A computer-implemented system and method are provided for selecting practice exam questions that reflects the focus of actual exam, a student's preferences, and the student's past performance in particular topics. The system and method are particularly useful for assisting students preparing for an exam, but may be used in general for computerized education. Actual exam information, a student's past performance data and preferences are represented as data tables inside the computer memory. Such past performance data may include an accuracy ratio and the average time spent per question for each topic. A formula is applied to evaluate these data to obtain a numeric measure of the importance of each preferred exam practice topic. The number of practice questions to select per topic is determined based on the numeric measure. Questions from a set of practice questions are selected randomly or deterministically for each topic.