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Humanitas Trial Tests (2019): Answers and Worked Solutions

Checked against Humanitas's official documents on 18 October 2026. The 2027/28 call is not out yet; figures are from 2026/27.

Key figures

official papers solved: 4
answers, each explained: 142
for Paper 1's 30 questions: 60 min
PDFs linked, each with an archived copy: 5

Humanitas has published four practice papers free on its own site: two versions of Trial Test Paper 1 and a Trial Test Paper 2, all June 2019, and a MEDTEC School sample. Only the MEDTEC sample has answers. Here are IvyTest's answer keys for all four, each answer checked against the paper and explained in a line. Open the official PDF beside this page: the questions and figures are Humanitas's and are not copied here.

In short

Two official papers, Versions A and B, 30 questions in 60 minutes each, five options with one correct.
The trial papers print no answers; the keys below are IvyTest's, worked out question by question. The MEDTEC sample marks its own, and we found one wrong.
About a third of Paper 1's questions are the same in Versions A and B, so the two give you roughly 50 different questions.
The 2019 papers test reasoning only. Today's HUMAT is 60 questions in 120 minutes and adds Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics: use these for Scientific Thinking practice.

The official papers: open them alongside

Humanitas University hosts the papers on hunimed.eu, and we link them rather than copy them. Download the one you want to sit, set a timer (60 minutes for Paper 1), answer on paper, and only then check your answers below. Each paper also has an archived copy on the Internet Archive, in case Humanitas moves or removes it.

Humanitas has already taken down one paper: a trial Scientific Thinking section. It survives only as an archived copy; we have not written solutions for it.

The HUMAT has changed since 2019

In 2019 the test was reasoning only: Scientific Thinking, with mathematical, procedural and visual questions. Since 2026 the HUMAT has 60 questions in 120 minutes, in three timed sections: Scientific Thinking and Academic Literacy, Biology and Chemistry, and Mathematics and Physics, with a quarter-point penalty for a wrong answer and a minimum in every section.

The trial papers are still some of the best Scientific Thinking practice there is, because Humanitas wrote them. For the whole of today's paper, sit the free 2027-format practice test.

Trial Test Paper 1, Version A: answer key and solutions

IvyTest's key, checked against Humanitas's Version A paper. The paper itself prints no answers.

Q	Answer	Why
1	C	Two-axis chart: read revenue on the right axis (millions of €), cars on the left; D reads the wrong axis.
2	B	Halving P and S multiplies the numerator by 1/16 and the denominator by 1/4, so R becomes a quarter: it decreases.
3	B	Change in V is 12, change in I is 3, so R = 4 and g = 1/R = 0.25.
4	A	The two symbols mean +, and adjacent pairs form two-digit numbers: only A adds up (1 + 34 + 51 = 86).
5	A	As decimals: 5 > 0.2 > 0.02 > −0.05 > −0.5 > −0.51.
6	D	Powers, then multiplication, then addition: 2 + 3 × 4 = 14.
7	C	0.3 million is 300,000, so x = z.
8	C	Follow the flow chart for odd and even numbers: 3 leads to pasta; every other option ends somewhere else.
9	D	J falls, so L falls, so M rises, so J falls again: the loop never stops and M keeps increasing.
10	A	One swap each: Luca swaps level 2 and John swaps level 2; B and C need two swaps for John, D the wrong bottom colour.
11	B	No red dots means one pathogen; stunted roots fit Fungus X, Virus T and Bacterium B, and none of the three can be ruled out.
12	D	Owololu, Patel and Smith meet all three conditions; Jones's 10% absence is not under 10%, McKay misses the target.
13	C	Opposite faces swap the reading direction: a real cube reads orange, yellow, red clockwise, but C shows orange, red, yellow.
14	E	The missing piece fills every gap of the red one: seen from the blue side, its teeth below the bump run short, long, short, long, long.
15	D	A rotation rearranges the labels by an even permutation; only D is a single swap (B and C), so only D is the mirror image.
16	A	Only A breaks no rule: B and E have a chain of three squares, C no concentric circles, D an M that touches nothing.
17	E	From inside, the window is mirrored left to right: Alice's bottom-left quarter is Bob's bottom-right, whose only empty shapes are circles.
18	C	Every green or yellow hexagon contains a red shape; each other statement fails on one cell.
19	B	Only B links every person to the right superior, field and assistant.
20	B	Both reflections together are a half-turn about the origin; only the S-shaped curve through the origin is unchanged.
21	A	√S / S = 1/√S, which gets smaller as S grows.
22	C	Multiply both sides by S, then divide by V: S = T/V.
23	A	With x = 10, y = 100, z = 0.01 and t = 0.001, all four inequalities are false.
24	C	Substituting gives $ = 2, £ = 4 and & = 5, so $ + & − £ = 3.
25	C	Brian attacks Cathy, so Anthony attacks Brian; Dylan and Brian then attack Anthony, and Emilia joins Dylan.
26	D	Each lamp that is off must be toggled an odd number of times and each lamp that is on an even number; only D does that.
27	E	Bag 1 holds none of the four presents in E, so that combination is impossible.
28	D	13.75 L per drink rounds up to 14 L in 0.5 L steps; the cheapest mix of bottles totals €97.20.
29	B	Compare the clockwise order round one face: two of the nets fold into the original tetrahedron.
30	B	Only hexagon 3 complies: 7 dots, at most 3 per triangle and at most 1 in each red triangle.

