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The Hawaii MPJE is NABP’s Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination as administered for Hawaii pharmacist licensure: 120 questions in 2.5 hours at Pearson VUE — 100 scored plus 20 unscored pretest — mixing federal and Hawaii law with no distinction between them, reported pass/fail. PassProfessor’s Hawaii MPJE program, part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog, holds 1,500 original practice questions — an 800-question federal core intermixed with 700 Hawaii questions — weighted to NABP’s current Competency Statements, priced at $49, and opening for enrollment soon.
What is included in the Hawaii MPJE program?
A bank built the way the exam is built. The MPJE makes no distinction between federal and state questions, so neither does this bank: 800 federal-core questions and 700 Hawaii questions are intermixed in a single 1,500-question bank, and where a Hawaii rule differs from the federal rule, the Hawaii rule keys the answer — the same instruction NABP gives on the exam itself.
An explanation on every question. Every one of the 1,500 questions carries an explanation of why the keyed answer is right. Jurisprudence is a subject where the tempting wrong answer is usually the other jurisdiction’s rule or the federal default, and the explanation names the distinction instead of leaving you to guess at it.
Practice exams at the real exam’s shape. A full practice exam draws 100 scored questions — the scored length of the real exam — across the four competency areas at their published weights, inside the real 150-minute clock. Draws are generated fresh for each attempt, questions you have not seen come first, and you never sit the same generated exam twice. Practice exams are scored against a 70% practice benchmark — a preparation target only, because the real MPJE reports pass/fail and NABP publishes no raw passing score.
Drills by competency area. Work one area at a time — Licensure and Personnel, Pharmacist Practice, Dispensing Requirements, or Pharmacy Operations — and your results break down by area, so a weak area shows up in your practice data before it shows up on a score report.
The real exam at a glance
Current as of November 2026, per NABP’s MPJE program pages and Competency Statements and Hawaii Board of Pharmacy. Full detail — eligibility, application steps, retakes, test day — is in our Hawaii MPJE exam guide.
| Exam fact | Hawaii MPJE |
|---|---|
| Questions administered | 120 (100 scored + 20 unscored pretest, mixed in) |
| Time limit | 2.5 hours (150 minutes) |
| Format | Computer-based, multiple choice, at Pearson VUE |
| Federal vs. state questions | Intermixed with no distinction; each question is answered under the prevailing law of Hawaii |
| Scoring | Pass/fail. NABP does not publish a raw passing score, and no percentage of correct answers is the passing standard |
| Passing score | No numeric passing score is published for this exam — the result is reported as pass or fail |
| Attempts | Up to 5 per jurisdiction |
| Fees | About $270 per attempt in NABP fees |
| Eligibility | Confirmed by the Hawaii Board of Pharmacy |
| Score transfer | MPJE scores are not transferable between jurisdictions — a Hawaii result applies to Hawaii licensure only |
How does the practice map to the real exam?
| NABP competency area | Share of the real exam | Practice questions in this program | Questions per full practice exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area 1 — Licensure and Personnel | 22% | 333 | 22 |
| Area 2 — Pharmacist Practice | 33% | 498 | 33 |
| Area 3 — Dispensing Requirements | 24% | 358 | 24 |
| Area 4 — Pharmacy Operations | 21% | 311 | 21 |
The federal half of every MPJE is the same body of law, and it is larger than most candidates expect. The shared 800-question federal core in this program covers the Controlled Substances Act framework end to end: the five schedules, the rule that Schedule II prescriptions never refill, the five-refills-in-six-months limit for Schedules III and IV, emergency oral Schedule II orders and the prescriber’s seven-day follow-up duty, partial fills, pharmacist-to-pharmacist transfers of Schedules III–V, DEA registration and Form 222/CSOS ordering, biennial inventories, theft and loss reporting, and disposal. It covers the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in the form the exam tests it — adulteration versus misbranding, generic substitution and Orange Book equivalence, container labeling, child-resistant packaging, Medication Guides and REMS programs, the three recall classes, expiration and beyond-use dating, DSCSA track-and-trace duties, and the line between 503A patient-specific compounding and 503B outsourcing facilities. It covers OBRA ’90 prospective drug review and counseling duties, USP <795>, <797> and <800> compounding standards, HIPAA’s treatment/payment/operations framework and breach-notification duties, and the personnel principles that hold in every state: the pharmacist-in-charge answers for the pharmacy’s compliance, technicians never counsel, and no dispensing happens when no pharmacist is on duty.
