GPAT Question Paper 2020

About this paper

This is a scanned copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2020 question paper, with an answer key on the last page. It has 125 multiple-choice questions in one run; marks and time are not printed. The first half is mostly pharmaceutics and physical pharmacy (glass containers, gelatin, emulsions, rheology, thermodynamics, suppository displacement values), followed by organic and medicinal chemistry and spectroscopy, pharmacology, pathology and physiology, and a final mix of pharmacognosy, Drugs and Cosmetics Act, intellectual property, ISO standards, clinical trials and Ayurveda and homoeopathy.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2020

Questions

125

Pages

14

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Pharmaceutics and packaging
• Physical pharmacy and thermodynamics
• Pharmaceutical microbiology
• Biopharmaceutics
• Organic chemistry and heterocycles
• Medicinal chemistry
• Spectroscopy
• Pharmacology
• Pathology and human physiology
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmaceutical jurisprudence and intellectual property

Questions from this paper

1. Which Gram-positive bacterial species is positive for the coagulase test?
2. What are the specific reagents used in the Skraup synthesis of quinoline?
3. What gives warfarin its weakly acidic nature?
4. Who was the chairman of the Drugs Enquiry Committee set up in 1927?
5. In which year did India sign the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)?
6. To what temperature range is the reaction raised during the denaturation step of the polymerase chain reaction?