My experience on fpgee

[totocha4]

I took april test and thanks GOD I passed... I felt surprised with first part because, in my opinion, they did not cover the most relevant topics. The questions were weird. Second part was extensive and many times I had to re read the question to understand it. However I felt this part more fair than the first because they covered many relevant topics.

I prepared from CPR, Lippincott, Remington and Manan. I think these books are enough to study the majority in blue print. I was studying according blue print.

I suggest to read once, re read, take your own notes and understand the topic. Study and pay special attention to questions and answers exercises. You never will find similar questions in the real test, but doing this, you will have the criteria to find the righ answer during the test


I hope my comments can help future test takers.


Totocha4

[pharmacology]

congratulations for passing the exam. thank you for writing your experience it is helpful , but may i ask you how did you know that you passed because the nabp hadn't published the results yet and even on the phone they don't give it.
thanks

[FloridaPH2009]

Go to Nabp website, Fpgee, score reports, December scores, put your EE number and date of birth.
Best of Luck!!!

[totocha4]

Follow this link



Score reports from the April 2009 FPGEE are now available online. .


Wishing you the best


totocha4

[pharmacology]

thanks florida and thanks totocha very much .
i passed .
thanks god. i am so happy i can't believe it, i was preparing to begin studying again.
wishing good luck for all.

[HEART888]

Hi, i would like to ask how many items will the test cover? As far as i know its 300 items and the passing is 75? Im just curious if that is 75% or 75 correct answers out of 300 items. Thank you so much.

[mmachtin]

It doesn't work like that. First, there are two parts of 125 questions so the total is 250, not 300.
Second, some of those 250 question (I don't know exactly how many) are for evaluation purpose and are not counted in the final score, so it doesn't matter what your answer was.
Third, the score is calculated out of the remaining questions and its relative between 0-150.
To make it simple, if for example, everybody answered everything right then everyone will get a 75 score and not 150. On the other hand, if only one person got only one question right and all the others answered everything wrong, then that person will get 150.

[totocha4]

Here are some useful study material I used to pass the test (besides the books mentioned before)



lymph_and_immunity.mht
Host-Parasite_Relationships.mht
Medical_Pharmacology_Table_of_Contents.mht
phcl763lec.ppt
Exams_-_Medical_Pharmacology_-_Department_of_Pharmacology_-_Tulane_University_School_of_Medicine.mht

[pharmagraduate]

It doesn't work like that. First, there are two parts of 125 questions so the total is 250, not 300.
Second, some of those 250 question (I don't know exactly how many) are for evaluation purpose and are not counted in the final score, so it doesn't matter what your answer was.
Third, the score is calculated out of the remaining questions and its relative between 0-150.
To make it simple, if for example, everybody answered everything right then everyone will get a 75 score and not 150. On the other hand, if only one person got only one question right and all the others answered everything wrong, then that person will get 150.

thnx mmachtin!!!
I think this will help us (oct.09 batch) understand things better. however i am not clear about scoring pattern, do they have percentile score?

[Lani2]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Thanks alot for sharing your experience and for the website. I think this are very impormative and will help me alot in my study.

God Bless. and Goodluck on your next exam...