What Hawaii law does the exam test?
Half of what makes the Hawaii MPJE hard is that it is two bodies of law at once. The Hawaii half of this program is built on:
The Hawaii questions in this bank are grounded in primary Hawaii sources read first-hand: the Pharmacy Act (Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 461), the Board of Pharmacy rules (Hawaii Administrative Rules Title 16, Chapter 95), the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (HRS Chapter 329) and its prescription accountability system law in Part VIII of that chapter, the drug product selection law (HRS Chapter 328, Part VI), the general licensing act (HRS Chapter 436B), the opioid antagonist chapter (Chapter 329E), and the 2025 and 2026 session laws — Act 93 and Act 36 — that created and then amended pharmacy technician registration. Hawaii pharmacy law is mid-modernization, and this bank keys on the current law: where an enacted Act and the web codification still differ, the Act controls.
Hawaii’s prescription monitoring program is the electronic prescription accountability system — EPAS — established in Part VIII of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act and administered by the Narcotics Enforcement Division of the Department of Law Enforcement, which has been the controlled-substances agency since January 1, 2024. Dispensers report each dispensation of an identified controlled substance to the central repository at least once every seven days and keep the underlying records for five years; a knowing failure to report is a misdemeanor and brings immediate suspension of the ability to dispense. Access is asymmetric by design: prescribers may obtain information about their own patients, while pharmacists request information about a customer in connection with a violation or possible violation of the controlled substances law — and knowing misuse of system information is a class C felony. There is no prescriber query mandate in current law: the former mandate was repealed in 2018.
Hawaii’s dispensing rules diverge from the federal baseline in ways the exam tests every cycle. A Schedule III, IV, or V prescription may not be filled or refilled more than three months after the date of the prescription, and may not be refilled more than two times, unless the practitioner renews it — not the federal five refills in six months. A Schedule II prescription must be filled within seven days of the date it was issued, Schedule II narcotics are capped at a thirty-day supply, and prescription transfers for Schedule III through V drugs are one-time only between pharmacies unless the pharmacies share a real-time, online database. A central fill pharmacy may share information for Schedule III through V prescriptions but shall never prepare a Schedule II prescription. The opioid warning on the package is statutory and verbatim: ‘Caution: Opioid. Risk of overdose and addiction.’
Substitution in Hawaii is mandatory when it saves money. Filling a brand-name prescription, the pharmacist must offer an equivalent generic drug product or interchangeable biological product from the Hawaii list — the positive list of substitutable products created and maintained by the director of health; no Drug Product Selection Board exists in current law — must tell the consumer the savings on request and of the right to refuse, and must substitute when substitution results in a savings and the prescriber has not prohibited it. Prohibition takes a handwritten ‘brand medically necessary’ — never preprinted or stamped. An anti-epileptic drug may be substituted only with the consent of both the practitioner and the patient, and after dispensing a biological product the prescriber must be told the specific product and its manufacturer within two business days.
The people rules run on odd-year cycles: pharmacist licenses, pharmacy permits, wholesale distributor licenses, and — since 2026 — pharmacy technician certificates all renew biennially by December 31 of odd-numbered years, and pharmacists complete 30 credit hours of continuing education in each biennium. Since January 1, 2026, no person may act as a pharmacy technician without a board certificate of registration — available from age 16, with vaccination reserved to technicians 18 and older — and a pharmacy may employ only registered technicians to perform technician duties. Licensure by reciprocity requires 1,500 hours of practice as a registered pharmacist within the preceding five years, and the board may examine a reciprocity applicant only on Hawaii statutes and rules. At the counter, a pharmacist may administer vaccines to patients age 3 and older, ordered by a registered pharmacist and given per ACIP recommendations; may prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies without requiring the patient to schedule an appointment; and may prescribe and dispense naloxone on the pharmacist’s own authority — no standing order is required.
What changes on March 1, 2027?
