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# HESI A2 (Version 2) – Practice Exam
## Random Length: 97 Questions
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## Section 1: Grammar (Questions 1–15)
**1.** Which sentence is grammatically correct?
A) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic.
B) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic?
C) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic!
D) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic;
💡 RATIONALE – A declarative sentence ends with a period.
✔️ ANSWER – A) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic.
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**2.** Select the correct word: "The medication will ______ the patient's heart rate."
A) effect
B) affect
C) impacting
D) effected
,💡 RATIONALE – "Affect" is a verb meaning to influence.
✔️ ANSWER – B) affect
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**3.** Which sentence uses correct subject-verb agreement?
A) The group of students are studying.
B) The group of students is studying.
C) The group of students were studying.
D) The group of students have studying.
💡 RATIONALE – Collective noun "group" is singular → "is."
✔️ ANSWER – B) The group of students is studying.
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**4.** Which word is an adverb? "The patient breathed deeply during the examination."
A) Patient
B) Breathed
C) Deeply
D) Examination
💡 RATIONALE – "Deeply" modifies the verb "breathed."
✔️ ANSWER – C) Deeply
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**5.** Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.
,A) "Where is the bathroom?" asked the patient.
B) "Where is the bathroom"? asked the patient.
C) "Where is the bathroom," asked the patient.
D) "Where is the bathroom." asked the patient.
💡 RATIONALE – Question mark inside closing quotation marks.
✔️ ANSWER – A) "Where is the bathroom?" asked the patient.
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**6.** Which sentence is in passive voice?
A) The nurse started the IV.
B) The IV was started by the nurse.
C) Starting the IV is easy.
D) The nurse will start the IV.
💡 RATIONALE – Passive voice: subject receives action ("was started").
✔️ ANSWER – B) The IV was started by the nurse.
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**7.** Identify the complete subject: "The tall nurse with glasses works in the ICU."
A) Nurse
B) Tall nurse
C) The tall nurse with glasses
D) Works in the ICU
💡 RATIONALE – Complete subject includes all modifiers.
, ✔️ ANSWER – C) The tall nurse with glasses
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**8.** Which sentence is correct?
A) There are less patients on the unit today.
B) There are fewer patients on the unit today.
C) There is less patients on the unit today.
D) There is fewer patients on the unit today.
💡 RATIONALE – "Fewer" for countable nouns (patients).
✔️ ANSWER – B) There are fewer patients on the unit today.
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**9.** Which word is spelled correctly?
A) Neccessary
B) Necessary
C) Necesary
D) Necassary
💡 RATIONALE – Necessary: one C, two S's.
✔️ ANSWER – B) Necessary
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**10.** Which sentence uses the correct pronoun?
A) Between you and I, the patient is stable.
# HESI A2 (Version 2) – Practice Exam
## Random Length: 97 Questions
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## Section 1: Grammar (Questions 1–15)
**1.** Which sentence is grammatically correct?
A) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic.
B) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic?
C) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic!
D) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic;
💡 RATIONALE – A declarative sentence ends with a period.
✔️ ANSWER – A) The nurse and the patient went to the clinic.
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**2.** Select the correct word: "The medication will ______ the patient's heart rate."
A) effect
B) affect
C) impacting
D) effected
,💡 RATIONALE – "Affect" is a verb meaning to influence.
✔️ ANSWER – B) affect
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**3.** Which sentence uses correct subject-verb agreement?
A) The group of students are studying.
B) The group of students is studying.
C) The group of students were studying.
D) The group of students have studying.
💡 RATIONALE – Collective noun "group" is singular → "is."
✔️ ANSWER – B) The group of students is studying.
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**4.** Which word is an adverb? "The patient breathed deeply during the examination."
A) Patient
B) Breathed
C) Deeply
D) Examination
💡 RATIONALE – "Deeply" modifies the verb "breathed."
✔️ ANSWER – C) Deeply
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**5.** Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.
,A) "Where is the bathroom?" asked the patient.
B) "Where is the bathroom"? asked the patient.
C) "Where is the bathroom," asked the patient.
D) "Where is the bathroom." asked the patient.
💡 RATIONALE – Question mark inside closing quotation marks.
✔️ ANSWER – A) "Where is the bathroom?" asked the patient.
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**6.** Which sentence is in passive voice?
A) The nurse started the IV.
B) The IV was started by the nurse.
C) Starting the IV is easy.
D) The nurse will start the IV.
💡 RATIONALE – Passive voice: subject receives action ("was started").
✔️ ANSWER – B) The IV was started by the nurse.
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**7.** Identify the complete subject: "The tall nurse with glasses works in the ICU."
A) Nurse
B) Tall nurse
C) The tall nurse with glasses
D) Works in the ICU
💡 RATIONALE – Complete subject includes all modifiers.
, ✔️ ANSWER – C) The tall nurse with glasses
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**8.** Which sentence is correct?
A) There are less patients on the unit today.
B) There are fewer patients on the unit today.
C) There is less patients on the unit today.
D) There is fewer patients on the unit today.
💡 RATIONALE – "Fewer" for countable nouns (patients).
✔️ ANSWER – B) There are fewer patients on the unit today.
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**9.** Which word is spelled correctly?
A) Neccessary
B) Necessary
C) Necesary
D) Necassary
💡 RATIONALE – Necessary: one C, two S's.
✔️ ANSWER – B) Necessary
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**10.** Which sentence uses the correct pronoun?
A) Between you and I, the patient is stable.