Trial Test Paper 1, Version B: answer key and solutions

IvyTest's key, checked against Humanitas's Version B paper. The paper itself prints no answers.

Q	Answer	Why
1	A	None of the four statements is true: read each trend and note that the axis is in thousands of euros.
2	A	√S / S = 1/√S, which gets smaller as S grows.
3	B	Change in V is 12, change in I is 3, so R = 4 and g = 1/R = 0.25.
4	C	Substitute, then multiply before adding: 1 + 12 − 3 = 10.
5	A	As decimals: 5 > 0.2 > 0.02 > −0.05 > −0.5 > −0.51.
6	D	Powers, then multiplication, then addition: 2 + 3 × 4 = 14.
7	C	0.3 million is 300,000, so x = z.
8	D	Only naive and tycoon share a letter but then share nothing once the first and last letters are dropped, giving WOW.
9	D	J falls, so L falls, so M rises, so J falls again: M keeps increasing and K never changes.
10	E	With at most two swaps per person, E's left tower differs from both of Luca's in three levels and cannot be John's.
11	D	Ellen must sit between Barbara and David, which leaves Barbara, Ellen, David, Alan, Charles: Alan is next to David.
12	C	Only Taylor and Williams meet the English, experience and late-task rules; each of the others fails one.
13	E	Blue and orange are opposite faces, and two opposite faces can never be seen together.
14	C	The trapezoid's slanted sides match the two triangles' hypotenuses, and the three pieces make a rectangle.
15	D	A mirror reverses the arrow, the order of the shapes and each shape left to right, without turning any upside down: only D.
16	A	Only A breaks no rule: B and E have a chain of three squares, C no concentric circles, D an M that touches nothing.
17	E	From inside, the window is mirrored left to right but not up and down: the black arrow moves to the bottom right.
18	D	Only D gets every detail right: the right-angled triangle on the right, the bigger circle on the left, the bigger downward arrow.
19	B	Only B groups food, threat, reproduction and the rabbit's own traits correctly.
20	B	Slope = −(y-intercept) ÷ (x-intercept), which gives +2 only for B.
21	B	X = Y + Z with Z fixed, so X rises by exactly as much as Y.
22	C	z = 1 gives y = 1, then x = −1 (it must be negative), so 2t + 1 = −1 and t = −1.
23	E	Statements 2 and 4 are true; 1, 3 and 5 are false.
24	B	Adding the first and third equations gives 2$ = 2, so $ = 1.
25	D	Apply Mike's rules, then Mia's, in order: the list ends as skin, 5, 4, 5, 5, heart.
26	D	Each lamp that is off must be toggled an odd number of times and each lamp that is on an even number; only D does that.
27	E	Bag 1 holds none of the four presents in E, so that combination is impossible.
28	D	13.75 L per drink rounds up to 14 L in 0.5 L steps; the cheapest mix of bottles totals €97.20.
29	B	Compare the clockwise order round one face: two of the nets fold into the original tetrahedron.
30	C	Only dolls 3 and 4 pass every rule; doll 2, for example, has 8 shapes where at most 7 are allowed.

