Congratulations! you must be getting ready to graduate or have already graduated from pharmacy school. As of November 2016 they have increased the number of questions they ask and have also increased the total test time. Now 67% of the exam is on area 1 and rest on area 2, refer to the content outline to see what is in area 1 and area 2. Questions are NOT “adaptive technology” which means question gets harder as you answer them, now they are “fixed form”. Most importantly they are not all multiple choice questions anymore, they may have multiple response question, constructed response questions, Hot spot question format. Refer to the NAPLEX candidate registration bulletin manual for details. Keep in mind you have to answer questions as it comes you can not go back or change your answers. They ask a lot of scenario based question and some stand alone questions. I remember there were many pharmacy calculation questions, good amount of questions on major disease states. They like to ask a lot of questions on adverse drug reactions, special characteristics about certain drug, counselling points, drug Interactions and contraindications especially black box warnings. Know your drug monitoring, drug levels. There are several different study material or study guide out there. In addition to whatever review courses you decide, I suggest going through the questions and answers on Pharmacyquestionbank.com NAPLEX practice questions to test your knowledge and learn by answering questions and reading the explanations.
I am attaching useful website links and documents to help you prepare for NAPLEX exam. If you would like to share any links or documents please email me. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, contact me.
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1. NAPLEX practice questions – Test your knowledge and skills in pharmacy practice including pharmacy calculations and biostatistics.
2. NAPLEX calculations – Practice questions are from real case scenarios, problems and challenges faced in real work environment. Test your knowledge and skills on pharmacy calculations including ratio strengths, rates of administration, drug concentrations, quantity of drug needed and pharmacokinetics.
3. Pharmaceutics / Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics– Practice questions on Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics for students taking NAPLEX
4. Biostatistics – Lots of practice questions on NAPLEX biostatistics.
5. NABP- NAPLEX – All about NPLEX/MPJE
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