United States · Licensing examA 22-year-old soccer player felt a pop in the knee while cutting to the side, and the knee swelled within a few hours. Which special test is most useful for checking the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)?
20 practice questions in the style of the exam.
How to use these 20 questions
Aim for 15 right out of 20. That’s 75%, our own target, not an FSBPT pass mark: the real NPTE gives a scaled score from 200 to 800, and 600 passes. If an answer doesn’t click, ask the tutor to explain it another way. Anything you miss comes back at the end.
The mix follows the 2024 outline. The musculoskeletal and neuromuscular systems get five questions each, the heart and lungs get three, and the rest cover the other body systems, devices and modalities, and safety and research. We wrote them at PT level, but most of this content is on the PTA outline too.
Where can you find more free NPTE practice questions?
FSBPT writes the real NPTE, and its free demo exam has 30 sample questions on the real exam screens, including a scenario set for each level, and the Candidate Handbook has more samples. For a full-length timed exam, FSBPT sells its Practice Exam and Assessment Tool (PEAT). Our 20 aren’t from FSBPT, so treat them as practice on the content, not a preview of real items.
Sources: FSBPT and 2 more. Checked October 2026.
- FSBPT: 2024 NPTE-PT Test Content Outline (PDF) ↗
- FSBPT: 2024 NPTE-PTA Test Content Outline (PDF) ↗
- FSBPT: NPTE Demo Exam ↗
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