Pass rate of 84.5 per cent in Society's autumn registration examination
The pass rate in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's autumn registration examination this year is 84.5 per cent, compared with 86.5 per cent in the main
summer examination (PJ, 29 July, p141).
Last year’s figures were 91.9 per cent in the summer examination
and 82.1 per cent in the autumn.
The number of autumn candidates this year was 341, of whom 288 were successful.
In the separate section of calculation questions, which candidates have
to pass in addition to passing the examination as a whole, 323 (94.7
per cent) of the candidates were successful.
The mean percentage scores for the different components of the examination
were as follows: overall 78 (range 49–93); closed book 79 (range
52–94); open book 78 (range 44–98); calculations 88 (range
30–100).
The mean percentage scores for the individual syllabus sections were
as follows: Section 1 (professional and legal practice) — part
I (professional practice of a pharmacy) 73, part II (legal aspects of
providing a pharmaceutical service) 74; section 2 (clinical and pharmaceutical
practice) — part I (clinical practice) 79, part II (pharmaceutical
aspects of practice) 62; section 3 (systems and procedures) 78.
Of this year’s 341 candidates, 285 were UK graduates or sandwich
course students, of whom 241 (84.6 per cent) passed and 44 (15.4 per
cent) failed. The remaining 56 candidates were pharmacists from overseas
seeking to register via the adjudicating route (now achieved mostly by
taking the overseas pharmacists assessment programme). Of these, 47 (83.9
per cent) passed and nine (16.1 per cent) failed.
For 21 of the candidates who failed, this examination was their first
attempt. For 27 of these candidates it was the second attempt, and for
five it was their third and final attempt.
The next sitting of the examination takes place on Friday 29 June 2007.
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