ABPP Practice Exam 2026 – Comprehensive Prep Resource

Think in terms of how the different aphasias affect speaking, understanding, and repeating. In Broca’s aphasia, speech is nonfluent and laborious, but understanding spoken language is relatively preserved. Repetition is affected because producing fluent speech requires intact planning and articulation, but it isn’t the most severely impaired function compared with the production deficit. So when a description emphasizes good comprehension with relatively preserved repetition alongside clear production difficulty, it points to the Broca’s pattern.

Wernicke’s aphasia would show poor comprehension with fluent but nonsensical speech and poor repetition. Global aphasia involves widespread language loss, including comprehension and repetition. Anomic aphasia features fluent speech and good comprehension with relatively preserved repetition, but a prominent naming (word-finding) difficulty.