ExCPT Exam Review - Pharmacy Technicians Practice Test & Study Guide (35 Difficult Questions)

If you’re preparing for the ExCPT pharmacy technician exam and you want practice that actually challenges your test-day thinking, this video walks you through 35 difficult, exam-style questions with explanations designed to build accuracy, speed, and confidence. It’s made for pharmacy technician students, new techs in training, and anyone using an ExCPT practice test and study guide to sharpen pharmacy math, federal law basics, and medication safety knowledge. You’ll review high-yield pharmacy calculations that are easy to miss under pressure, including days’ supply problems for oral suspensions and insulin pens, plus quantity calculations for multi-dose regimens. The practice set also reinforces core pharmacy law and workflow concepts that ExCPT candidates must know, such as OBRA ’90 counseling requirements, controlled substance schedule rules (including Schedule II refill limits), and required record-retention timelines. Beyond math and law, the questions target daily technician responsibilities tied to patient safety and regulatory compliance: interpreting sig directions and common abbreviations, applying auxiliary labels, understanding NDC purpose, initiating refill requests appropriately, and knowing when to immediately refer a clinical question to the pharmacist. You’ll also hit essential safety topics like look-alike/sound-alike prevention with Tall Man lettering, recall severity (including Class I recalls), proper storage temperatures for refrigerated medications, and foundational compounding standards such as USP , USP beyond-use dating, and USP hazardous drug handling. If you’re serious about passing the ExCPT and becoming faster and more reliable on the job, watch through, pause to answer before the explanation, and keep track of the questions you missed so you can tighten weak areas. Subscribe for more pharmacy technician exam prep, comment with the hardest question for you (and what confused you), and share this with a classmate or coworker studying for certification. #ExCPT #PharmacyTechnician #PharmacyTechExam #ExCPTExamPrep #PharmacyTechnicianStudyGuide #PharmacyCalculations #PharmacyLaw #ControlledSubstances #USP795 #USP797 #USP800 #MedicationSafety