Hi everyone!

I just wanted to give everyone who did not pass the NAPLEX the first
time around some advice. YOU CAN DO THIS!! The first time I took the NAPLEX was
in September of 2016. I only studied for maybe 2 months prior to the exam, and
ended up almost not completing the exam (since I am a very slow test taker). After I
received the failing score (64), I was absolutely devastated. But I got through it, I
buckled down, and I started to really study my online version of Rx Prep. I did ALL of
the calculation quizzes on there until I made 100% on all of them. I also went
through EVERY chapter of the book, and did NOT skip over the "unimportant"
chapters. I promise you, with this new NAPLEX (standardized) there are NO
UNIMPORTANT chapters. It's all laid out so that you will receive questions on just
about everything. So don't skip over the OTC chapter, MS, sterile compounding,
know excipients used in compounding (binders, lubricants, etc.), know the Cystic
Fibrosis chapter! Just don't skip over the small stuff. I studied for another 4 months,
and made a 103 (with a score variance..so I had to send in documentation
explaining why my score was so much higher). Just don't give up! You can do this.
Hello all,

Just wanting to give back to the SDN community! I took my naplex on 01/17 and
found out today that I passed with score of 86. I'm someone who's super in the zone
when I take my exam so I'm sorry I can't give you an estimate of how much of the
exam is what.

Topic wise, I think it's pretty much similar to the ones posted my those who passed
in November and December - HIV, ID, diabetes, HTN, onc, asthma, COPD, Biostats,
etc. Decent amount of calculation but none surprised me. If you can master the SDN
120 questions you are all set. Some compounding questions as well.

How I study:
- I went through the whole book and took notes for each chapter. However, I only
review/study my notes after for major topics. I would study my note for one chapter,
take the RxPrep quiz after to solidify the material in my memory and move on to the
next. My second to last day I started to revisit the major major topics (HIV, ID, DM,
HTN, asthma, COPD) and flipped through the top 200 drugs to know the brand
names.

There were definitely questions I had zero idea about - like I don't even recognize
the drug's name, have no idea what class it is and what it's for - so the list of topic is
definitely not complete. However, since I knew the key topics very well, I was able
to pass.

Good luck to everyone taking it in the near future!

Topics that heavily covered are: anticoagulation, DM, cardio, drug-drug interactions,
hypertension, AFib, transplant, ID, HIV, hepatitis, biostat, asthma (minimal), COPD
(minimal), cholesterol (minimal), onco (minimal), psychiatry (focus on drug-drug
interactions), skin (1-2 questions), dosing, immunizations, drug storage and
counseling, compatibility, and lots of lots of calculations. You need some organic
chemistry knowledge (Don't spend too much time on this part).