I have gone back and looked again at some past test examples and am learning that I cannot count on phraseology of the exams. They don`t coincide with the sections in the reading material. You can never go to a section and expect to get the whole answer. It is probably spread over multiple parts of the book. You won`t be able to find what you are looking for by looking at the book index. Phrases from the questions are not in the index. A short paragraph in the book may not be represented in the index. Knowing related words and looking in those places will help but that is not the entire story. You have to go fishing. Fishing takes patients. If a term is not intuitively understood by reading the question you may not have the intuitive notion of how to start your search. There is no search engine where you are going. Depth-first, breadth-first, sequential search, binary search are your tools now. Choose wisely you me be at it for a while. I have heard that amassing knowledge is a big part of this PhD thing. I think that this is what they mean. It has nothing to do with how smart you are or how clever. It has every thing to do with how resourceful and lucky. God needs to be whispering to you about where to look. It is unfair but that is how it is. You have to get into the head of the test writer. Start now it will take a long time. If you choose another source rather than the reading list don`t get fooled by a term that is similar but different. Remember, a definition of deadlock has been on every test I have taken and all correct answers where context sensitive. Also, remember that a colloquial meaning, possibly of your university only, may be the one the test writer wants like "Equivalence Term Testing". Not even the authors of the literature on the reading list new what that one was. Start now.