2 Months Before the Board Exam.
60 days before the board is the most critical period of the review. By this
time, you should have finished reading books and have familiarized yourself
with the different types of problems and formulas in Mathematics including
GEAS, Electronics and Communications. The Refresher Course, most
probably, have just started at this point. You must have accomplished at this
point the following:
For Math, you can answer the basic problems easily; and for the hard
ones, you can solve it by just recalling the necessary formula and
constants from your notes, or at the very least, understands how it is
solved, step-by-step, while looking from some sample problems on
your notes.
For Electronics, you can answer problems requiring basic equations
easily; and for the hard ones, you know where from your notes/books
you can find the necessary formulas to solve it. But more importantly,
you must fully understand the basics of electronics - I'm pertaining to
the WHY's and HOW's of electronics and not the WHAT's. For
example, "How does an electron flow inside a BJT during normal
operation?", then a follow-up question would be "Why does an
electron flows that way?".
For Communications, you must know what and how formulas and
constants are used in different types of problems. And like
Electronics, you must understand the important principles and
concepts, and at least, be able explain it to yourself. For example,
"How does an electromagnetic wave propagates in different mediums
and how does it differs from longitudinal waves such us a sound
wave?".
The 60 Days Review Program.
If you are at least 70% confident to say that you have achieved the above
requirements prior to starting this remaining 60 days review program, then
you can maximize the benefits of the following guidelines on how to spend
the remaining days of your review.
In choosing the schedule for your refresher course, I suggest that you
choose the weekend section (Saturadays and Sundays) especially if you are
far from your review center, so that you will have a longer time reviewing on
your own.
Since at this point you already understood most of the basic principles (the
answer to the WHY's and HOW's) in Electronics and Communications, and
you at least know what and how formulas and constants are used in solving
different types of problems in Math, Electronics and Communications, you
just need one more step before you can confidently face the Licensure Exam
- and that is to MEMORIZE.
MEMORIZED PRINCIPLES and FORMULAs
Yes, for the remaining 60 days, the only task left to you is to memorize
everything that could possibly help you on the day of the exam. There are 2
sets of information that you need to memorize: the first is a set of Question-
Answer pairs and the second set includes all of the formulas, constants,
definitions, tables, laws, standards, dates, and a lot more.
For the second set, here is my suggestion: For formulas, write all important
formulas in a clean sheet of bond paper, one page: one topic. For example,
one page of formulas related to Acoustics, 1 page for Solid Geometry, etc.
Write only the formulas that you understand how it is used in a problem. As
much as possible, avoid including formulas which could be easily derived
from other formulas. Box each formula. But please, avoid the temptation to
include all formulas you find in different reviewers. Include only the formulas
you used in solving problems for the first 2 months of your review.
For constants, tables, standards, laws, just have a list of what pages of the
books you can find these information. Or if possible, you may photocopy
those pages. Don't waste your time rewriting all of them.
Allotted Time. The 60th day before the exam is the ideal time to create your
own compilation of formulas. Why? Because at this point, you encountered
most of the different types of problems, and you know which formulas are
worth memorizing. Spend 1-2 days preparing this compilation. Also, for 1-2
hours daily, memorize tables, constants, laws, standards and some
formulas.
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