Trial Test Paper 2 (reading): answer key and solutions

Humanitas's second trial paper, also dated June 2019, is all reading: four passages and 22 questions, on measles vaccination, how young reef fish find their way home, hospital design for patients with dementia, and a stop-smoking service in pharmacies. The first part has five options, the second and third four, and the fourth is a matching task: each of five paragraphs goes with one of eight statements, two of which are not used. It is good practice for today's Academic Literacy.

The paper does not say which question goes with which paragraph in Part 4; we have taken questions 18 to 22 as paragraphs 1 to 5. Reading answers turn on wording, so each reason below points to the part of the passage that decides it.

IvyTest's key, worked out twice, independently, from Humanitas's Trial Test Paper 2. The paper prints no answers.

Q	Answer	Why
1	C	One dose protects most children; reviews of outbreaks led to a second dose, which brings protection close to its highest figure. D pairs the change with the wrong percentage.
2	A	The paragraph sets the claim of lifelong protection against evidence that vaccine immunity fades in a share of people.
3	C	The phrase points back to vaccine failure caused by immunity fading over time.
4	A	When the mother's antibodies interfere, infants vaccinated early may not build lasting protection; the other options misread or reverse the text.
5	B	The passage names this species-dependent time at sea directly; the other options are other terms from the passage.
6	B	Several kinds of study confirmed return to the birth reef; drift on currents and storms was only the earlier assumption.
7	A	The only percentage of juveniles traced to their reef comes from the genetic method.
8	B	Returning home needs larvae to remember cues met just after hatching, before they drift away.
9	C	The open question is proof that the fish use remembered home-reef smells, as salmon do: recalling sensory cues.
10	D	Their risk of falling is given as a multiple of other inpatients' risk.
11	A	Most earlier studies looked at satisfaction, sleep, privacy and dignity: how patients see their surroundings.
12	A	The word answers 'some studies' earlier in the sentence, so it means other studies.
13	B	Single-room patients came mostly from their own homes, so admissions from care homes were concentrated in the wards.
14	B	The difference just reported is the longer stay in single rooms.
15	A	Similar fall rates are put down to nurses' training in falls-risk tools.
16	A	The study measured clinical figures only; the writer says patients' own experience of single rooms could have been explored.
17	C	Age was checked as a confounding factor, yet its link with length of stay stays unexplained and needs study.
18	H	Paragraph 1: few people use the pharmacy service despite the evidence, and why.
19	B	Paragraph 2 sets the first conversation with a smoker against the formal consultation.
20	E	Paragraph 3: cost, venue and timing kept staff from training.
21	A	Paragraph 4 makes the training easier to attend: one shorter session, on Sunday or on site.
22	G	Paragraph 5 describes how the service was assessed with simulated clients.

MEDTEC School sample: answers and solutions

The MEDTEC School sample is an older admission test, from before the HUMAT: 60 questions in five sections, each numbered from 1, with five options and a row for leaving the question out. Section 1 is Mathematics (20 questions), Section 2 Text comprehension and critical reasoning, Section 3 Chemistry and physics, Section 4 Biology and Section 5 Technical and scientific knowledge (10 each). It prints no time limit or scoring.

This paper does print its key: the correct answer is the green letter, and in every question it is option A, listed first. Cover the letters, or the colour gives it away. We have worked every question and agree with the key on 59 of the 60. On Section 3's nickel-cadmium battery question the right answer is E, not A, for the reason in the table.

