NAPLEX first-try passage rate for FAMU graduates climbs to 74 percent

The first-try passage rate for graduates of the Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences who took the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) climbed to 74.2 percent in 2017, up from the previous 59 percent rate last year.

“We are pleased to see the board scores increase by 15 percentage points in just a year,” Interim Dean Seth Ablordeppey said in a quote published by the Tallahassee Democrat. “We expect this improvement to continue as we implement our aggressive action plan and project that the first-time passage rates, over the next four circles will reach the national average.”

The national average was 87.95 percent.

Ablordeppey also told the Democrat that FAMU’s 124 of 130 first-try passage on ClinCalc.com doesn’t tell the whole story.

“It is not a completely accurate comparison to compare percentages from a school with, for example, five students taking the exam with that from a school with 159 students taking the exam,” Ablordeppey said in a statement to the newspaper.