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  1. Hi, It depends on to whom are you going to the test results. Up to my knowledge, Pharmacy board in USA is very strict when it comes to names. They insist that every and any official document carry the same first, mid, and last name & identical to what they have on file. May be colleges or schools will be more flexible and understandable? Contact the entity to which you are going to submit the results and explain to them what happened. Their main concern "which I can understand", that somebody else took the exam and you are trying to use his/her result. Good Luck
  2. Hi All dear colleagues, Magdi I know it's really frustrating ... have you read my post "I attach it here" ... please let me know how can I help any of you ... good luck and be persistent. My manager 'she is a pharmacist' needed to take this exam 3 times ... you will make it guys!! Let me share with you some of my experience: 1- Please don’t listen (or consider) those who say the exam is difficult, the exam is really so simple and straightforward. 2- The tension and stress will let you hang on and more will act as a barrier between your thoughts and ability to express (speak), so relax .. I mean the word relax. 3- How to prepare: Easy, you don’t need to buy any kit (I know, some will not agree with me, yet its up to you to believe or not!) ... READ as much as can .. books, newspaper ...etc. 4- They run the test –as most of you know by now- over the phone … so consider it a normal telephone call. You will hear the instructions and read it at the same time. The voice and the pronunciation are clear and in a very simple language. 5- IMPORTANT: Don’t use any pre-prepared answer. Don’t try to memorize what you studied … just answer the same way as if you would be answering a normal telephone cal. 6- Don’t worry about doing mistakes, if you realize one, say excuse me I mean so and so. 7- Don’t expect to get a well organized story. The one I got didn’t make any sense to me. All what I did, I started by saying: Though the story doesn’t make any sense to me, yet what I see is …….!!! 8- Time is enough for each question … Yes I mean what I say. In most questions you will get like 15-30 seconds to think … they are enough. Don’t rush to start the answer immediately, if you need more seconds .. that is OK! Don’t give any impression that you have a ready answer to this question. 9- Work on your accent … yes, I think it matters a lot. Let me be honest without any offend here …. For Indians, Pakistani, Vietnamese, Japanese, Philippines you need to work on your accent. Sure we can’t by anyway have the same way of pronunciation like Americans … but at least, we can speak slowly and clearly to be easily understood. 10- In some questions I finished early .. too early, I took like 30 seconds out of 60 allocated for such questions … and it was OK. On the other hand, I couldn’t finish on time the last question … it doesn’t really matter as long as the evaluator got your message clearly. 11- Be simple, precise and to the point. Avoid words you have difficulty to pronounce. Don’t forget (TH) in English is not (S) … Thanks is not SANKS. 12- Relax …. Get enough sleep and don’t forget .. it is a 20 minutes exam :) Good Luck:)
  3. Hi John, You did great by passing the FPGEE and the TOEFL[clap] ... let me know exactly what kind of help I cab be so I can post here for all to benefit.
  4. By the way, I'm a HE not a SHE :tup: LOL:D
  5. Hi All! Let me try to answer all questions in one post. - FPGEE is Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalence Exam. We the guys who are graduate from foreign Pharmacy Schools (outside USA) have to pass it. To get the certification we need also to pass TOEFL & TSE with the scores I mentioned in my first post - When I mention accent here, I sure didn’t mean to offend rather than mention facts. I’m from Egypt and sure have the same problem but as in Egypt we learn the British accent, so it is not that strong .. again I do have an accent. - As I work in a big hospital in Texas, I have many colleagues from Japan, China, Vietnam and India. Some of them I can understand yet many I can’t. I mean here if you can understand without doing effort to understand … sure by time I can understand most of them. Put yourself in the evaluator shoes … if he needs to spend few seconds .. may be a minute to understand what you said, then your score will go down. As I see it … better to slow down, then you will get the advantage of thinking first then talking … I honestly did my best to slow down but at some moment I couldn’t as I speak by nature fast … if I had to do it again (thanks God not) I would spend some time in training (thinking, talking, repeating) very slow. Hope I answered all and please feel free to ask any question and will do my best to answer promptly. Good Luck All
  6. Magdi

    Sep result

    Yes, I got it yesterday (October 25th). I got 50 and that is what I needed for the FPGEE certification. Good Luck to you all
  7. Hello everyone, Yesterday I got the result of my TSE ‘September 18th’. It was my first time and thanks to all of you here for the help you offer. FPGEE requires 213 TOEFL & 50 TSE. I got 237 & 50 respectively. Let me share with you some of my experience: 1- Please don’t listen (or consider) those who say the exam is difficult, the exam is really so simple and straightforward. 2- The tension and stress will let you hang on and more will act as a barrier between your thoughts and ability to express (speak), so relax .. I mean the word relax. 3- How to prepare: Easy, you don’t need to buy any kit (I know, some will not agree with me, yet its up to you to believe or not!) ... READ as much as can .. books, newspaper ...etc. 4- They run the test –as most of you know by now- over the phone … so consider it a normal telephone call. You will hear the instructions and read it at the same time. The voice and the pronunciation are clear and in a very simple language. 5- IMPORTANT: Don’t use any pre-prepared answer. Don’t try to memorize what you studied … just answer the same way as if you would be answering a normal telephone cal. 6- Don’t worry about doing mistakes, if you realize one, say excuse me I mean so and so. 7- Don’t expect to get a well organized story. The one I got didn’t make any sense to me. All what I did, I started by saying: Though the story doesn’t make any sense to me, yet what I see is …….!!! 8- Time is enough for each question … Yes I mean what I say. In most questions you will get like 15-30 seconds to think … they are enough. Don’t rush to start the answer immediately, if you need more seconds .. that is OK! Don’t give any impression that you have a ready answer to this question. 9- Work on your accent … yes, I think it matters a lot. Let me be honest without any offend here …. For Indians, Pakistani, Vietnamese, Japanese, Philippines you need to work on your accent. Sure we can’t by anyway have the same way of pronunciation like Americans … but at least, we can speak slowly and clearly to be easily understood. 10- In some questions I finished early .. too early, I took like 30 seconds out of 60 allocated for such questions … and it was OK. On the other hand, I couldn’t finish on time the last question … it doesn’t really matter as long as the evaluator got your message clearly. 11- Be simple, precise and to the point. Avoid words you have difficulty to pronounce. Don’t forget (TH) in English is not (S) … Thanks is not SANKS. 12- Relax …. Get enough sleep and don’t forget .. it is a 20 minutes exam :) Good Luck:) Excuse my English … but it shows you all, that you can DO IT !!
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