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Taiwan Pharmacist Licensing Examination study plan

Taiwan Pharmacist Licensing Examination · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Analysis

  • Map every Pharmaceutics subtopic (dosage forms, biopharmaceutics, stability, manufacturing) to a study slot and rank by exam weight

  • Solve 40 calculation problems covering dilution, isotonicity, half-life, and dissolution kinetics without notes

  • Build a one-page formula sheet for pharmaceutical analysis (concentration, calibration curves, validation parameters) from scratch

  • Explain aloud the difference between accuracy, precision, LOD, and LOQ using only your own examples

Your checkpoint

A handwritten two-page formula-and-definitions sheet for Domains 1 and 5, plus a logged score on 40 timed calculation items

Week 2

Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Analysis

  • Summarize each major dosage form's manufacturing and QC steps into a comparison table

  • Work through 30 instrumental analysis items (spectrophotometry, chromatography, titration) and annotate every wrong answer with the underlying rule

  • Derive and practice stability-related calculations (shelf-life, Arrhenius, degradation order) until three consecutive perfect sets

  • Self-quiz Domain 1 and Domain 5 recall in 20-minute blocks and record weak spots

Your checkpoint

A dosage-form comparison table plus an error log of at least 15 corrected mistakes from Domains 1 and 5

Week 3

Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Pharmacology

  • Draw and label the core metabolic and synthetic pathways relevant to drug chemistry (functional group transformations, prodrug activation)

  • Classify 60 drug molecules by pharmacophore and predict their acid-base and solubility behavior

  • Build a receptor-and-mechanism map linking drug classes to their molecular targets

  • Answer 50 mixed chemistry/pharmacology items and tag each by failure cause (recall, mechanism, or calculation)

Your checkpoint

A one-page drug-class-to-target mechanism map plus a tagged 50-item practice log

Week 4

Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Pharmacology

  • Rehearse structure-activity relationships for at least eight major drug families from memory

  • Explain each major adverse-effect profile by its receptor or pathway basis

  • Complete two timed 40-item mixed sets under exam conditions and review every miss

  • Consolidate Domain 2 and Domain 4 notes into a single cross-referenced outline

Your checkpoint

A cross-referenced Domain 2/4 outline and two timed set scores recorded

Week 5

Pharmacology & Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy

  • Apply pharmacology mechanisms to clinical scenarios (drug interactions, contraindications, monitoring)

  • Draft therapeutic decision trees for five high-yield disease states using guideline logic you can justify

  • Practice dispensing-order review: identify dosing errors, interactions, and counseling points in 25 written cases

  • Write patient-counseling scripts for ten common medication classes in your own words

Your checkpoint

Five therapeutic decision trees plus 25 completed case reviews with documented interventions

Week 6

Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics and Dispensing

  • Convert decision trees into dispensing workflows covering verification, labeling, and counseling

  • Solve 30 calculation items on dosing, renal adjustment, IV rates, and compounding

  • Rehearse responding to adverse-drug-event and medication-error scenarios with structured documentation

  • Self-audit prescriptions for completeness and legality against a checklist

Your checkpoint

A dispensing-and-counseling checklist plus a logged score on 30 timed dosing calculations

Week 7

Pharmacognosy & Pharmaceutical Administration and Pharmacy Law

  • Identify major crude drugs and their active constituents by source, family, and pharmacological use from memory

  • Summarize quality-control and adulteration tests for herbal materials

  • Outline Taiwan pharmacy law topics (licensure, dispensing rules, controlled substances, advertising) into a structured summary

  • Answer 40 mixed pharmacognosy/law items and correct every miss with the governing rule

Your checkpoint

A crude-drug identification table plus a one-page Taiwan pharmacy-law summary, with a 40-item error log

Week 8

Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry & Pharmacognosy & Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Analysis & Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Administration and Pharmacy Law & Therapeutics and Dispensing

  • Take three full-length timed mock exams and record per-domain accuracy

  • Rank remaining weak domains by score gap and drill the top three each session

  • Re-memorize your formula sheet and mechanism map through spaced recall

  • Simulate exam-day pacing and finalize a one-page pre-exam review sheet

Your checkpoint

Three completed mock-exam score reports with a ranked weak-area action list and a final one-page review sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a timed 40-item set covering Domains 1 and 5, with every miss corrected in the error log

Week 4: Recall the drug-class-to-target map and eight SAR families with no more than three prompts, and score 65%+ on two timed mixed Domain 2/4 sets

Week 6: Complete five decision trees and 25 case reviews, and score 75%+ on the 30-item dosing calculation set

Week 8: Achieve 70%+ overall on each of three full-length mocks and show improvement in at least two previously weak domains