Acupoints

Acupoint study hits you with sheer volume first. You learn locations, categories and needling cautions one by one, and the earlier ones start to fade. As the exam gets closer, so does the worry about how far you need to go.

If you give every point the same depth, you run out of time for the points you really must tell apart. And each point has its own part that makes a good exam question: for some it is the location, for others the category, for others telling it from a look-alike point.

So we set an order.

• The Essential 100 and 17 extra points: the points this site's mock-exam questions and study materials come back to again and again. Each page sets out what matters for that point and how it is asked, by question type, and shows one mock-exam question. A location figure shows the spot.
• Points that are easier to learn in a table, such as the Five Shu points: gathered on the category table pages.
• The other ~290 points: short cards with the name, categories, location and key use.

How to study them:

1. Finish the Essential 100 one channel at a time. Try each page's question to see how the point is asked.
2. Learn the categories in one go with the category tables.
3. Finally, run through the card points' locations and categories. Card points can appear on the exam too.

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