Hello Everyone,
I took NAPLEX last week and just found out I passed! I want everyone to know that it is a doable test. It has been extremely agonizing for me the past few days. I had many random questions that I had no idea what the answer should be so I guessed a lot. But I am confident on my math and biostatistics which I think helped me.
I had many math questions. Most of them are fill in blank type. For math, definitely know the plain old CrCl calculation. Biostatistics questions are primary literature review and chart review, very similar to what I did in pharmacy school.
The only material I used is RxPrep. I think it is a very good review book. I would say it covered at least 95% of questions (The rest 5% were so random you would need to go over your school notes to find the answer). I didn’t get 95% correct because not all material I studied stuck. So please know the underlined points in the book. Those not underlined materials are important too. I read through the whole book ( I know it’s daunting), did most of the questions at the end of each chapter. I did not use any of their online resources mainly due to financial reason. If you have some money to spare, I would recommend their online question bank. I think their math chapter is sufficient to prepare for the exam. I did not use SDN math questions. I heard they were overkill. The key for math is you need to solve the problem quickly and accurately under exam condition.
As for the PreNAPLEX, I definitely recommend it, but don’t be discouraged if you didn’t do well. I did one a few days before my real test and scored in 70’s. My real score is upper 80’s. So it is true that the preNAPLEX score had some indication to the real one. The PreNAPLEX helps you to familiarize different question types, especially the patient case type. If I had enough money, I would have purchased the second PreNAPLEX. Towards the end of the exam, my brain felt so wonky but by looking at those long patient cases, I needed to pick out important information to answer the question (please remember to “pick out” not “read through”. You don’t have time to read through). Two important things regarding pre- and real NAPLEX: One, you will like the calculator on the real exam a lot better than the preNAPLEX. Two, you do not need to memorize those normal lab values. It will be provided during the real exam. I did not know that.
This site has been very helpful to me. I hope my post could help you a little bit while you are studying for this nerve-wracking exam. Good luck everyone! Please let me know if you have any questions.
I took NAPLEX last week and just found out I passed! I want everyone to know that it is a doable test. It has been extremely agonizing for me the past few days. I had many random questions that I had no idea what the answer should be so I guessed a lot. But I am confident on my math and biostatistics which I think helped me.
I had many math questions. Most of them are fill in blank type. For math, definitely know the plain old CrCl calculation. Biostatistics questions are primary literature review and chart review, very similar to what I did in pharmacy school.
The only material I used is RxPrep. I think it is a very good review book. I would say it covered at least 95% of questions (The rest 5% were so random you would need to go over your school notes to find the answer). I didn’t get 95% correct because not all material I studied stuck. So please know the underlined points in the book. Those not underlined materials are important too. I read through the whole book ( I know it’s daunting), did most of the questions at the end of each chapter. I did not use any of their online resources mainly due to financial reason. If you have some money to spare, I would recommend their online question bank. I think their math chapter is sufficient to prepare for the exam. I did not use SDN math questions. I heard they were overkill. The key for math is you need to solve the problem quickly and accurately under exam condition.
As for the PreNAPLEX, I definitely recommend it, but don’t be discouraged if you didn’t do well. I did one a few days before my real test and scored in 70’s. My real score is upper 80’s. So it is true that the preNAPLEX score had some indication to the real one. The PreNAPLEX helps you to familiarize different question types, especially the patient case type. If I had enough money, I would have purchased the second PreNAPLEX. Towards the end of the exam, my brain felt so wonky but by looking at those long patient cases, I needed to pick out important information to answer the question (please remember to “pick out” not “read through”. You don’t have time to read through). Two important things regarding pre- and real NAPLEX: One, you will like the calculator on the real exam a lot better than the preNAPLEX. Two, you do not need to memorize those normal lab values. It will be provided during the real exam. I did not know that.
This site has been very helpful to me. I hope my post could help you a little bit while you are studying for this nerve-wracking exam. Good luck everyone! Please let me know if you have any questions.