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Did anyone else see this?
I actually know someone directly impacted by this. Luckily his job wasn’t jeopardized by it.
Didn't that happen last year too?
And it happened two years in a row.So they were told they failed, but in reality they'd passed? Whew lad
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I was forwarded this e-mail by a faculty member at a College of Pharmacy.
Nov 10, 2022 10:03 AM Lee Vermeulen
I have spoken with Al Carter from NABP about this situation. Briefly, recent exams had several calculation questions with fill-in-the-blank response that had multiple correct answers, generally related to leading or trailing zeros. For example, if a correct answer was "0.5", they wanted ".5" and "0.50" (etc) to be counted as correct, and they had submitted ALL of those correct responses to their vendor who manages the exam. Unfortunately, their vendor only submitted ONE correct response to those questions… not the full list… to Pearson, who set up the exam. That resulted in a number of candidates having responses scored as incorrect when they were in fact correct… and some candidates ended up with failing scores when they actually passed. Pearson found the problem as part of their routine Q&A process, and notified NABP of the error last Friday. NABP rescored all exams, and identified 222 candidates whose scores were raised from fail to pass when these scoring errors were corrected. They have notified all of the affected candidates and are working with all of them directly. They also notified ASHP, and found 23 of the 222 had been matched into residency programs, and ASHP is contacting programs and residents.
This is truly and unfortunate situation and NABP is working to address the consequences of the error with individual candidates. More information will be provided as we receive it.
Lee Vermeulen
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Lee Vermeulen
Executive Vice President and CEO
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Exactly. Class action law suit may prevent it from becoming three. Wouldn’t be shocked if this happens again next year.Okay but two years in a row??
Yikes can’t even proofread the email I guess.This is truly and unfortunate situation
Didn’t even notice that 😂Yikes can’t even proofread the email I guess.
I'm not agreeing with the explanation just passing along the e-mail which is actually not from the NABP, just relayed from the AACP to the deans of US colleges of pharmacy. Even more disturbing is that after last year's SNAFU, the NABP released a statement that, among other things assured the profession that To prevent this sort of situation from reoccurring, we have put into place additional system enhancements and scoring verification measuresOkay but two years in a row??
Even if the residency program made amends to these 23 residency candidates, they have lost several months that can never be recovered.
It'll be addressed in a routine QA process in about four months.Yikes can’t even proofread the email I guess.