The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7275 p678
15 November 2003

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Letters to the Editor

Registration exam

Still evading the issues?

From Mr A. A. Adeniran, MRPharmS

The response (PJ, 1 November, p613) from Dr Robert Dewdney to questions raised on low pass rates in the registration examination avoided the key issues. The key questions were unambiguous:

• Has the Society investigated the reason(s) for the high failure rate?
• Are there sectorial differences in the failure rates that would give an indication of where assistance is needed?
• Is there really a problem with showing failed candidates the actual examination?

If candidates evaded issues in their answers to questions in the manner of the aforesaid response, I reckon failure rates would be significantly higher.

I understand that obtaining preregistration training positions is increasingly difficult, and could reach crisis point within a few years. I am considering becoming a tutor in due course and, in a sense, the committed tutor would feel responsible at least in part for their trainee’s failure. I think another opportunity has been missed by the Society to allow members to gain an insight into its workings.

One gets a sense of condescension, indifference and a shroud of secrecy around the Society’s affairs, which only reinforces the “them against us” feeling that appears to exist between the membership and the leadership/administrators.

Those questions still beg for answers, even if it is “we don’t think that there is a problem with the failure rates”.

A. A. Adeniran
Kidlington, Oxfordshire

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