From March 1, 2027, NABP replaces the MPJE Competency Statements with a new Content Outline: Pharmacy and Pharmacist Practice 30%, Medication Use Process 30%, Regulatory Authority and Legal Obligations 20%, and Pharmacy Operations 20%. Every question in this bank is dual-tagged to both blueprints, so the program’s practice exams re-weight to the new outline when the change takes effect — the questions you practice stay the right questions, at the new weights. Candidates testing before March 1, 2027 prepare against the current Competency Statements, which is how the bank is weighted today.
How should you use this program?
Work the bank in three passes. First, take a full 100-question practice exam under the 150-minute clock to find your baseline — the per-area results show exactly where the points are being lost. Second, drill the weakest competency area in focused sets, reading the explanation for every item, right or wrong: each explanation states why the keyed answer is right, so a wrong drill answer becomes a rule learned rather than a guess missed. Third, return to full practice exams drawn fresh from the bank — questions you have not seen come first, so a rising score reflects broader coverage rather than memorized items. In the final week, shift the drill mix toward Hawaii law: it is the half of the exam that no national review book teaches, and it is where candidates who prepared generically lose the most ground.
What does the program cost?
The Hawaii MPJE program is $49 for the full bank — all 1,500 questions, full-length practice exams, and per-area drills. Enrollment opens soon; join the notify list and we will email you when it opens.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are on the Hawaii MPJE?
The exam administers 120 questions in 2.5 hours: 100 scored questions and 20 unscored pretest questions mixed in so they cannot be told apart. Your result rests on the 100 scored questions.
What score do you need to pass the Hawaii MPJE?
The MPJE is reported pass/fail against NABP’s passing standard. NABP does not publish a raw passing score, so no percentage — including the 70% benchmark this program uses in practice — is the passing standard. Older guides that quote a numeric scaled threshold describe how the exam used to be reported, not how it is reported now.
Can an MPJE score transfer to another state?
No. MPJE scores are not transferable between jurisdictions. A pass for Hawaii supports Hawaii licensure only; licensing in another MPJE state means that state’s MPJE as well. (Score transfer belongs to the separate Uniform MPJE used in other jurisdictions.)
How many times can you take the Hawaii MPJE?
Up to 5 attempts per jurisdiction. NABP fees run about $270 per attempt, so preparation before the first sitting is the less expensive route.
Who confirms eligibility for the Hawaii MPJE?
Eligibility is confirmed by the Hawaii Board of Pharmacy. You apply through NABP’s e-Profile, and eligibility must be confirmed before you can schedule at Pearson VUE.
Does the exam separate federal questions from Hawaii questions?
No — NABP states that no distinction is made in the examination between federal and state jurisprudence questions, and each question is answered under the prevailing law of Hawaii. Where the Hawaii rule and the federal rule differ, the Hawaii rule decides.
What does this program cover?
1,500 original practice questions: an 800-question federal core (controlled substances, FDA and dispensing law, compounding, privacy, licensure principles) intermixed with 700 questions on Hawaii pharmacy law, weighted to NABP’s four competency areas at 22/33/24/21 percent.
Does every question really have an explanation?
Yes — all 1,500 questions in this bank carry an explanation of why the keyed answer is right, verified from the bank files when this page was built.
What happens to my preparation when the blueprint changes in March 2027?
Nothing is lost. Every question is dual-tagged to the current Competency Statements and to the March 1, 2027 Content Outline, and the program re-weights its practice exams to the new outline — 30/30/20/20 — when the change takes effect.
Is this program affiliated with NABP or Hawaii Board of Pharmacy?
No. PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation provider and is not affiliated with NABP, Pearson VUE, or Hawaii Board of Pharmacy. The program provides practice questions for preparation; it is not a licensure requirement and confers no eligibility.
When can you enroll?
The program opens for enrollment soon at $49. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you when enrollment opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation provider, based in Salt Lake City, Utah and delivered entirely online. It is not affiliated with NABP, Pearson VUE, or Hawaii Board of Pharmacy, and this program is preparation only — it is not pre-licensing education, confers no eligibility, and does not replace the official sources. Exam facts on this page are stated as of November 2026 from NABP and Hawaii primary sources; confirm current requirements with NABP and Hawaii Board of Pharmacy before you apply.
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