I am studying for the Foreign Service Officer Exam...any suggestions on the best way to prepare?

Actually, you might want to concentrate on English grammer points as much as anything else. You can never really be sure exactly what will pop up, but English grammer definitely will. General background modern history won't hurt, certainly. but, there are questions from a very wide variety of subject matter, including managerial questions. American cultural questions pop up, so do you know authors, playwrights, dancers, painters? But it's hard to say how many of those will show up. So, it really is tough to prepare for. You've been preparing for it your whole life, you just didn't know it. If you have hard language skills, you do get brownie points for that.

The foreing Service Agency is a very profiling oriented. They like white, married and protestant men. They thing USA should be represented by conservative individuals who like help american bussiness abroad. The dont like liberals because they my sympatize with other cultures and foreing societies. This sympathy are gonna make them suspicious and not people feel superiors among other nations. If you are a white, married, protestant man you are gonna have rapport with your superiors but the main thing is to get very good notes in your exam and be good in your physical.