Practise the Saudi Pharmacist Licensure Examination the way SCFHS actually runs it: 200 single-best-answer questions split into two 100-question parts of 120 minutes, with the scheduled 30-minute break in between. Every question is mapped to the official blueprint, and an AI tutor explains every answer, in English or Arabic.
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هل تفضّل قراءة هذه الصفحة بالعربية؟ ←
Facts checked by Parvinder Kaur against the SCFHS applicant guide and service pages · 13 Sep 2026
About the exam
The Saudi Commission for Health Specialties runs a single pharmacist licensing examination. Trainee, Pharmacist, Senior Pharmacist and Consultant are classification outcomes, not separate papers. Pass the SPLE once and your grade follows from your qualifications and experience, not from a different exam.
It is taken by internationally-educated pharmacists applying to practise in the Kingdom, by Saudi graduates and Imtiyaz-year interns for professional classification, and by final-year students, who may sit it a year before graduating. Registration runs through Mumaris+, and the test itself is delivered at Prometric centres inside Saudi Arabia and abroad.
Exam day, drawn to scale
Two parts of 120 minutes with the scheduled 30-minute break between them. Budget extra time at the centre for check-in and seating.
per question in each part: 120 minutes for 100 questions.
of the 200 can be unscored pilot items. You are not told which, so treat every question as live.
SCFHS publishes no marking rule for them. Read the on-screen instructions at the centre before you decide to leave anything blank.
In the Myndaq mock, Part 1 closes when you move on to the break, so you practise finishing each part on its own clock.
The official blueprint
Each cell is 5% of the paper. In the Myndaq mock the same weights apply to each part, so every 100 questions is a full blueprint: 35 clinical, 35 pharmaceutical, 20 social and administrative, 10 biomedical.
35% of the exam
Pharmacotherapy across the organ systems: cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine and diabetes, infectious disease, gastro and renal, CNS, pain and psychiatry. Plus special-population dosing, patient assessment and lab values, OTC and self-care, and counselling.
35% of the exam
Medicinal chemistry, drug classes and mechanisms, adverse effects and interactions, toxicology, pharmacognosy, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, dosage forms and formulation, stability and biopharmaceutics, dosage and IV calculations, dilutions and compounding, and sterile technique.
20% of the exam
Saudi pharmacy law and regulation, professional ethics and SCFHS classification, the Saudi health system and Vision 2030 reforms, public health and immunisation, pharmacoeconomics, dispensing and informatics, medication safety and error prevention.
10% of the exam
Physiology and pathophysiology, biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, and the genetics and pharmacogenomics that underpin the clinical material.
Clinical and Pharmaceutical Sciences are 70% of the paper between them. That is where the preparation time belongs. But the 20% Social and Administrative block is the one internationally-educated pharmacists most often find hardest, because it is specific to Saudi Arabia and cannot be revised from a general pharmacy textbook. The blueprint explained →
No published raw-to-scaled table, so no percentage on this dial.
Scoring
SCFHS reports the SPLE on a scaled range of 200 to 800 and sets the pass mark at 536. That scale is not a percentage, and the commission publishes no table converting raw marks into scaled ones. Which means a simple thing that the prep market mostly ignores: any product promising you a predicted 536 is inventing the number.
Myndaq does not do that. After the full mock you get percentage correct, a breakdown across the four blueprint domains and pacing for each part. That is the same information, minus the fiction, and it is the part you can act on, because it tells you which domain to revise next.
Eligibility, registration and fees
The route SCFHS publishes, in order. Rules and dates change between cycles, so the SCFHS pages behind each step are the authority.
As a practitioner or an Imtiyaz-year intern. Mumaris+ is the SCFHS platform for registration and classification.
Mumaris+ and classification →The licensure exam eligibility service costs SAR 120 and SCFHS lists it as taking 5 business days.
Fees and eligibility →SCFHS runs monthly testing periods, each with its own registration window, and says the dates are subject to updates.
SCFHS dates page ↗Computer-based, at Prometric test centres in the Kingdom and abroad: two parts of 100 questions with the break between them.
SPLE exam guide →Reported 2 to 6 weeks after the end of the test window, on the scaled 200 to 800 range. 536 passes.
What 536 means →Final-year pharmacy students may sit the exam up to a year before they graduate.
Never twice in the same testing window. After a pass, two further attempts to improve the score, which matters for residency selection. The rule has changed between guide editions, so confirm it before booking.
Not on any of its own pages. The fee it does publish is SAR 120 for the eligibility service. We do not quote third-party figures; confirm the amount when you book.
What SCFHS actually publishes →Inside Myndaq
9 chapters, 36 modules and 1,848 original practice questions across the four domains. Practise a single topic, a whole domain, or the complete 200-question mock.
Both parts follow the blueprint weights, the clock runs per part, and Part 1 closes once you move on. Your result comes back as percentage correct by domain, never as an invented 200–800 prediction.
The question bank is in English, matching the pharmacy references the blueprint draws on. Ask why an answer is right, in English or Arabic, and the explanation comes back in the language you asked in, on the same question.
