GPAT Question Paper 2012

About this paper

This is a scanned copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2012 question paper, with a 150-question answer key on the last page. The multiple-choice questions have four options each and run without sections; marks and time are not printed. Questions 17 and 150 are missing from this copy. It begins with clinical pharmacology, moves through pharmacognosy, physical and organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, analysis and biochemistry, and ends with pharmaceutics, microbiology, pharmaceutical engineering and drug law. Many items ask which combination of statements is true or test an assertion and reason, and a few are short calculations on isotonicity, half-life and ionisation.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2012

Pages

25

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Clinical pharmacology
• Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
• Medicinal chemistry
• Organic chemistry and heterocycles
• Titrimetric and electrochemical analysis
• Spectroscopy and chromatography
• Biochemistry
• Physical pharmacy
• Pharmaceutical microbiology and sterilisation
• Pharmaceutical engineering
• Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
• Drugs and Cosmetics Act and drug pricing

Questions from this paper

1. Which glucose transporter is the new drug target for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus?
2. A 55-year-old man on DOTS treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis develops peripheral neuritis. What should be added to his therapy to manage it?
3. Which chemical test is used to detect purine alkaloids?
4. Which detector is used in gas chromatography specifically for halogen-containing compounds?
5. How much sodium chloride, in grams, is needed to make 30 mL of an isotonic solution of a 2% drug whose sodium chloride equivalent is 0.20?
6. Paracetamol tablets labelled 500 mg are found by the Government Analyst to contain 200 mg. How is this product categorised under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940?