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(More customer reviews)This book provides an excellent review for the national exam. In particular, it gives a good sense of what questions on the exam are like. For instance, my school had not provided much detailed instruction on Chinese medicine, and I was surprised at how many questions there were on Chinese medicine in this book; but as a result, I was very prepared for similar questions on the exam.
There are many quirks to this book though. The first one I noticed is that it is very disorganized. There is almost no way to study for specific topics; like the actual exam, the questions jump all over the place, though some are clustered. Further, the answers are right there with the questions, instead of being in an answer key elsewhere, so while studying I had to go down the list of questions with a piece of paper blocking my view to keep myself from seeing the answer.
There are some things in the book which I think are totally irrelevant to the national exam, for instance a listing of herbs and what they're good for, and there was one question about the Eight Extraordinary Meridians in chinese medicine which was kind of weird considering that it's an advanced topic even for acupuncturists.
I would say that 90% of this book is very useful. The caveat is the disorganization, which is probably a result of the way the book is put together: These are actual NCE questions that previous test-takers have sent in, and their memory for exact wording and what were all of the choices for answers wasn't totally accurate. However, the questions themselves, from my experience with the test, are right on when it comes to showing what the NCE tests for. Indeed, some of the questions on the actual test were ones I wouldn't have gotten because I simply wouldn't have anticipated them, but this book already answered it for me. (For instance: What acupuncture point is most useful in treating headaches? Answer: LI 4)
I used this to review for my exam and I passed with flying colors. I also studied "Review for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Certification" and a book on muscles/bones, and had a medical dictionary as reference.
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