Friday, July 3, 2009

RPSGB Prereg Exam mistake - Good News for prereggers




The 2009 RPSGB Prereg exam open book paper had questions which were impossible to look up in the reference sources, BNF, Drug Tariff, and MEP.




The RPSGB Pharmacaceutical society sent out letters to all pharmacy prereg students to notify them of mistakes in the exam. I personally haven't read the letter but I have heard from the prereg in my shop that, according to the letter, the open book paper had questions in it that didn't have any way to reference and find the answers in the reference sources allowed to be taken into the exam. This means that pharmacy prereg students in the UK could have been wasting valuable time looking and searching for something that wasn't there.




From feed back from many pharmacy prereg students in the UK, this year was supposebly the hardest exam, everyone seems to think they failed and was complaining about the exam.




I will try to get a copy of the letter and have a proper read.




The RPSGB is looking to rectify the problem. How? well, we will probably never know, but we can make a few guesses:


1) The RPSGB will definitely not pass everbody because of this mistake.


2) The RPSGB as far as the letter seems to perceive, all student will not have to retake the exam


3) The closed book paper marks will not be affected.


4) The RPSGB will have to standarise the marks somehow.



Well, at least theres abit more hope for prereg students.


Good luck to everybody.


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