HESI A2 Reading Exam | Questions & Answers 2026/2027 | 100% Verified Solutions | A+ Graded | Full Study Material

HESI A2 Reading Exam | Questions & Answers 2026/2027 | 100% Verified Solutions | A+ Graded | Full Study Material Q: "About the author" Answer -Asks about author's attitudes, thoughts, and opinions -Pay attention to context clues -Answer will not be displayed explicitly but conveyed in the overall message Q: "Passage facts" Answer -Distinguish between facts and opinions -Identify information supplied by author Q: "Additional information" Answer -Look for what kind of information could be added or missing from passage -Asks what direction the passage was going -Asks what statement could be added to strengthen/weaken the author's statement -Provide fill in the blank option to include a statement that is missing (but fits) with the passage Q: Strategies Answer -Read answers first, then the passage -Use process of elimination -Avoid negative statements Q: Main idea Answer -The purpose behind why a writer would choose to write a book, article, story, etc. -What the author is asserting about a specific issue Q: Topic Answer Person, place, thing, or issue Q: Theme Answer Idea or concept that the author refers back to frequently Q: Major indicators of the main idea of a paragraph Answer -It is a general idea and applies to more specific ideas in the passage -It asserts a specific viewpoint that the author supports; "takes a stand" Q: Topic sentence Answer -Introduces main idea to the reader -Indicates the topic and writer's perspective Q: Summary sentence Answer -Sums up the passage, restates the main idea and author's key evidence -Usually at the end Q: Implied main idea Answer -Main idea not explicitly stated -Need to look at author's word choice, tone, and content of passage Q: Supporting details Answer Provide support for the author's main idea Q: Supporting detail signal words Answer - For example - Specifically - In addition - Furthermore - For instance - Others - In particular - Some Q: Facts Answer Statement or thought that can be proven to be true Q: Opinion Answer Assumption not based in fact and cannot be proven to be true Q: Narrative writing Answer Tells a story (novel, short story, play) Q: Expository writing Answer Informs people (newspaper and magazine articles) Q: Technical writing Answer Explains something (product manual, directions) Q: Persuasive writing Answer Tried to convince the reader of something (opinion column on a blog) Q: Primary source Answer Unaltered piece of writing that was composed during the time when the events being described took place Q: Secondary source Answer Might address same topic but provides extra commentary or analysis Q: Text structure Answer Distinct patterns that use logical relationships between ideas to improve the readability and coherence of a text Q: Problem-solution Answer The author presents a problem and then discusses a solution Q: Comparison-contrast Answer The author presents two situations and then discusses the similarities and differences Q: Cause-effect Answer The author presents an action and then discusses the resulting effects Q: Descriptive Answer An idea, object, person, or other item is described in detail Q: Vocabulary Answer Use context to figure out the word's meaning Q: Situational context Answer Context presented by the setting or circumstances in which a word or phrase occurs Sentence context Answer Occurs within specific sentence that contains the vocabulary word 4 clues to help you understand context Answer Restatement, positive/negative clues, contrast clues, specific detail clues Restatement Answer Occur when the definition of the word is clearly stated in the sentence Positive/negative clues Answer Can tell whether a word has a positive or negative meaning Contrast clues Answer Include opposite meaning of a word Specific detail clues Answer Provide a precise detail that can help you understand the meaning of the word Denotation Answer - Aka definition - A word has two meanings and context must be used to determine which is correct Connotations Answer Implications Figurative language Answer Use of a word to imply something other than the word's literal definition Root Answer - Building blocks of all words - Can come from Greek/Latin roots (e.g. pre-NAT-al) Prefixes Answer Syllables added to the beginning of a word Suffixes Syllables added to the end of the word ast(er) Star (asteroid, astronomy) audi Hear (audience, audible) auto Self (automatic, autograph) bene Good (beneficent, benign) bio Life (biology, biorhythm) cap Take (capture) ced Yield (secede) chrono Time (chronometer, chronic) corp Body (corporeal) crac or crat Rule (autocrat) demo People (democracy) dict Say (dictionary, dictation) duc Lead or make (ductile, produce) gen Give birth (generation, genetics) geo Earth (geography, geometry) grad Step (graduate) graph Write (graphical, autograph) ject Throw (eject) jur or jus Law (justice, jurisdiction) log or logue Thought (logic, logarithm) luc Light (lucidity) man Hand (manual) mand Order (remand) mis Send (transmission) mono One (monotone) omni All (omnivore) path Feel (pathology) phil Love (philanthropy) phon Sound (phonograph) port Carry (export) qui Rest (quiet) scrib or script Write (scribe, transcript) sense or sent Feel (sentiment) tele Far away (telephone) terr Earth (terrace) uni single (unicode) vac empty (vacant) vid see (video) vis see (vision) a- / an- not, without; to, towards; of, completely (athiest) ante- before, preceding (antecedent) anti- opposing, against (antibiotic) com- (also co-, col-, con-, cor-) with, jointly, completely (combat) dis- (also di-) negation, removal (disadvantage) en- (also em-) put into or on; bring into the condition of; intensify (engulf) hypo- under (hypoglycemic) in- (also il-, im-, ir-) not, without; in, into, towards, inside (infertile) intra- inside, within (intravenous) out- surpassing, exceeding; external, away from (outperform) over- excessively, completely; upper, outer, over, above (overconfident) pre- before (precondition) re- again (reapply) semi- half, partly (semicircle) syn- (also sym-) in union, acting together (synthesis) trans- across, beyond (transatlantic) trans- into a different state (translate) under- beneath, below (underarm) under- not enough (underdeveloped)