Pharmacy technician (PTCE, ExCPT)
PTCB practice test, one domain at a time
Pick a domain of the PTCE outline and answer ten questions. Each answer is corrected at once with its reason; missed ones come back later.
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| Study target: 8 of 10 (80%), not the official passing score |
Practice questions written by Radif Partners from the public outline; not questions from the real exam. Progress stays in this browser.
The Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE) of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) leads to the Certified Pharmacy Technician credential, CPhT. Since January 6, 2026 it follows a revised content outline with four domains: medications (35.00% of the scored questions), federal requirements (18.75%), patient safety and quality assurance (23.75%) and order entry and processing (22.50%). The exam has 90 multiple-choice questions, 80 scored and 10 unscored, in 1 hour 50 minutes of testing time, delivered by Pearson VUE. Results use a scale of 1,000 to 1,600, and scaled score of 1,400 (scale 1,000 to 1,600). The fee is $129. This practice test draws ten questions from the domain you choose; order entry includes the pharmacy calculations that many candidates find hardest.
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Chance to reach the study target on a full mock
22%
- Full mock
- 90 questions, 1 h 50 min
- Study target (ours)
- 72 right, 80%
- Expected right at your rate
- 68
The target is a study goal set by this site, not the official pass mark (scaled score of 1,400 (scale 1,000 to 1,600)).
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The four domains of the PTCE
| Domain | Share of scored questions | Questions in a full mock | Questions in our pool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medications | 35.00% | 32 | 51 |
| Federal Requirements | 18.75% | 17 | 29 |
| Patient Safety and Quality Assurance | 23.75% | 21 | 36 |
| Order Entry and Processing | 22.50% | 20 | 55 |
Our full mock scales the shares to the 90 questions of the real form. Each question in our pool is also tagged for the ExCPT of the NHA where the topic appears there, so practice for one exam counts for the other.
What each domain asks
Medications covers generic and brand names, therapeutic classes, indications, common side effects and interactions, dosage forms, storage, narrow therapeutic index drugs and look-alike or sound-alike names. Federal requirements covers the controlled substance schedules, the DEA forms for ordering, loss and destruction, restricted distribution programs, recalls and hazardous drug handling. Patient safety and quality assurance covers error prevention, high-alert drugs, error-prone abbreviations, tall man lettering, event reporting and when a question goes to the pharmacist. Order entry and processing covers reading prescriptions and sig codes, calculations, the National Drug Code structure, packaging, beyond-use dates and nonsterile compounding basics.
Three rules that answer many questions
- Clinical judgment belongs to the pharmacist. Counseling, therapy changes and anything that needs judgment about a patient go to the pharmacist; options that have the technician decide are usually wrong.
- Federal law sets the floor. When a question asks about a rule "under federal law", ignore stricter state rules you know from work.
- Round days supply down. A partial day is not a day of therapy; ninety tablets at four a day last 22 days, not 22.5.
PTCE · practice
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| Study target: 4 of 5 (80%), not the official passing score |
Practice questions written by Radif Partners from the public outline; not questions from the real exam. Progress stays in this browser.
From domain sets to the full exam
Begin with medications, the largest domain, and order entry, where calculations hide. Keep a list of the drugs you miss; the top 200 drug cards help with names and classes, and the pharmacy math page with conversions. Wrong answers come back on the review page. When each domain is above the study target twice in a row, take the full PTCE mock.
These questions are ours, written from the outline topics. They are not questions from the real exam, and no one can honestly offer those.