This NAPLEX cheat sheet strips the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination down to the facts examiners reward most, organized to NABP's five content domains. It's a premium cheat sheet built by Capital Prep — the one premium prep we trust — and it's yours free. Reinforce it with the rest of your free NAPLEX toolkit: the practice test, study guide, and flashcards.
NAPLEX exam at a glance
- Questions: 225 total (200 scored + 25 unscored pretest)
- Time: 6 hours, computer-based at Pearson VUE
- Passing score: Pass/fail — scaled score of 75 on a 0-150 scale
- Cost: About $575 per attempt; verify in the NABP Candidate Application Bulletin
What’s on the NAPLEX cheat sheet
- Foundational Knowledge (25%) — pharmacokinetics vs pharmacodynamics, first- vs zero-order elimination, CYP450 inhibitors and inducers, compounding (USP 795/797/800), and core calculations like Cockcroft-Gault.
- Medication Use Process (25%) — order interpretation, controlled-substance schedules and refills, generic vs interchangeable-biosimilar substitution, immunizations, and storage and stability rules.
- Person-Centered Assessment & Treatment Planning (40%) — the largest domain — appropriateness of therapy, the highest-yield interactions, narrow-therapeutic-index monitoring, antidotes, and patient counseling.
- Professional Practice (5%) — MedWatch vs VAERS reporting, antimicrobial and opioid stewardship, social determinants of health, and the four ethics principles.
- Pharmacy Management & Leadership (5%) — quality tools (MUE, root-cause analysis, FMEA, PDSA), formulary and P&T committees, high-alert medications, and preceptorship.
How to use it in your final week
- Front-load Person-Centered Assessment and Treatment Planning — it is 40% of the exam, so if one domain gets your last-week attention, make it this one.
- Drill the memory hooks that always appear: CYP inhibitors raise levels (toxicity) while inducers lower them (failure), and the flip for prodrugs like clopidogrel.
- Rehearse the antidote and monitoring rows out loud — acetaminophen to N-acetylcysteine, opioids to naloxone, warfarin monitored by INR (2-3), lithium and digoxin levels.
- Pair each review pass with a short timed set so 225 questions over 6 hours feels routine, then read the sheet once more the morning of the exam.
The cheat sheet is your review layer — your NAPLEX practice test drives the exam-readiness ring at the top of this page. Download it, review, then take a full practice exam (or drill with the study guide and flashcards) to see where you stand.
NAPLEX cheat sheet FAQ
Yes — the NAPLEX cheat sheet downloads as a PDF with no account, no email, and no payment. It sits alongside Career Employer's free NAPLEX practice test, study guide, and flashcards so your entire pharmacist-licensure prep stays free.
It condenses the highest-yield facts across all five NABP content domains — Foundational Knowledge, the Medication Use Process, Person-Centered Assessment and Treatment Planning, Professional Practice, and Pharmacy Management and Leadership — with the kinetics, calculations, interactions, antidotes, and monitoring parameters examiners lean on most.
No — the NAPLEX is scored pass/fail on a 0-to-150 scale, and a scaled score of 75 is passing, so you need applied clinical reasoning across roughly 225 questions in 6 hours. Use the sheet to lock in memory facts, then build judgment with full, timed practice exams.
The facts follow NABP's Content Outline effective May 1, 2025, and its published scoring and retake rules. Because fees and policies shift, always confirm the current amount in the NABP Candidate Application Bulletin at nabp.pharmacy before you apply.
Click the download button or the preview card near the top of this page and the PDF opens instantly. Bookmark this page so you can pull the sheet back up for a final review the morning of your exam.
References
- 1.National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. “NAPLEX Exam.” nabp.pharmacy, 2026. ↑
- 2.National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. “NAPLEX Content Outline (effective May 1, 2025).” nabp.pharmacy, 2025. ↑
- 3.National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. “NAPLEX Results and Passing Score.” nabp.pharmacy, 2026. ↑
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