Congratulations to the RPSGB Preregistration students that passed this the prereg exam

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Friday was another day of results for RPSGB preregistration students in the UK. Another 272 people passed this Autumn exam. Congratulations for those that passed for the first time, and those taking it the second time, you must be relieved its all over. Now you can enjoy the rest of the year.

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What to do next
Now that you've passed the preregistration exam and soon be registered, what should you do next? Some of you may already have jobs lined up, if not here are some things you should consider:

1) Take a break
The pharmacy preregistration year is a though year, you work full time and have to study in the evenings. But guess what, being an actual pharmacist is more stressful, you'll be wondering if you made any mistakes every night. Take a break, organise yourself, your personal life, your finances ect. If you jump straight into a job you'll feel great for the first week cause you can give medicines out yourself, but after that you will wish for a break.

2) Get MUR certificate
For everyone that has just passed the RPSGB preregistration exam, you should try to get a certificate to allow you to do MUR's as soon as possible, get it out the way. Most employers and locum agencies want you to be able to do MUR's. If you do not have a MUR certificate this will decrease your chances of getting a job and locum jobs. Do it while all the prereg exam knowledge is still in your brain.

3) Locum
Register with a locum agency and get some experience. I know it may be scary cause your gonna be thrown in the deep end, but have confidence, be careful and get some experience. This is the best way to earn some money and get a whole load of experience. I personally went straight into a full time job after my prereg, I still haven't got any locuming experience cause I'm too knackered by the weekend, and feel it's too risky to work when your tired. So I recommend everyone to get some locum experience before you get locked in a job. One of the best things about being a qualified pharmacist is that if all goes wrong, you can locum.

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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