GPAT Question Paper 2017

About this paper

This is a scanned copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2017 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. It opens with a block of organic chemistry, including several structure-based questions, and then mixes pharmacology, pathology, physiology, pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacognosy, analysis, biochemistry and microbiology. It also has questions on the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and animal-welfare law, the ASU drug rules, and pharmaceutical marketing and management, such as the four Ps, inventory turnover and unity of command. Some items are matching questions or ask which numbered statements are correct.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2017

Questions

125

Pages

15

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Organic reactions and stereochemistry
• Pharmacology
• Pathology and human physiology
• Pharmaceutics and dosage forms
• Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacognosy and phytochemical tests
• Pharmaceutical analysis
• Biochemistry and molecular biology
• Microbiology and immunology
• Pharmaceutical jurisprudence
• Pharmaceutical marketing and management

Questions from this paper

1. Which reagent will reduce a disubstituted alkyne to a trans-alkene?
2. If the pKa of lidocaine is 7.9 and the pH of infected tissue is 8.9, what fraction of the drug will be in the ionised form?
3. A methanolic extract of a crude drug turns magenta when treated with magnesium turnings and concentrated hydrochloric acid. What is this test called?
4. Using Young's rule, calculate the dose for a 5-year-old child if the adult dose is 340 mg.
5. Chapter IV of which law says that experiments on animals should be avoided where books, models, films and similar teaching devices would suffice?
6. What is meant by Phase 0 studies?