About this event
Nutrition is a solo written test for the Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate divisions. The test plan covers macronutrients, vitamins and minerals, water and electrolyte balance, nutrition through the life span, digestion and metabolism, cultural food patterns, food-related illness and allergies, and, the largest section at 20 percent, medical nutrition therapy for diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, gastrointestinal disease, cancer and clients with special needs. Questions are written from Nutrition and Diet Therapy (Roth) and Nutrition and Wellness for Life (West). The event is one round of 50 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes with an essay tiebreaker.
Test day
What to expect
60 minutes, 50 questions
You have 60 minutes for 50 questions written from the event's published test plan. Official format: 50-question test, 60 minutes, plus an essay tiebreaker.
Written from the test plan
Questions follow the event's published test plan, section by section, and are written from the listed reference texts. Practice questions here are drawn in the same proportions.
How you advance
How many advance from regionals to states and on to the International Leadership Conference (ILC) depends on your association's rules. Study the official test plan: it lists each section and its share of the test.
What's on the test
Study resources
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