GPAT Question Paper 2016

About this paper

This is a scanned copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2016 question paper, with an answer key on the last page. It has 125 multiple-choice questions with four options each and no sections; marks and time are not printed. Ten are matching questions, such as alkaloids with their biosynthetic precursors, antimalarials with their modes of action, anticancer drugs with their adverse effects, and Drugs and Cosmetics Act Schedules with what they cover. The rest span pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacognosy, microbiology, analysis, quality assurance and pharmacy law, with short calculations on AUC, dose and ionisation ratio.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2016

Questions

125

Pages

12

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Pharmaceutics and tablet defects
• Physical pharmacy
• Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacology
• Medicinal chemistry
• Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
• Pharmaceutical microbiology and immunology
• Spectroscopy and electroanalysis
• Quality assurance and TQM
• Drugs and Cosmetics Act and drug pricing

Questions from this paper

1. What range of Carr's index indicates good powder flow?
2. Which microorganism is used in the assay of rifampicin?
3. What is the half-life of Tc-99m?
4. If a drug is distributed into total body water, how many milligrams are needed to obtain an initial plasma level of 5 mg/L in a patient weighing 70 kg?
5. What will be the AUC of lidocaine if the administered dose is 0.2 g and the total body clearance is 45 L/h?
6. Which body enforces the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995?