لماذا يحتاج كلوبيدوغريل إلى إنزيم CYP2C19؟
لأن كلوبيدوغريل دواء أوّلي، ويحوّله إنزيم CYP2C19 إلى مستقلبه النشط الذي يثبّط تجمّع الصفائح.
Illustration of the tutor’s bilingual behaviour, not a transcript.
A single overall percentage tells you little when the blueprint is weighted 35 / 35 / 20 / 10. Every attempt is scored against the four domains and the topics inside them, so “calculations” resolves into IV rates, dilutions or paediatric dosing.
Every item is an original single-best-answer question with four options and one defensible key, written for this course against the published blueprint. Not recalled exam questions.
Law, ethics, health-system and immunisation questions are written against Saudi primary documents, not another country’s rules with the names swapped.
Why the key is right, why each distractor is wrong, and a tutor you can keep asking.
Nothing to install. Practise on a phone between shifts and sit the full mock on a laptop.
In 99 seconds
The exam day, the 536, the four domains and how the course maps onto them.
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The Saudi Pharmacist Licensure Exam is two hundred questions. Myndaq prepares you for exactly that: two parts of one hundred questions, one hundred twenty minutes each, with a thirty-minute break between them. You need a scaled score of five hundred thirty-six to pass, on a range of two hundred to eight hundred.
Your Myndaq course covers it in four subjects, nine chapters, thirty-six modules. Basic Biomedical Sciences is ten percent of the exam: physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics. Pharmaceutical Sciences carries thirty-five percent across three chapters, from medicinal chemistry to calculations and compounding. Social, Behavioral and Administrative Sciences adds twenty percent, including Saudi health law and ethics. Clinical Sciences matches the biggest weight at thirty-five percent, with thirteen modules of therapeutics and practice.
Sit the full two-hundred-question mock with real timing and a scheduled break. Then every answer gets explained. Ask why clopidogrel needs CYP2C19, in English or Arabic.
Track each domain separately, so weak areas like medication safety at fifty-two percent become your next revision target. Start free at myndaq.com, exam, Saudi pharmacist.
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THE FACTS BEHIND THE TEST
Pharmacists who want to practise in Saudi Arabia sit the Saudi Pharmacist Licensure Examination (SPLE), a single computer-based exam run by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties and delivered at Prometric centres. It is taken by internationally-educated pharmacists, by Saudi graduates and Imtiyaz-year interns for professional classification, and by final-year students, who may sit it a year before they graduate.
You are not told which ones.
SCFHS publishes no raw-to-scaled conversion, so no prep provider can honestly convert a practice percentage into a scaled score.
The improvement attempts matter for residency selection. Attempt rules have changed between guide editions — confirm the current rule before booking.
This is the eligibility service fee, not the exam sitting fee — SCFHS does not publish a sitting fee on its own pages.
SCFHS says the dates are subject to updates — check the dates page before planning.
Dates and fees can change. Later source checks are dated beside the relevant fact; other facts retain the baseline review date. Confirm current details on the linked official page. Myndaq is not affiliated with the exam body.
SCFHS reports the SPLE on a scaled range of 200 to 800, and the pass score is 536. That scale is not a percentage: the commission publishes no table converting raw marks into scaled ones, so nobody outside SCFHS can tell you how many of the 200 questions 536 corresponds to. Judge your readiness on percentage correct per blueprint domain instead.
Two parts of 100 questions, each with 120 minutes of testing time, and a scheduled 30-minute break between them. Every question is a four-option single-best-answer MCQ. Up to 10% of the 200 are unscored pilot items, and you are not told which. Plan the pacing around roughly 72 seconds per question in each part.
The current SCFHS applicant guide states that eligible candidates may take the exam up to four times a year until they pass, and that after passing they may sit it twice more to improve the score, which matters for residency selection. Attempt rules have changed between guide editions, so confirm the current rule with SCFHS before booking.
Four domains with fixed weights. Basic Biomedical Sciences (10%) is physiology, biochemistry, microbiology and genetics. Pharmaceutical Sciences (35%) runs from medicinal chemistry and pharmacokinetics to dosage forms, calculations and sterile compounding. Social, Behavioral and Administrative Sciences (20%) covers Saudi pharmacy law, ethics, the health system and public health. Clinical Sciences (35%) is pharmacotherapy across the organ systems.
No. Because SCFHS publishes no raw-to-scaled conversion, any predicted 200–800 figure would be invented. The Myndaq mock reports percentage correct, a breakdown by blueprint domain, and a readiness band. That is the honest version of the same information, and it is the part you can actually act on.
No. Myndaq is independent exam-preparation material and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority, the Ministry of Health or Prometric. Every question is an original study item written against the published blueprint — none are real exam questions.
The SCFHS applicant guide does not state a language requirement explicitly. Myndaq’s question bank is in English, which is the language of the standard pharmacy references the blueprint draws on, and the AI tutor can explain any answer in Arabic. Confirm current arrangements with SCFHS.
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