Failed PEBC qualifying exam twice — what actually worked for my third attempt

I'm not proud of this, but I failed the PEBC Evaluating Exam twice before finally passing last November. First time I went in way too confident after pharmacy school in Egypt, figured my clinical knowledge would carry me. It didn't. Second time I used a random collection of notes from Facebook groups and barely improved my score. What finally clicked for me was being brutally honest about how I was studying, not just how many hours.

The game-changer was switching to structured PEBC practice tests that actually mirrored the real exam's question style — especially the clinical judgment questions where two answers both seem correct. I went from around 60% on mocks to consistently hitting 78-82% before my third sit. My study guide routine became 2 hours of content review in the morning and a timed 50-question block every evening, six days a week for 14 weeks.

Therapeutics and sterile compounding were my weak spots. Anyone else find the calculations section more straightforward than expected, or was that just me? Happy to share the full breakdown of what I used if it helps.