NAPLEX = minimum competency. Why are you trying to memorize a billion pages of info?

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kdt110

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I don't get this. My interns are spending days and nights trying to memorize everything under the sun. Didn't their professors tell them the NAPLEX is a minimum competency exam and things to study for?
 
Maybe they're freaked out because of the new format and the rumors (whether true or not, I couldn't say) that it is getting harder.
 
From a new grads perspective: yes it is a minimum competency, but we have never taken the naplex before and better safe than sorry. Failing would mean potentially losing jobs, residencies, 3+ months of pay, loans/bills unpaid, life on hold, etc.

Better to be able to say "I studied way harder than I needed to pass" than "didn't study enough and failed"
 
From a new grads perspective: yes it is a minimum competency, but we have never taken the naplex before and better safe than sorry. Failing would mean potentially losing jobs, residencies, 3+ months of pay, loans/bills unpaid, life on hold, etc.

Better to be able to say "I studied way harder than I needed to pass" than "didn't study enough and failed"

This. Plus, from speaking to recent graduates, last years Naplex had a lot of questions on liver medications and HIV medications, so it is kind of a wild card.
 
I don't get this. My interns are spending days and nights trying to memorize everything under the sun. Didn't their professors tell them the NAPLEX is a minimum competency exam and things to study for?

For me, I had the free time available to study so I studied. This is one of those times where it is always better to be overprepared than underprepared. Of course, once I found out my score I realized I freaked out for nothing. However, people do fail the test, so it is a possibility. If there's a chance of something happening, I will do what I can to make sure it doesn't happen.
 
NAPLEX is a random knowledge exam. No way to predict what they will ask other than the calculations. Agree with others that after spending years in school and $$, it is better to overprepare than not prepare and fail.
 
I don't get this. My interns are spending days and nights trying to memorize everything under the sun. Didn't their professors tell them the NAPLEX is a minimum competency exam and things to study for?

Curious, what year did you take the NAPLEX?

I agree with everything else the SDN community has said... I plan to thoroughly prepare rather than risk putting my future on hold.
 
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