Re: Will you post your scores?

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Assist Pharmacist in serving patients:833

Maintain med inventory control systems: 796

Admin.management of pharmacy practice:782

Total: 819

Below is my email last March 17 as a tip on how to succeed PTCB exam.

Jo-Ann

>

> Hi everyone,

> I've been a lurker for about three months and now I guess its my time to post

and share my experience about the PTCB exams. Happy to say that I too passed the

exams last March 12.

>

> PTCB Exam:

> 1. Difficulty of the exams will mainly be in calculations w/c comprises

30%,give more focus on this part.

> 2. Pharmacy practice questions can be answered thru job training/internships,

> 3. Pharmacology questions are limited to what this drug is used for,

trade-generic names and classification of drugs.

>

> Review books which I used were as follows:

> 1.Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam Review by - easy to

understand but I noticed errors particularly on the Chapter Review Questions.

> 2.Pharmacy Practice for technicians by Don Ballington

> (Publisher:EMC Paradigm)

> 3.Pharmacology for Technicians by Don Ballington

> 4.Pharmacy Calculations for technicians by Don Ballington (if you want to

practice more on the calculation part I suggest you buy this book)

> 5. If you want to take online assessment/quizzes I often visit this website

www.emcp.com- it's the publisher's website of Don Ballington's book I mentioned

above.

>

>

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Jo - Ann

Thank you for sharing. Please remind me what state you are in.

Also are your materials still for sale?

I am not sure if your email shows on this site as I see the owners forum which

may be different as it shows all. If you have not sold your book and someone

emails me to get your email addy can I give it to them?

Thanks again,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Founder/Owner

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> Assist Pharmacist in serving patients:833

> Maintain med inventory control systems: 796

> Admin.management of pharmacy practice:782

> Total: 819

[Guest guest]

Hi Jeanetta,

Yes, my book is still available for sale.

Jo-Ann

(California)

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I passed PTCE in early April and am very thankful. Already a group member under

another account, I am posting here under real name and state.

Exam Scores

Total: 884

Assist pharmacist in serving patients: 877

Maintain med inventory control system: 900

Admin mgmt of pharmacy practice: 900

Self-study with no prior knowledge or experience in the field. The exam was not

as difficult as I had expected ... BUT ... I had worked very hard over several

months and was prepared. The study material did not come easy for me

(especially drugs and math) and several times wanted to quit.

Patience/perseverance do pay off. I don't really remember much about the spread

and specific content of the exam. Math, law (federal), and drugs are on the

exam, for sure, but then that is already known up front. Review, review,

review. Work math problems until you know them, and eventually less

periodically to keep your edge.

Resources that I used:

(1) APhA's 'The Pharmacy Technician' and companion 'Workbook & Certification

Review'. The textbook covers a lot of material including anatomy and has lots

of pictures (which were helpful to me), but being new to the field I really

enjoyed reading it. It provided what I thought was a good foundational

education. Includes math section.

(2) APhA's 'Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician'. Very good source

for learning pharmacy math, starting from scratch.

(3) 'Certification Review for Pharmacy Technicians' by Noah Reifman. Very good

resource, with a lot of very detailed information and facts packed into it.

Includes math section.

(4) Tech Lectures (Joe Medina) 'Review for the Pharmacy Technician'. Also a very

good resource and easy to read and follow. Also a good match section.

(5) 'Audio Meds' CD (from ASHP). Got me started with knowing how to pronounce

drug names (T/G), and starting the process of sight-and-sound relationships. I

also used Studystacks.com for learning T/G/Classification/Uses. Created some of

my own as well as using others. Started off with a pre-printed stack (top 200)

from local B & N, though I have since learned that TechLectures has a similar

offering.

(6) Last but certainly not least, I used Jeanetta's Tutorials and Link sections.

Printed off all of the Tutorials which formed another resource 'book' that I

learned from.

Thanks to Jeanetta and group members for encouraging us all to keep moving

forward.

Glenn (North Carolina)

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> If you have recently passed your CPhT Exam in the last year, would you kindly

post your scores and what state you are in. If you want to do this anonymously

feel free to open a new and separate account and sign on as a new member

to post your score. However I would ask you to be proud and post with your real

name and state.

>

> Respectfully,

>

> Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

> Founder/Owner

>

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Thank you for giving me the list of different places to go to. I went to Dorsey

in Michigan. DO NOT HAVE ANYONE GO TO THAT SCHOOL. THEY DO NOT TEACH YOU

HOSPITAL ONLY RETAIL. NOT MUCH HELP ON THE TEST THAT HAS HOSPITAL PROBLEMS ON

IT.

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Dear Glenn from NC,

GREAT Scores! Be proud!

If you all go to my Files section, the # 2 Folder has a list of Books that I

highly recommend. The list of books and resources are identical to my PICKS!

In addition you say similar things about each that I have said in my

recommendations!

www.studystack.com is a FREE electronic flash card program. My students also use

it to create practice question and answer not just for Trade/generic. The first

time I heard of it was about 4-5 (may be 6) years ago from a member of this site

who posted about it. I have highly recommended that site ever since.

Study Stack is placed not only in my link section but also in my Tools for Study

document as well as I post about it from time to time.

Can't say enough about the resources you used as they are identical to mine. Did

you take my advice or was this purely coincidental?

Thanks so much for sharing. You topped my overall score of 958 from many years

ago, when there were NO online study groups and only ONE (Reifman) book out

there - but I never purchased it because I did not know about it!

Since about 2005, there has been an explosion of books on the market.

Not all created equal. I always recommend at least two books!

Respectfully

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Pharm Tech Program Director/Educator

Founder/Owner

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> > If you have recently passed your CPhT Exam in the last year, would you

kindly post your scores and what state you are in. If you want to do this

anonymously feel free to open a new and separate account and sign on as a

new member to post your score. However I would ask you to be proud and post with

your real name and state.

> >

> > Respectfully,

> >

> > Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

> > Founder/Owner

> >

>

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I pretty much took your advice Jeanetta based on several groupings of resources

that you presented, so no it was not a coincidence. My comments were based on

my experience with them so I apparently came away with the same impressions that

you had written about in your resource Tutorial.

Glenn (NC)

> > >

> > > If you have recently passed your CPhT Exam in the last year, would you

kindly post your scores and what state you are in. If you want to do this

anonymously feel free to open a new and separate account and sign on as a

new member to post your score. However I would ask you to be proud and post with

your real name and state.

> > >

> > > Respectfully,

> > >

> > > Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

> > > Founder/Owner

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Hey Glen

1. Glad to know some one is using/reading my tutorials and taking my advice!

2. Thanks for the feedback that my advice was good/acceptable and worked!

3. Very interesting that we described our rating or review of these materials

fairly much the same.

Thanks for sharing,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Founder/Owner

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> > > > If you have recently passed your CPhT Exam in the last year, would you

kindly post your scores and what state you are in. If you want to do this

anonymously feel free to open a new and separate account and sign on as a

new member to post your score. However I would ask you to be proud and post with

your real name and state.

> > > >

> > > > Respectfully,

> > > >

> > > > Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

> > > > Founder/Owner

> > > >

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