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Wanted to contribute my share after reading many threads that made me feel better after feeling HORRIBLE after the test.
I studied for approximately 3 weeks, ~4-5 hours a day mostly using RX Prep, skimmed through the book once and then just used the test banks. I was only getting 55-80% on the quiz banks and it was scary! Really wanted to redo the test banks but ran out of time so I really only redid calculations and biostats.
I took the pre-naplex a week prior to my test and scored really well which gave me a confidence boost and felt really good about it but felt the pre-naplex was actually a bit too easy. I finished the 100 questions in a little over an hour.
Fast forward to Naplex and I took the full 6 hours as I could not think or focus on the test, I redid all my math 3-5 times. I felt the questions were much harder on the naplex and even more confusing (maybe these were the trial questions). I felt I was only confident on ~20% of the test. It was not the same feeling after pre-naplex! Every question I looked up after the test I ended up getting it wrong. I was so upset and remorseful!
I ended up reading on here the rumors about the NABP site on early predictors you passed such as add score transfer after registration closed (since I am from a state that doesn't have online score posting, also not from Cali with their snail mail) so I was very happy to see I did have the add score transfer and just hoping that rumors were true.
I received my score and it was actually very similar to my pre-naplex and I was very relieved I will never have to take such a long test again!!! Final point is you will always do much better than you think! Just move on if you don't know something, you can't know everything and use your time wisely (unlike me)!
Thanks SDN!
I studied for approximately 3 weeks, ~4-5 hours a day mostly using RX Prep, skimmed through the book once and then just used the test banks. I was only getting 55-80% on the quiz banks and it was scary! Really wanted to redo the test banks but ran out of time so I really only redid calculations and biostats.
I took the pre-naplex a week prior to my test and scored really well which gave me a confidence boost and felt really good about it but felt the pre-naplex was actually a bit too easy. I finished the 100 questions in a little over an hour.
Fast forward to Naplex and I took the full 6 hours as I could not think or focus on the test, I redid all my math 3-5 times. I felt the questions were much harder on the naplex and even more confusing (maybe these were the trial questions). I felt I was only confident on ~20% of the test. It was not the same feeling after pre-naplex! Every question I looked up after the test I ended up getting it wrong. I was so upset and remorseful!
I ended up reading on here the rumors about the NABP site on early predictors you passed such as add score transfer after registration closed (since I am from a state that doesn't have online score posting, also not from Cali with their snail mail) so I was very happy to see I did have the add score transfer and just hoping that rumors were true.
I received my score and it was actually very similar to my pre-naplex and I was very relieved I will never have to take such a long test again!!! Final point is you will always do much better than you think! Just move on if you don't know something, you can't know everything and use your time wisely (unlike me)!
Thanks SDN!
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