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or do must people go to school, then take the test???

I will be studying on my own. I'm also registered to take the exam on 5/27. I'm

hoping that is enough time to study and pass...so nervous.

How difficult is the exam?

How did you all prepare for the exam?

What areas should I concentrate on the most?

Please help. I want this so bad!!!

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Dear He/meeknathins,

I can tell you that MOST people who use this site are studying on their own. I

would say about 60%-65%. The rest are people who are using this site in

conjunction with a work program (modules) or a school program.

Many teachers are aware of this site, as I do have a teachers site as well and

they send there students here.

But I am interested in knowing what the current membership is doing. So if

anyone wants to answer this in an individual basis, feel free.

Respctfully,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

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> or do must people go to school, then take the test???

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> I will be studying on my own. I'm also registered to take the exam on 5/27.

I'm hoping that is enough time to study and pass...so nervous.

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> How difficult is the exam?

>

> How did you all prepare for the exam?

>

> What areas should I concentrate on the most?

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> Please help. I want this so bad!!!

>

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I studied about 4 PT books before sitting the exam.

I recommend knowing math, the top 20 prescription drugs, and the most common

over the counter meds. You should know this stuff not just for the Exam but also

for potential work at the retail level.

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> I recommend knowing math, the top 20 prescription drugs, and the

> most common over the counter meds.

I'm curious, did you intend to say top 200 or was that a typo?

The top 20 doesn't seem like enough unless the candidate " just wants to pass, "

and makes a cost/benefit decision that it's not worth the effort.

I wish more info could be available about how the exam is scored. PTCB says it's

weighted to compensate for difficulty. It seemed to me like they implied each

question is weighted for its difficulty, and individual exams are assembled so

each exam is equally difficult (selecting the appropriate mix of weighted

questions).

To me, that means each question would be scored according to its difficulty. It

would also explain why an exam contains 15(?) survey questions for possible use

in future exams. Current candidates are providing the " weighting " information

which will be applied to future scoring?

PTCB stops short of saying that. Some instructors (Medina) say harder questions

count for more. Others (Reifman) say they don't, and you should guess at the

harder ones because they're a waste of time (all things being equal).

The reason I bring this up is that it would influence cost/benefit decisions

about whether to study 20, 100, 300 drugs. If harder questions count for more of

the score, then it could be a good use of time to study further (knowing an

oddball drug question might boost your score).

It's too bad PTCB doesn't divulge more information on this topic. If it's scored

the way I think it is, disclosing it would be a net positive. I think it would

create an incentive for people to dig deeper.

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