Took my NAPLEX last week and found out i passed yesterday! From what i gathered about my experience and many others, everyone feels like they failed in a major way after they take the NAPLEX. And to be honest, if everyone felt fine afterwards, and you didn't, then you'd know theres something wrong. But since that's not the case, it is completely normal, expected, and possible a required for you to feel like crap afterwards. 
Id say that the main trouble i had on the exam was the Select All that Apply questions. About 40% of my questions were written that way, which made me second guess myself and i automatically counted those as the ones i got wrong (or just pretended that they were part of the experimental questions). Math was the only thing i was 100% about. If i can give any advice, it would be to know your math, and know it well. I studied mainly from the rxprep book and took the quizzes online, as well as the SDN 120?s. Although SDN was overkill compared to the NAPLEX, if you were able to get through those, you'd be more than prepared. I had about 10 biostats questions, both interpretation of a study and calculating NNT, ARR, RRR, etc. And i had 20 math questions. I was barely asked on HIV and onco, i had about 8 questions total on those topics, and they were straight forward like calculating BSA, drug class, main side effect and what to give to treat symptoms experienced with cancer meds. When reviewing before my exam i made sure to go over all heart disease states, immunizations (which ones to give and which are contraindicated), diabetes (insulin calculations too), HIV, renal and liver disease as well as i could. There were a few compounding questions on the exam, and A LOT of drug drug interactions, allergies, and knowing which drug causes a change in lab values. Majority of the exam is about patient safety, so scanning the whole profile when needed AFTER reading the question was important. The topics i wasn't able to get to reviewing, seemed to be on my exam, and those are probably what i got wrong as well. I left the exam feeling confident on about 30% of my exam. So basically it's a lose lose situation all together. Anything that seemed unfamiliar to me or was just so out of the blue, i considered as part of the 35 experimental questions, which made me more confident
Important thing to do is not stress yourself out days before your exam date. The odds are in your favor to pass. As long as you have your math down and know basic/minimal information about the various disease states and medications, you'll be fine! Hey, if Dr. Idiot can pass, then so can you!
#Moud
Id say that the main trouble i had on the exam was the Select All that Apply questions. About 40% of my questions were written that way, which made me second guess myself and i automatically counted those as the ones i got wrong (or just pretended that they were part of the experimental questions). Math was the only thing i was 100% about. If i can give any advice, it would be to know your math, and know it well. I studied mainly from the rxprep book and took the quizzes online, as well as the SDN 120?s. Although SDN was overkill compared to the NAPLEX, if you were able to get through those, you'd be more than prepared. I had about 10 biostats questions, both interpretation of a study and calculating NNT, ARR, RRR, etc. And i had 20 math questions. I was barely asked on HIV and onco, i had about 8 questions total on those topics, and they were straight forward like calculating BSA, drug class, main side effect and what to give to treat symptoms experienced with cancer meds. When reviewing before my exam i made sure to go over all heart disease states, immunizations (which ones to give and which are contraindicated), diabetes (insulin calculations too), HIV, renal and liver disease as well as i could. There were a few compounding questions on the exam, and A LOT of drug drug interactions, allergies, and knowing which drug causes a change in lab values. Majority of the exam is about patient safety, so scanning the whole profile when needed AFTER reading the question was important. The topics i wasn't able to get to reviewing, seemed to be on my exam, and those are probably what i got wrong as well. I left the exam feeling confident on about 30% of my exam. So basically it's a lose lose situation all together. Anything that seemed unfamiliar to me or was just so out of the blue, i considered as part of the 35 experimental questions, which made me more confident
Important thing to do is not stress yourself out days before your exam date. The odds are in your favor to pass. As long as you have your math down and know basic/minimal information about the various disease states and medications, you'll be fine! Hey, if Dr. Idiot can pass, then so can you!
#Moud
