GPAT Question Paper 2023

About this paper

This is a copy of the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) 2023 question paper, complete with an answer key at the end. The paper comprises 125 multiple-choice questions organized across primary sections: Pharmaceutics (formulation, dissolution apparatus, kinetics, bioavailability, and pharmaceutical jurisprudence), Pharmaceutical Chemistry (organic mechanisms, stereochemistry, rearrangements, and spectroscopy), Pharmacology (mechanism of drug action, receptor subtypes, adverse effects, and clinical pathology), Pharmacognosy (phytochemical evaluation, herbal identification, glycosides, and alkaloids), and Other Subjects covering Biochemistry, Microbiology, Biotechnology, and Pharmaceutical Management.

Exam

GPAT

Subject

GPAT

Year

2023

Questions

125

Pages

7

Answers included

Yes

Topics covered

• Pharmaceutics, drug delivery, and dissolution kinetics
• Pharmaceutical jurisprudence, acts, and regulatory schedules
• Organic reaction mechanisms, rearrangements, and stereochemistry
• Pharmaceutical analysis and spectroscopy (UV, AAS, chromatography)
• Pharmacology, receptor dynamics, and toxicology
• Pathology, organ function markers, and clinical pharmacology
• Pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, and herbal identification
• Biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, and molecular biology
• Microbiology, immunology, and biotechnology
• Pharmaceutical management and marketing

Questions from this paper

1. Which type of in-vitro-in-vivo correlation compares % drug released Vs % drug absorbed?
2. Conversion of cyclic ketone to ring expended cyclic ester takes place by which rearrangement?
3. In UV spectrophotometer, lamp used to generate UV spectrum is?
4. Which of the following is not an ACE inhibitor?
5. Unicellular conical, warty trichomes, paracytic stomata, xylem vessels with annular thickening are important microscopical features of which plant?
6. The Schick test is used to determine susceptibility to which disease?