Did I fail? I think I failed :(.

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Seralynn

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I just took the NAPLEX, and I finished *way* too quickly. It didn't feel like I was rushing or anything, but somehow, I finished before the halfway point (I didn't even get my 10 minute break). I'm almost certain this means that I was not spending enough time on the cases and that I failed.

Any feedback? Is it common for people who went through too quickly to fail? It definitely wasn't due to ease of questions -- I had almost all cancer, HIV, and immunomodulators. Consequently, those are my 3 worst subjects 🙁. I wanted them to ask me about blood pressure, diabetes, heart failure, and cholesterol -- I SO would've had those. But, no. They asked me about cancer, and I don't know about cancer 🙁.

I did kind of feel like I was mostly guessing, especially on the "select all that apply". There were 1 or 2 "choose the correct statement" where I was almost certain all were wrong. There were maybe 5 or 6 questions where I looked at it, was like "-.-" and just picked a random response and moved on cause I had no idea.

The calculations weren't too bad. One of them took me *way* longer than it should've, but since I had so much time on those, I went back and plugged the numbers I got back in to double check, so I'm pretty sure I got all of them right. But I'm worried that none of them were difficult -- shouldn't I have gotten more mEq or mOsmol questions? I got like 1 or 2 each.

Oh, and another reason I think I failed is the last question was easy....isn't that supposed to be the hardest one?
 
Hey Seralynn,

I was in the same exact boat as you coming out of the NAPLEX. I finished in 93 minutes and felt like I was guessing on a majority of the select all that apply questions. I definitely guessed on more then 5-6 questions and my last question was easy as well, but I came out with more then a passing score. Don't worry about it, just relax and be happy its over.
 
It took me a little over 2 hours; I think I was about 8 minutes from my break. That's good to hear, though. I tried googling phrases like "Finished NAPLEX early" to see if finishing early was a common thing, and I didn't really find much on it....most people did seem to think they had plenty of time, but I couldn't find many posts saying that they'd finished very early. So I started to panic. But, now that I think about it, I was always among the first 5-10 students to finish every exam in pharmacy school. It didn't mean that I did better or worse than my classmates that took longer -- I think I am just a fast test taker.

I am just a little nervous because my friend who is pretty much a straight A, Dean's list-type student said she finished with only 6 minutes to go, and I was more of an average-ish student. But she also was always one of the last ones out when we took our exams, so there is that, too. I would sometimes drive home from an exam, watch something on TV, and then after the show was finished, get a text from her saying she was finished lol.

On another note, I don't really like that I took it on a Friday....now I have to wait the entire weekend plus however many business days to get my results 🙁.
 
Hey Seralynn!! Don't' worry…it's good that you didn't ponder on each question and over think and then run out of time…which most likely results in failing because some of those people can't finish the exam. Just breathe I know it is hard. I took my exam on Friday also and Found out tuesday morning around 1030!!! So you may find out on tuesday….🙂 everyone really feels they failed so it's not uncommon…I am not sure about finishing quickly……🙄 but hang in there I am sure you will post that you passed soon :clap::clap::clap::hardy:
 
You guys might want to make a new thread to ask that, because people who have taken the new NAPLEX may not click on my post here with a title asking whether or not I failed 😉.
 
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