How to use the two memory tips without memorizing the mnemonic

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EASTERN · ~14% OF EXAM

In the Five Element generating cycle, which element is the “child” of Wood?

Fire

Water

Metal

Earth

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Wood burns to Fire — Fire is Wood’s child.

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Why generic prep fails in New York

The MBLEx does not test Eastern Medicine. New York does.

About 20 of 140 NYS questions (~14%) pull Eastern content from inside the real exam sections. National prep books skip it. That is how people who already passed the MBLEx walk into the NY boards cold.

Five Element cycles and organ pairs

Meridians and point landmarks

Yin / Yang the way the boards use them

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How to use the two memory tips without memorizing the mnemonic

If the hook does not spit the answer in two seconds, it is a poem. Poems do not pass.

Each item in this bank has two tips on purpose. One is supposed to be verbal (rhyme, alliteration, acronym, etymology). The other is a picture. If you only chant Tip 1, you have one retrieval path. Exam nerves love cutting that path.

A tip has to name the answer. 'Picture waves' does not. 'Picture waves of effleurage on a spastic limb' does. If a hook could fit four options, it is decoration.

Keep the tip, throw the tip, or rewrite it in your notes

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Keep

Throw

2-second spit

You hear 'pisiform' and get pinky/ulnar

You remember a vibe and none of the words

Names the key

Supraglenoid tubercle

'Glenoid' because it was shorter

Does not fight a distractor

Kite for trapezius, diamond for rhomboids

Diamond on both

Cun not inches

SP-6 is point six, 3 cun up

'Six inches up'

Dual code

Sound in Tip 1, picture in Tip 2

Two paraphrases of the same joke

Quiz (tips sit in review)

Flashcards

Origin traps

Tip 1 is sound. Tip 2 is a picture. They should not be the same sentence twice.

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