Practise Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ (CHI™) Examination with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI) · 2023 CHI™ Exam Specifications, effective October 1, 2023, based on the 2022 Job Task Analysis; identified by CCHI as the current outline as of October 19, 2026. The assigned workbook label maps to CCHI’s language-specific bilingual performance examinations in Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish. CoreCHI™ is the separate prerequisite knowledge examination.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- CCHI — Preparing
- CCHI — CHI™ Exam Specifications
- CCHI Candidate’s Examination Handbook — Updated October 2024
- CCHI — CHI™ Exam
- CCHI — CHI™ Exam Score
- NCIHC — National Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Health Care
- NCIHC — The Terminology of Health Care Interpreting, Revised August 2008
- NCIHC — Sight Translation and Written Translation: Guidelines for Healthcare Interpreters
- NCIHC — Partnering with an Interpreter
- What’s in a Word? A Guide to Understanding Interpreting and Translation in Health Care
- NIDCD — Aphasia
- NIDCD — Dysarthria
- National Cancer Institute — Definition of Tumor
- National Cancer Institute — Definition of Biopsy
Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ (CHI™) Examination
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During consecutive interpreting, a patient says, “I no longer feel sick to my stomach, but I still get dizzy when I stand up.” Which rendering preserves the complete meaning?
Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ (CHI™) Examination
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Interpret Consecutively
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