I took Naplex last week and just found out I passed!
This is my second attempt. I used Rx-Prep, I studied differently this time. I went over the chapter first, paid attention to what caused the disease, any drug can cause or worsen the disease, first / second- line treatment. Then went deeper for each class drug brand/generic, boxed warnings, contraindications, class S/Es , highlight the UNIQUE S/Es, it most likely will be on your exam.
Practice, Practice and Practice! if you have Rx-Prep Q-bank, use it, I went over the book at least 2-3 times, then used the Q-bank to check what I remembered or missed. It was very helpful in my opinion.
Questions were all over the place like others, there were some easy points (you know for sure) and some were hard. Make sure you study each chapter. Use "mnemonics" as much as you can to help. if you can not make you own, google it! at least, you must know what are the potent inducers, inhibitors... drug that can cause photosensitivity, DILE, SJS/TEN... and drug S/Es and monitoring by class, as they most likely will be the "select all apply" questions.
Study each chapter, although you may not test on all of them, but know the basic info, for example, go over the IV chapter, at least know what drugs are compatible with D5W or NS, or shouldn't be refrigerated, DEHP and drug that commonly need to be filtered. Know immunization and drug references as well... you will see # questions from the first 26 chapters.
Most biostats questions were straight forward such as RR, RRR, ARR and ITT, but there were some 2x2 table that you need pay attention to it, it was very confused and taking time to solve it, and some were interpretations with the results.
Besides ID, HTN, Anticoag... I want to mentioned is HIV, you must know all the brand /generic name, combo, class S/Es, questions were based on if you know the drug or not. you can not answer the question if you do not the drug. study hard you will not regret.
Be confident! same question can be asked in different ways, for example, at one point they asked for contraindication, and a few questions later, they asked which drug should be avoid or d/c'd based on lab result.
Time management is very important! I was a little behind when the break is called, I only finished just above 100 questions, so I have to catch up at the 2nd half, it was hard. 6 hours seems long, but time went so fast you would not noticing, however, at the end, your brain is tired, I missed some simple questions like TPN calculations.
NAPLEX is not easy anymore, but we got this! be confident ! Good luck to you all, you are welcome to ask any questions.
This is my second attempt. I used Rx-Prep, I studied differently this time. I went over the chapter first, paid attention to what caused the disease, any drug can cause or worsen the disease, first / second- line treatment. Then went deeper for each class drug brand/generic, boxed warnings, contraindications, class S/Es , highlight the UNIQUE S/Es, it most likely will be on your exam.
Practice, Practice and Practice! if you have Rx-Prep Q-bank, use it, I went over the book at least 2-3 times, then used the Q-bank to check what I remembered or missed. It was very helpful in my opinion.
Questions were all over the place like others, there were some easy points (you know for sure) and some were hard. Make sure you study each chapter. Use "mnemonics" as much as you can to help. if you can not make you own, google it! at least, you must know what are the potent inducers, inhibitors... drug that can cause photosensitivity, DILE, SJS/TEN... and drug S/Es and monitoring by class, as they most likely will be the "select all apply" questions.
Study each chapter, although you may not test on all of them, but know the basic info, for example, go over the IV chapter, at least know what drugs are compatible with D5W or NS, or shouldn't be refrigerated, DEHP and drug that commonly need to be filtered. Know immunization and drug references as well... you will see # questions from the first 26 chapters.
Most biostats questions were straight forward such as RR, RRR, ARR and ITT, but there were some 2x2 table that you need pay attention to it, it was very confused and taking time to solve it, and some were interpretations with the results.
Besides ID, HTN, Anticoag... I want to mentioned is HIV, you must know all the brand /generic name, combo, class S/Es, questions were based on if you know the drug or not. you can not answer the question if you do not the drug. study hard you will not regret.
Be confident! same question can be asked in different ways, for example, at one point they asked for contraindication, and a few questions later, they asked which drug should be avoid or d/c'd based on lab result.
Time management is very important! I was a little behind when the break is called, I only finished just above 100 questions, so I have to catch up at the 2nd half, it was hard. 6 hours seems long, but time went so fast you would not noticing, however, at the end, your brain is tired, I missed some simple questions like TPN calculations.
NAPLEX is not easy anymore, but we got this! be confident ! Good luck to you all, you are welcome to ask any questions.