How Many Exams Have You Failed So Far....

[Ackj]

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Today was my last day of classes for my first semester. Finals are next week, but I should be able to do pretty well. Lowest exam grade so far was a 77, highest 97.

 

[Sparda29]

Med Chem was one of the classes I always got As in. I had all of the nerdy clinical pharmacy lover types running to me for help all semester. It was actually interesting. Personally, I made flash cards. Memorized all of the structures...not too bad once you get into the groove.

I guess you just had to realize most of the structures were the same and you just need to memorize one or two different functional groups?

 

[Old Timer]

Just bombed the last Therapeutics exam. Oddly enough, I got the dosing questions and indication questions and whatnot correct, and I got all of the med chem questions wrong.

Holy ****, how do you guys study for med chem? Just memorize all the structures?

You have to memorize general structures. Then you only have to know the differences. What's really different about Penicillin and Ampicillin? A pendant amino group. So once you know the basic structure than you memorize what Ampicillin has, what amoxicillin has, etc....

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

I could never memorize every arbitrary structure in MedChem and therefore could never get an A, always skated by with a B. I would always drift into some crazy wikipedia/youtube/finance search that 2 hours later would lead back to Medchem studying.

 

[diastole]

My school is P/NP so you actually are allowed to fail exams but you have to come back on what would have been your day/week off and retake them. So far I haven't come close to failing one and I don't intend to start. But if you are worried about failing your exams and want a do-over, then consider a school with no grades.

 

[MindOverMatter]

Anybody can get a 2.9-something GPA (I think that's what I graduated with...) in pharmacy school. Getting As takes effort. Passing is seriously pretty easy. It takes almost no effort. Just read the notes a few times and right there is a C...hell. Each letter grade requires an exponentially higher amount of studying. You just need to find that sweet spot where you get the concepts and can pass the test without wasting time on details that are usually irrelevant...

I hold this philosophy as well. When finals come around, people are all freaking out about keeping their As, Bs, whatever... and I'm happy knowing that I only need a 19% on the final to pass. If I want to try for the A, I could stress myself out during finals week and try to learn all the details again, but it's really not that important to me.

 

[BM2007E92]

pssh...tons, either 600 or 900 outside of school. Bah, I hope this requirement is changed soon. Do what jachen84 is doing and work on CA licensure after you've already worked a year in a state that doesn't need hours (NJ, IL, FL, etc...)

Not sure, but Ca might have modified their exact wording of their definition in CPJE eligibility. Wherever school/state you might be located in, upon graduation have your school provide a statement of your rotation hours, and then contact your local BOP so that they can endorse and complete the Ca BOP "transfer of intern hours" form for you. Depending on your program, your rotations might be enough to satisify the 1500hr requirement in Ca.

 

[Farcus]

Haven't failed any test yet, the lowest test grade i gotten so far is 82.5 this semester, and yes i am one of those that bent over for that academic penis... and no i don't hate my life and no i have plenty of fun in pharmacy school so no studying and getting good grades in pharmacy school doesn't mean u have ****ty social life just mean u have a bit less fun than some.

 

[GoldfishPharmD]

I made a 50% on a quiz that counted 20% of our grade (might as well been a test), but he bumped it up with extra credit, so I ended up getting 70% on it. I was really stressing this semester because I wanted a 4.0. However, the amount of work I put in varied. Some weeks I'd be hardcore studying and getting everything done and others, I'd be so burnt out. I managed to get an A in everything except our hardest course (also the one worth the most credits). I got a B in it. I'm still a little upset over the B but whatever. I'm not going to cry over it. The class wasn't even that hard. It's just not a class that you can cram for, and I ended up only studying the night before exams the second half of the class. I actually put in C effort and ended up with a B. I'm going to have better time management skills in the Spring. I hope.

 

[Farcus]

i'm just pissed our "US HEALTH CARE SYSTEM" class is freaking harder than Dynamics, Eutics, Biochem combined.... lulz u'd think u'll get Bs in science classes and A in dumb ass social liberal art classes... nope other way around still pissed. We don't have A or B or C just numeric grades.

 

[crazybob]

i'm just passed our "US HEALTH CARE SYSTEM" class is freaking harder than Dynamics, Eutics, Biochem combined.... lulz u'd think u'll get Bs in science classes and A in dumb ass social liberal art classes... nope other way around still pissed. We don't have A or B or C just numeric grades.

Our US Health Systems class was the same way. P1's last year said that they had about 5-7 people fail because 70% is passing, and the final exam was ridiculously hard. I scored the same on the final exam as I did on the first exams. I really studied hard for it though.

 

[crazybob]

No I am not a Pharm. student but I was curious as to how many exams or courses (if any) you have failed in pharmacy school. Also, if you fail a course, can you retake that course in the summer perhaps?


Like I said, I am just curious.😉

At my school, they only offer summer courses if more than 5 people need to retake it.

 

[Sparda29]

Our US Health Systems class was the same way. P1's last year said that they had about 5-7 people fail because 70% is passing, and the final exam was ridiculously hard. I scored the same on the final exam as I did on the first exams. I really studied hard for it though.

Really? Our Public Health Systems class was the easiest class ever, average grade on the final was like a 93.

 

[docss26]

At my school, they only offer summer courses if more than 5 people need to retake it.

I would imagine it being pretty embarrassing to fail a class. Everyone would know. I wonder if that changes the way your classmates look at you.

 

[atticus27]

Pharmacy school is for learning concepts...and the concepts aren't that hard. Getting anything more than a C is a waste of your time, with the exception of the occasional B to keep the GPA above the minimum 2.5. Unless you are the type that is easily pleased by a specific letter appearing after your name. Which I don't get. But to each their own.

I agree. In some classes they prep the tests so the studying differential between a B and an A will require a signif amt of extra time. Most of the test is based off of the concepts with varying difficulty then a small portion is just ultra minuscule details.

 

[SnDividedbyn]

Yes, I think it is possible to make A. The thing is time and expect what kind of questions it will be. It also involved concept and memorization as well as managing your valuable time when you are rushed 2-3 exams in one single week. This is what happened to me this year, I screwed up in one class and got behind so I have to borrow some time and efforts from other classes to make up for this particular one. It's pretty much fight or die kind of thing. Illness (pretty common), distraction, temporary physical disability, or psychological factors are the many reasons a student fell behind. You should know this in your economic class. I forgot what the term for it.

 

[SnDividedbyn]

The truth is I never failed any exams that I have studied for, never. I alway make A on it as well unless the questions are wrong or the answer choices are wrong or the information I learned or studied from are wrong.

 

[Milly12]

The truth is I never failed any exams that I have studied for, never. I alway make A on it as well unless the questions are wrong or the answer choices are wrong or the information I learned or studied from are wrong.

Just wait til you get into pharmacy school (assuming you're not already, since your avatar says pre-pharm). A's don't become so plentiful, even if you do study all the correct information. Not to scare you or anything. 🙂