Q 1.1 is Section 1, question 1. Answers are Humanitas's green key, checked question by question by IvyTest; the one place we differ is marked.

Q	Answer	Why
1.1	A	Only one choice of three listed values multiplies to the target; add those three.
1.2	A	Dividing by four takes two off the power of two; the square root then halves the exponent.
1.3	A	Turn both success rates into numbers of shots made; the difference is what was scored in the extra attempts.
1.4	A	A square is never negative, so multiplying both sides by it keeps the inequality; the others fail for some signs.
1.5	A	Remainder theorem: the remainder is the polynomial's value at the divisor's root.
1.6	A	Everything on one side factors as (x − 3)(x² + 1); the second factor is always positive, so only x > 3 works.
1.7	A	√5 ≈ 2.24 and the logarithm ≈ 2.60, which places the decimal between them.
1.8	A	The cubic is positive only on (−1, 0) and beyond 1; the exponential crosses it twice in (−1, 0) and stays above it for x > 1.
1.9	A	The expression under the root must be ≥ 0; a sign chart over the roots −3, 0 and 2 gives two intervals.
1.10	A	Same material, so weight follows volume; the hollow takes 1/27 of the cube's volume.
1.11	A	Reflecting in the horizontal line y = 4 sends y to 8 − y; substitute and simplify.
1.12	A	Write the height with tan 30° from one point and tan 60° from the other: the nearer distance is a third of the farther.
1.13	A	The radius squared is the squared distance from the centre to the given point; expand (x − h)² + (y − k)² = r².
1.14	A	The negation of 'every student has at least 3' is 'at least one student has 2 or fewer'.
1.15	A	The truthful friend says it truly and the liar falsely; no other statement fits both speakers.
1.16	A	Only one listed date plus nine days stays in the same month; 35 days on is the same weekday.
1.17	A	Weighted mean: 61 wrong answers in total over 25 students.
1.18	A	Turn the percentages into head counts: 15 men at or below 115 are three quarters of the 20 women.
1.19	A	66 possible pairs from twelve dancers; count girl–girl, girl–boy and boy–boy pairs over that total.
1.20	A	Four of the six faces count, so each roll succeeds with probability 2/3; independent rolls multiply.
2.1	A	The argument needs people to recall a product they have not heard of; that hidden assumption is required.
2.2	A	The passage is about a worldwide change in cities driven by speed and movement; the others add causes or narrow it.
2.3	A	Predicting a local factory everywhere despite low demand today only works if demand grows.
2.4	A	Against a wave of closures, converting the plant is the alternative to shutting it (B's saving is 500 million, not 400).
2.5	A	Only one option links controlling gossip to productivity, the harm the passage names.
2.6	A	Every other option adds a cause, a proportion or a claim about other countries that the text never makes.
2.7	A	The conclusion is that firms should invest in their people; the others are premises or distortions.
2.8	A	Edward sits with Charles and Alice is in the next car; Sarah's car then leaves Rachel only one.
2.9	A	Better absorption of nutrients explains more weight from the same food despite more activity.
2.10	A	The range shrinks when food is plentiful, which ties the behaviour to scarce prey.
3.1	A	Fluorine and chlorine are gases, bromine a liquid and iodine a solid at room temperature.
3.2	A	The –OH is on a carbon bonded to only one other carbon; the others are secondary, an ether, a ketone and an aldehyde.
3.3	E (key: A)	Cadmium is oxidised (0 → +2), but its product, Cd(OH)₂, is insoluble and stays on the electrode, so the electrode gains mass: E. Humanitas's key gives A, which would need the cadmium to dissolve.
3.4	A	The proton acceptors are fluoride going forward and the hydrogen sulfide ion in reverse.
3.5	A	Dilution keeps the moles: three times the volume, a third of the molarity.
3.6	A	From P = V²/R, resistance is voltage squared over power.
3.7	A	Continuity: area × speed stays constant, so half the area means twice the speed.
3.8	A	At the point of slipping, tan α equals the static friction coefficient; tan α = 1 gives 45°.
3.9	A	The energy spreads over a growing circle, so amplitude goes as 1/√r: four times the distance halves it.
3.10	A	At constant pressure volume follows absolute temperature: 313/293 ≈ 1.07.
4.1	A	Mendel's laws are the general rules for how genes are passed on (linked genes and mitochondrial inheritance are exceptions).
4.2	A	Phagocytosis is a cell engulfing solid material into a membrane vesicle.
4.3	A	After a meal blood glucose rises and the pancreas's beta cells release insulin.
4.4	A	Afferent fibres carry signals towards the central nervous system: sensory ('sensitive' in the paper); motor ones are efferent.
4.5	A	Most human cells are about 5 to 100 µm across, so micrometres are the natural unit.
4.6	A	Plants fix carbon dioxide by photosynthesis; animals cannot.
4.7	A	An allele is one version of a gene at a given locus, not necessarily a mutant one.
4.8	A	Humans, like almost all mammals, have seven cervical vertebrae.
4.9	A	Sister chromatids separate at anaphase (of mitosis, or of meiosis II).
4.10	A	E. coli is a prokaryote: no membrane-bound nucleus; the others are eukaryotic cells.
5.1	A	Mammary glands and suckling define mammals, egg-laying monotremes included; size, placenta, habitat and diet vary.
5.2	A	A capacitor stores separated charge on its plates; it does not store current.
5.3	A	Blood pressure is measured in millimetres of mercury.
5.4	A	Lamarck proposed that traits gained by use and disuse are inherited; natural selection is Darwin's.
5.5	A	X-rays are high-energy photons: electromagnetic radiation, not a particle beam.
5.6	A	Sealed, sterilised broths stayed sterile: microbes come only from microbes.
5.7	A	Connected vessels level out at the same height; only narrow tubes differ, through capillarity.
5.8	A	Viruses multiply only inside living cells, so a cell-free nutrient broth cannot grow them.
5.9	A	Linnaeus's binomial names give each organism its genus and species.
5.10	A	Electrolysis splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, two volumes to one.

