RxPrep Course Book: A Comprehensive Course for the NAPLEX and CPJE (2015 Edition)

PROS:-Comprehensive: This exam book is very comprehensive. After four years of pharmacy school (at a highly ranked program), with countless slide sets and clinical guidelines, this was the main study material I used for the NAPLEX. It requires a significant amount of time to work through in its entirety, which may or may not be necessary, but it left no stone unturned when it came to the actual test.-Readable. This may seem like a ridiculous point to make but this book focuses on only the important areas for each disease state and drug class (underlined and bolded text).-Excellent practice questions. Most (but not all) of the chapters include a set of approximately 8-12 practice questions. This may not seem like a lot, especially when compared to other banks of test questions available for purchase, but the style, scope, and content of these questions mirrored what was found on the NAPLEX. Answering these questions (and more importantly, debunking all of the incorrect answers) was an awesome learning and review aid.-Good scope of practice calculations. A very significant chunk of the NAPLEX involved pharmacy calculations that frankly I don't see everyday in practice, and some I only encountered in one course of Pharmacy Calculations several years ago. These questions serve as a nice "refresher." However, it is recommended to practice additional questions for speed and repetition.-The book provides an excellent overview of the exam structure. None of my professors in pharmacy school ever focused on what the testing experience would be like and how the test content would be divided (i.e., it's not 100% pharmacotherapeutics). The book gave a nice "big picture" of the exam to help keep certain areas in perspective.CONS:-Details: Occasionally (very occasionally) I would find inaccuracies and simple editing mistakes, but I suppose this is to be expected because most of the chapters are contributed by different authors.-Good, but not sufficient for preparation of calculations: As I said before, this book does an excellent job of covering the types of calculation questions to be expected on the exam. However, I felt that more practice problems and repetition were needed for adequate exam preparation.

This book is spot on, you might have to read certain topics in more details from the internet, remember it is NAPLEX preparation, not a pharmacy school book. I am a foreign graduate and started by the APHA book, but then I got this book with and the question bank from Rx Prep and they are both EXCELLENT reference to understand how the US pharmacy practice is.. worth the money, get it.

Absolutely the best prep book for Naplex.It is very well organized.It is as detailed as it should be with very good explanation.If you get the online test bank that is a great bonus and worth it.I passed Naplex on the first try after using this book.

Great for review of key points. Love the tables summarizing drug classes/treatment options.Only negatives are there are quite a number of typos and at least one error. I did not expect so many considering the cost of the text. Nonetheless, no regrets buying this book and I still recommend it.

With the exception of the math section, this book was sufficient enough to pass the NAPLEX exam. If you're looking for an in-depth review, this isn't it. I would suggest the Comprehensive Pharmacy Review book instead. RxPrep is very bare bones in comparison; think of it as a Pharmacy for Dummies in a way. The book barely explains disease states and the mechanism of action of drugs. However, for NAPLEX purposes, it isn't necessary to study that deeply (at least in my case). What RxPrep does well is organize the main points to remember of each drug and emphasize important drug interactions. Which is all that's really needed to prepare for the exam for most pharmacy students.My only gripe with this review book is the math section. The material it covered was explained clearly and the practice problems helpful. However, I found that it only helped me about 50% on the actual math problems on the day of my exam. I would suggest looking into another resource to prepare for the math section. Luckily, I was able to find another resource online that better prepared me in this regard.