USCF denies many! Re: My PTCE Results

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Dear Soonthien Huong CPhT,

I have a whole link section Folder #6 dedicated to pre-pharm students

Btu specifically go to:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=587540

The specific thread on the topic: " UCSF interview?? "

will bring you to read the the following if not more have

been also been denied:

Transformer

Senior Member

jyw003

anxious pharm student

pharm916

Junior Member

sprinkle0420

Any way you may find some discussion on this site for your interview

suggestions. Use to have, may still have, a section of the forum for

people who had just had an interview to SHARE with others how the

interview went and to follow up if the got in or not. So check that

out.

Us the tabs to go from 'doctor' to 'pharmacy students' or 'pre-

pharm' .

Keep us posted,

Respectfully,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

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> > I took PTCE on 12/1 and have now received my PTCE results in the

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> > I'm proud to announce that I PASSED the exam ! :-)

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> > Total Score: 863

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> > Assist Pharmacist in Serving Patients: 866

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> > Maintain Med Inventory Control Systems: 830

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> > Admin Mgmt of Pharmacy Practice: 900

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> > Even after reading scoring explanation at PTCB web site I still

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> don't understand how scores are calculated ... but I'm pleased and

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> proud of 863 score out of 900 total possible.

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> > I attended a 7 month course. I'm currently serving externship

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> ends in just over a week. There's currently a hiring freeze where

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> serving externship so I don't expect a job offer.

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> > As we all know job openings are few and far between right now so

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> the most difficult part in all of this process will be finding a

job.

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> > Many of my ex-classmates have not found positions yet, or have

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> found part-time or full time with very low pay and no benefits.

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> > After being in the work force for 33 years and having to re-start

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> over (losing my job to outsourcing) , needless to say I'm most

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> about the job search part of all this.

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> > My main study materials were ... Pass Assured, Mosby's Review CD,

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> book on math titled " Complete Math Review for The Pharmacy

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> Technician " by A. Hopkins Jr. " , sheets of various

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> questions/answers from my school (most which were on tests we had

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> throughout the course), and my class handouts and notes.

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> > I actually didn't use materials in the files here at the group,

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> I had a lot of my own study materials already.

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> > I read posts here in the group and would tackle any math problems

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> that were posted as that was my main concern going into the test.

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> > When I took the exam the math did not seem difficult to me ... or

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> should I say not as difficult as I was anticipating.

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> > But that's because I'm somewhat insecure of my math abilities ...

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> but have been overcoming that since taking the course.

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> > My lowest math test score in class was 86% (only test I got a " B "

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> on during entire course ... and most in class got " B " on that

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> > My highest math test in class was 98% (missed 1 question,

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> darn!) ... so I did much better on math than I thought I ever would!

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> > When someone asks me if PTCE was " easy " , I hesitate to say yes or

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> no. After all what seems easy for one person may seem difficult for

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> > Whenever I heard anyone say the exam was " easy " , I would catch

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> myself relaxing and not thinking I had to study/review as hard or

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> > But then I realized not to fall into that trap. So I approached

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> as I will not assume it's " easy " and will study as though it's

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> to be really " difficult " .

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> > I tend to usually over-study but I'd rather be more prepared than

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> under prepared!

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> > I went into the exam extremely relaxed and felt very good when I

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> finished it and left the exam center because I knew I had passed.

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> > It's so funny because when I got home from externship Thursday

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> night and saw PTCB envelope, I felt nervous about opening it.

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> > I laughed and said I know I passed (because I saw that much on

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> their web site 11 days after taking exam) but I had been

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> > I was hoping to score in the 800's ... so needless to say when I

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> > Thank you everyone for all the participation here and for the

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> encouragement and support we all give each other.

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> > a CPhT

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> > (previously used " zaldamo " email handle in the group)

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> > P.S. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE ! ! !

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