GPAT Question Paper 2018

About this paper

This is a scanned copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2018 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 starts with biotechnology, pharmaceutical engineering, the Drugs and Cosmetics, Factories and Patents Acts, and management and marketing, then moves through biochemistry, organic and medicinal chemistry, analysis and spectroscopy, physical pharmacy, pharmaceutics and packaging, microbiology, pharmacognosy, physiology and pathology, and ends with pharmacology. Calculations include alcohol dilution, isotonicity, absorbance-based assay, NMR frequency and mixed-liquid viscosity.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2018

Questions

125

Pages

22

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Biotechnology and recombinant DNA
• Pharmaceutical jurisprudence and patents
• Pharmaceutical management and marketing
• Biochemistry
• Organic and medicinal chemistry
• Pharmaceutical analysis and spectroscopy
• Physical pharmacy
• Pharmaceutics and packaging
• Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics
• Pharmacognosy
• Human anatomy, physiology and pathology
• Pharmacology

Questions from this paper

1. As per the Factories Act 1948, what is the maximum number of hours in a week that an adult worker may work in a factory?
2. What does Henri Fayol's principle 'esprit de corps' mean?
3. What is the concentration of paracetamol in 0.1 N sodium hydroxide whose absorbance in a 1 cm cell at 257 nm is 0.825, if its A (1%, 1 cm) is 715?
4. What is the nuclear magnetic resonance frequency of ¹H in a magnetic field of 7.05 tesla?
5. Which clotting factor is known as the Stuart factor or thrombokinase?
6. Which side effect of ACE inhibitors results from inhibition of bradykinin breakdown?