HI jericodsea, This was posted by abd on 9-5-14, I hope this help:
NAPLEX experience as a Foreign Graduate and Full time working 40hrs/week
Hello guys, I was using this forum since i was taking FPGEE ( Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination). Today, I passed NAPLEX in a first try with passing score of 75 and I would love to give my feedback to forum which will sure help other candidate. I am not a genius student and consider myself in an average student. As a foreign grad. it was tough to take this kind of big board examinations. For NAPLEX, i started my study after i finished my Internship and studied part time in the evening as i am working full time in Pharmaceutical. If you are full time worker and studying part time for this test then this info will helpful to you a lot. For 4 months I studied part time everyday in evening 5.30pm to 8.00pm ( Used Library for this time ). Within this 4 months i covered all chapters just once, used Passnaplexnow books. After 4 months of study part time one day in a weekend i tried to recall things but NO i couldn't able to recall all drugs. So decided to study full time for a month... took off from work for 3 weeks and study full time as a second time study which help me to memorize things faster than my first time study. I took date for NAPLEX and a week before test I feel that still I am not ready yet. So I reschedule my test date and started my work full time work again. At this stage I was studied 4 months(Part time) and 3 weeks full time (still didn't attend test). Then i bought Rxprep Quiz online and started Quizes part time in evening after work same as my routing, 5.30pm to 8.00pm , for 3 weeks. I usually got around 70% in each quiz. So decided to take other vacation from work and start full time study again. So I took other 3 weeks vacation from work and started studying 10 to 12 hours a day with my target date for NAPLEX test was just before my vacation over. At this stage I was studied 4 months(Part time), 3 weeks(Fulltime), 3 weeks Quizes (Part time) and 3 weeks (Fulltime). Attended a test and Passed today in first attempt, not high score,75, pass. Math is my strength that i know from my undergrad. I am good at math still I also covered one Math book during first 4 months of part time study.
4 Months ( Part time) : passnaplex books, Math book (Pharmaceutical Calculations, Howard C.Ansel) : 3 hours a day during week , No study in weekend because that time is for family and kids
3 weeks (Full time) : second time passnaplex books ( 10 to 12 hours only study, Keep family aside for that time) but not attended Naplex
3 weeks (Part time) : Quizes ( 3 hours a day during week)
3 Weeks (Full time) : Final reading for NAPLEX and 120 SDN math questions.