About this ebook
We built this the way a pharmacist runs a technician review, not the way a shelf gets filled. PTCB delivers 90 items in 110 minutes. Eighty of them count and ten are pretest. On 6 January 2026 the content outline changed shape. Medications 35 percent, Patient Safety and Quality Assurance 23.75, Order Entry and Processing 22.5, Federal Requirements 18.75. Compounding came off the exam entirely. Federal Requirements climbed from 12.5 percent as the Drug Supply Chain Security Act reached full implementation. DSCSA and DEA scheduling get days of their own here. Your fourteen evenings follow those four weights, and nothing in these pages teaches compounding. Check us against PTCB's published content outline. We would rather you did.
What's inside
470 questions, every option explained. A 30-question diagnostic, daily quizzes, two cumulative reviews that interleave earlier days, and three full 90-item papers.
Three timed practice exams at the delivered 90-item length. Each carries the four 2026 domain weights, so the clock and the mix are familiar before you sit.
Medications you can hold in your head. Top drugs by class, brand and generic pairs, and a suffix-to-class map that turns an unfamiliar name into an educated read.
Pharmacy math shown line by line. Days supply, IV flow rates, dosing and conversions, worked with the units left in. You learn a method, not a formula to guess at.
Safety as a habit. High-alert medications, look-alike and sound-alike pairs, error prevention at order entry, and the quality-assurance vocabulary the exam asks about directly.
Fourteen short days. One idea per screen, a cold self-test to open, then yesterday's key points recalled before anything new. Maybe your last pharmacy tech guide still had a compounding chapter in it. Give this one three evenings. If the diagnostic names no domain you were not already worried about, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three readers find it useful. A technician sitting the PTCE for the first time. Someone retaking it after the blueprint change. Someone whose employer set a certification deadline. If you fill prescriptions all day, start at Day 6: the calculations are where the counter stops helping you.
Day 7 is the second calculations day, the one people reschedule. Do it on the day it falls. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Editorial Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. PTCB, PTCE and CPhT are trademarks of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. Federal and state rules change, so verify current requirements before you apply anything here. For exam preparation only; not pharmacy, medical or legal advice.