Version A or Version B?

Do both. Eleven questions are the same in the two papers: questions 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 16, 26, 27, 28 and 29 have the same number in both, and A's question 21 is B's question 2. The towers, cube and window questions are the same kind in both but different questions, and the other questions are different altogether, so the two papers together give you about 50 different questions.

Sit one paper under time, mark it, work through every miss with the solutions above, then sit the other a few days later and skip nothing, even the questions you recognise.

Questions

Are there official HUMAT past papers?

Humanitas has published trial papers, not past exams: Trial Test Paper 1 in two versions (June 2019), a Trial Test Paper 2 (June 2019, all reading) and a MEDTEC School sample, all free as PDFs on hunimed.eu. They predate the current format, which since 2026 also tests Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics.

Where can I find the Humanitas trial test answers?

Humanitas does not publish them for the trial papers. This page gives IvyTest's answer keys for both versions of Trial Test Paper 1 and for Trial Test Paper 2, each answer checked against the paper and explained.

Is the 2019 trial test still useful for 2027?

Yes, for Scientific Thinking: Humanitas wrote it, and the reasoning it tests is still in the paper. It does not cover Academic Literacy, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics or Physics, so practise those with a paper in today's format.

What's the difference between Humanitas Trial Test Version A and B?

Both have 30 questions in 60 minutes. Eleven questions are shared, the rest are different, so the two together give you about 50 different questions.

What if a Humanitas PDF link stops working?

Use the archived copy next to it: each paper was saved by the Internet Archive while Humanitas hosted it. The trial Scientific Thinking section is already gone from hunimed.eu and is linked only that way.

Official sources

Every figure on this page was read on the source itself on the date above. (18 October 2026)

Practise in the real format

The free practice paper has 60 questions in the current three-section format, every answer explained. When you want more, the IvyTest Humanitas package adds a full simulator, the study guide and lessons.

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