GPAT Question Paper 2022

About this paper

This is a copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2022 question paper, complete with an answer key at the end. The paper comprises 125 multiple-choice questions organized across primary sections: Pharmaceutics (formulation, powder characterization, tablet coating, unit operations, and drug regulatory acts), Pharmacology (mechanisms of action, drug-drug interactions, clinical trials, and pathophysiology), Pharmacognosy (plant constituents, herbal evaluation, alkaloids, and glycosides), Pharmaceutical Chemistry (organic synthesis, stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms, and thermodynamics), Pharmaceutical Analysis (spectroscopy, titrations, conductometry, and buffer systems), and Other Subjects including Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Immunology.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2022

Questions

125

Pages

10

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Pharmaceutics, drug delivery, and unit operations
• Pharmaceutical jurisprudence, acts, and regulatory bodies
• Pharmacology, clinical trials, and pathophysiological markers
• Pharmacognosy, herbal standardization, and phytochemical evaluation
• Organic synthesis, stereochemistry, and thermodynamics
• Medicinal chemistry and mechanism of drug action
• Pharmaceutical analysis, titrimetry, and NMR/IR spectroscopy
• Biochemistry and enzyme kinetics
• Pharmaceutical microbiology and immunology

Questions from this paper

1. In the process of sugar coating, to prevent moisture penetration into the tablet core, which one of the following step is performed?
2. Which of the following is a specific enzyme marker of cell death in acute myocardial infarction?
3. Insertion of an oxygen in a carbonyl compound to form an ester is known as?
4. Tropane nucleus is combination of which two ring systems?
5. According to the n + 1 rule, what would be the multiplicities of the signals in the proton NMR spectrum of 1,1-dibromoethane?
6. Which one of the following is NOT a phospholipid?