Tips for GPAT:Basic tips for the GPAT exam

After detailed analysis of the previous year's question papers, I found that there are certain areas or important topics for GPATfrom where you will always find a question
and if a student can master these topics then he can definitely score better. Here is the detail of my analysis-

• Remember all the schedules of the drugs thoroughly because you will definitely get a question on the schedules of the drugs.
• There will definitely be 3-4 questions on the families of the herbal drugs and the questions asked on the most common or useful herbal drugs. So you can learn them easily from the CK Kokate.
• Every year now the frequency of the numerical is increasing in the GPAT examination. Basically most of the pharmacy students have a fear of attempting the numerical problems. But for scoring good marks in the GPAT it is mandatory to attempt these numerical problems. In GPAT there are limited types of numerical problems. Most of the numericals are asked from biopharmaceutics, allegation method, depression in freezing point and dose on the basis of body weight and age.
• Every year there is a definite question on the receptors and one should study this topic from the KD Tripathi or Foye's Medicinal Chemistry.
• Every year there are 6-8 questions on the spectroscopy and mainly questions come from Mass spectrometry, UV, IR and NMR spectroscopy.
• Make a separate note of all the classification of the drugs from KD Tripathi. You will definitely find questions on the classifications of the drugs.
• There will be definitely questions on the amino acid precursors of the basic chemical constituents of the herbal drugs. So you should study them before appearing in the GPAT.

Above tricks given will help you to qualify the GPAT exam but for the high percentile you have to go through all the basic textbooks thoroughly.