PAST BOARD QUESTIONS

For me, this is the top priority or the most “must have” material of all. It
gives you a hint on what the board exam looks like. You can study the
questions given and use this information to optimize your review. For
example, have you noticed the frequency of “elements” or “terminology”
question compared to computation? Yes “terms” comprises of roughly 70%
of board exam questions. Use this information to adjust your review. Don’t
just focus on computations.

Another thing you could notice is that the computations are fairly simple.
What does this tell you? Simple, don’t focus your time to computational
problem questions whose solution takes two page of paper. Focus on simple
ones. I’m not saying that you must not learn how to solve difficult, long
solution computations; I said FOCUS or put PRIORITY to simple ones
because they have the greatest chance of appearing in the actual board.

It’s now up to you to take note of what you can see from the line of
questioning in the board exam. The point I’m trying to make is to prioritize
having a copy of board exam questions. There are books that put these at the
end portion.