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Dearest ,

I think you did well. 800+ is a GREAT SCORE not just a good score, I had 5 yrs

of experience and a 4 yr degree and got 859 ( 85 ... 6,8 or 9 I for get!)

Any way you describe what I would expect for someone with your education and

background and the amount of study you seem to have done/not done. So I would

say you did GOOD at 717!

My students usually get between 680 and 800. Most between 720 and 750 IF they

have completed the two month on the job externship before they get the test. So

you are not far off at all. Be PROUD I am for ya!

Thank you for your post of your score. It is personal and you still did it and

we are very pleased so that others can decide for themselves how easy it may be

for them.

I can only suggest MORE study!

Regarding exact questions we can not discuss them any way. Just topics. I am

sorry I was not asking you to post the exact drug names to see if they were

hospital ones. What I was asking was for YOU to do a search yourself to see if

they are in fact odd drugs because they were hospital and your experience is

retail.

I can not comment on any specifics that you have posted. Sorry to lead you to

post them. I changed this post for ya here.

You have been very kind with your compliments of the re-organization of the

site. Now I need to do the link section and redo the automatic emails with the

links to the folders and documents. As you may have read from a previous email

or two that my rearrangement counter acted the use of the automatic email

directions! But I am VERY glad to know it is much easier to navigate around

and I trust your judgment.

I do not know how to express the personal interest. But I can say it is a

personal conviction I have a personal quest that I must search for the best

educational material out there and put it all together for

1. the person studying who has little money to purchase study materials

2. the person who needs several examples in addition to purchased books

3. to provide freel live tutorial service for the person who needs more

interaction for learning

4. to promote education as the BEST means of producing the BEST technicians

5. to promote pharmacy technician as a promising and fulfilling vocational

career choice

6. to promote change in society and law to require pharmacy technician

education

ALL to ONE END: to PROTECT JOHN Q. PUBLIC.....

so that YOU and I and our families can be safer when we get OUR prescriptions

filled

The later is something I have never posted! a bit selfish, but the main reason

is to protect Q Public. NO matter I accept your kind words.

You sir write as if you are already a pharmacist or doctor (anecdotal). So will

you be going on to pharm school?

Regarding your experience with your friend that is what you are basing it on, no

matter how anecdotal it is still relevant to you. And I have this site and while

we would love to say there are stats there are not stats! It too is anecdotal.

But there are more such accounts than two. But there are only a few accounts

since going on line. This is why I am beseeching others to PLEASE post their

experiences, scores, background etc to gather more information that may help

other so realize how long they will need to study, difficulty etc..

So is it possible that there are really different tests being given out? What

are your thoughts on this?

Most respectfully,

And again thank you for your feed back on the new re-organization.

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Pharm Tech Educator

Founder/Ower of this site

Liu <whysthis@...> wrote:

Hey Jeanetta,

You are right. My approximation of the exam

categories is very similar to yours.

When I was referring to the drug questions, I was

talking about both trade/brand names and

classifications and specifically drug-drug

interactions. I had no problems with the other

pharmacology questions, which were few and far in

between. I did not know at least 60% of the drugs at

appeared on the test despite knowing the top 100

drugs, as I've said before. Half of the drug-drug

interactions referred to drugs I was unfamiliar with.

The other half were simple questions, such as the

popular anti coagulant drug interactions. With the

exception of one other dug, I knew none of the

other trade/generic names.

I'm sorry Jeanetta, but I do not recall any of the

names of the drugs I did not know on the test. It is

highly possible that they are hospital drugs since I

am completely unfamiliar with those at all, as my

experience is only in retail pharmacy.

I understand why you would have said my experience and

education could have allowed me to easily pass.

However, I have trained several other techs over the

years. The only one who actually took the exam passed

with only 6 months of part time work and had just

graduated from high school the same year. While I

know she picked up more quickly than most other techs

that I've trained, I do not believe that she studied

from any sort of books at all. English was also her

second language, as she had only moved to America 4

years ago. This is obviously anecdotal evidence, but

the only experiences I have to go on are hers and my

own.

Kerri has already answered the questions regarding

being able to return to old questions. The testing

options are as flexible and convenient as she stated.

You are free to go back and forwards through any of

the test questions as you please. You can also mark

questions that you are unsure about. At the end of

the test, there will be a review screen that displays

all of the test question numbers and highlights the

ones you indicated uncertainty. You are free to

return to any question as you please. There is only

one question on the screen at any given time.

My scores were not good by this group's standards. As

I recall, 800+ is a good score. Which goes to show

all the experience and education does not really

account for much if you don't study.

Total: 717

Assist Pharmacist in Serving Patients: 735

Maintain Med. Inventory Control Systems: 687

Admin. Mgmt. of Pharmacy Practice: 678

I took a look at the group files again. They are very

excellently organized. Had the site originally been

like that, I probably would not have even boughten

books. Great job, Jeanette. You really did go beyond

my expectations. I thought you needed a complete

website to organize the files, but I guess it just

required some insight. Please continue to keep up the

great work that you are doing, Jeanetta. There are

very few people who would be committed to maintaining

a project like this out of personal interest.

Again, if you have any additional questions, I will

try to answer them as I can.

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