Your NAPLEX study plan, week by week.

The NAPLEX tests whether you can practise safely as a new pharmacist. Building and managing treatment plans is the biggest area, so it gets the most time. Calculations show up every week because they’re easy points that fade without practice.

1. Content review, a bit under half. Disease states and drug classes, with daily calculations and questions on what you covered.
2. Mixed practice, the rest. Timed practice exams every other week, mixed question sets in between, and focused work on your weakest area.
3. Final week. Light review, nothing new, and a day off before the exam.

Topic hours follow the rough share of each competency area on the NAPLEX blueprint. Any area you tick as shaky gets 50% more time. These shares are rough, not official.

Check the current blueprint at nabp.pharmacy before you rely on it.

A plan that survives week two beats a perfect one that doesn’t.

• Study at the same time each day. Your phone goes in another room for that block.
• Keep a log of every miss and why. Re-read it before each study day.
• When you miss a day, don’t double up. Carry on from where the plan says you are.