawing logical conclusions
• Identify the author’s intent to persuade, inform, entertain, or otherwise
• Make predictions
• Analyze and evaluate the use of text structure to solve problems or identify
sequences
• Identify the characteristics of a passage types (narrative, expository, technical,
persuasive).
• Follow directions
• Give the definition of a word from context
• Find specific information from a different types of communication (memo,
posted notice etc.)
• Find given information from a table of contents or index
• Find information from a graphic (chart or similar, graphic representation)
• Identify and use scale, legends on a sample map

Reading Comprehension Practice – 20 questions
Reading Comprehension Practice II – 8 questions

IQ type nonverbal – 6 questions
Analogies Practice – 6 questions

• Understand general human anatomy and physiology
• Biological classification
• Parts of a cell and functions
• Mitosis and Meiosis
• Photosynthesis and respiration
• DNA and RNA, including mutations and cell replication
• Basic Heredity (Mendel and Punnett squares)
• Chromosomes, genes and proteins
• Phenotypes and genotypes
• Basic chemical reactions such as oxidation/reduction and acid/base reactions
• Catalysts
• Chemical bonds
• Types of energy – Kinetic, potential, mechanical

Basic Science – 7 questions
Anatomy and Physiology – 5 questions
Anatomy and Physiology II – 30 questions
Biology – 10 questions\
Scientific Reasoning and Method – 10 questions

Numbers and Operation

• Decimals, fractions and percent
• Calculate percent increase/decrease
• Solve word problems
• Operations with fractions – add, subtract, divide and multiply
• Estimate solutions

Basic Algebra

• Solve equations with 1 variable

Data Interpretation

• Interpret data in graph format
• Measurement
• Convert to and from metric
• Calculate length, weight, height and volume
• Use scale on a map to calculate distances

See PSB HOAE Math