Just found out I passed today from my saturday Naplex. Haven't gotten the score yet, but I really don't care what it is....
How I studied: RxPrep Book + Quiz Bank + Some old class notes. I made flash cards for the brand/generics. For calculations I just did what was in the RxPrep Book and Quiz Bank. For the quiz bank, my scores were mostly in 70's. It's more important to recognize why you got questions wrong then to get 100s. I wrote down what I got wrong in a notebook.
Misc Thoughts:
What you don't need to know that I wasted too much time on: Conversion tables, such as opioids. They give you these.
Formulas you should memorize: CrCl, mEq, %s, IBW, Alligation, Alliquots, Stats, TPN calcs. Be comfortable reading lab values and be able to recognize things like hypothyroidism.
Specific dosing is not really that important, but when to change dosing is, such as with renal impairment.
Dosage forms are really important. Know for instance if something comes as a SL tablet or not. Know how insulin, etc usually comes.
There were a few brand generic matching questions, but for the most part it was more important to be able to recognize say, that Avapro was an ARB instead of which specific ARB it was.
How my test was: Finished in 2 1/2 hours or so. Had about 20 calculations and 15-20 topics in general. I had no HIV, and only a handful of cancer (and those questions were easy, just on major toxicities). There were a lot of questions that were like "What is the most likely cause for the lab value on day x to have gone up?" and a lot of questions where you had 5 or so options and had to pick all that applied. I fealt really good coming out of it, then while I was waiting for the results I started to second guess myself. But it all turned out okay.
Edit: For those who care about such things, I found out today I got 118.
How I studied: RxPrep Book + Quiz Bank + Some old class notes. I made flash cards for the brand/generics. For calculations I just did what was in the RxPrep Book and Quiz Bank. For the quiz bank, my scores were mostly in 70's. It's more important to recognize why you got questions wrong then to get 100s. I wrote down what I got wrong in a notebook.
Misc Thoughts:
What you don't need to know that I wasted too much time on: Conversion tables, such as opioids. They give you these.
Formulas you should memorize: CrCl, mEq, %s, IBW, Alligation, Alliquots, Stats, TPN calcs. Be comfortable reading lab values and be able to recognize things like hypothyroidism.
Specific dosing is not really that important, but when to change dosing is, such as with renal impairment.
Dosage forms are really important. Know for instance if something comes as a SL tablet or not. Know how insulin, etc usually comes.
There were a few brand generic matching questions, but for the most part it was more important to be able to recognize say, that Avapro was an ARB instead of which specific ARB it was.
How my test was: Finished in 2 1/2 hours or so. Had about 20 calculations and 15-20 topics in general. I had no HIV, and only a handful of cancer (and those questions were easy, just on major toxicities). There were a lot of questions that were like "What is the most likely cause for the lab value on day x to have gone up?" and a lot of questions where you had 5 or so options and had to pick all that applied. I fealt really good coming out of it, then while I was waiting for the results I started to second guess myself. But it all turned out okay.
Edit: For those who care about such things, I found out today I got 118.
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