GPAT PREPARATION TIPS
- In order to prepare for GPAT examination,
selection of right amount of study material and smart work with time management
is important.
- Some GPAT aspirants start preparing for
GPAT exam before 3-4 months of date of the exam. In this case short notes and
study tricks come in handy.
- You need to prepare short trick notes to
remember concepts and lengthy matter efficiently.
- Time management is crucial while preparing
for exam.
- You need to find proper reference
material, previous year question papers in order to prepare short notes and
diagrammatic illustrations for study.
- Use of diagrammatic illustrations and
mnemonics will be beneficial while studying pharmacology.
- Short charts and tree diagrams will also
be helpful. E.g. types of vitamins, their role and vitamin deficiencies.
- When you try to link information with a
diagram or an illustration it will be easier to remember other important topics
associated with it. E.g. While studying Respiratory system write respiratory
disorders, pathophysiology of the disease, therapy available and the
classification of drugs pointing mechanism of action on specific area around
the diagram of respiratory system.
- Referring proper material (books) is
important because questions are derived from those specific references.
- Coming to time management- all
you need is to stay away from social media and other entertainment for a while.
- Focus on your studies instead of
using mobile phone. (but you can definitely use it for studies)
- Studying for GPAT seems difficult when one
sees so much syllabus and reference material. Without panicking you just need
to divide your study in four main subjects viz, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology,
Pharmacognosy and Medicinal chemistry.
- Detailed syllabus for GPAT is available on NTA site and questions will be based on the same. Below I am suggesting some points in important subjects from which you can start your preparation.
1.
PHARMACEUTICS
·
You need to remember types of dosage
forms, their uses, limitations.
·
Solubility of compounds in parts of water
· Various additives used in the
formulations, their role and general concentrations, especially additives in
tablet and parenteral formulations.
· As tablet, capsule & parenterals are
the vast topicsand definitely every year 1-2 questions are there, you need to
study those thoroughly.
· Evaluation methods of parenterals (LAL
test, tonicity), tablets (hardness limits, dissolution) and tablet defects (capping,
brittleness), types of gelatin and composition (capsule)
·
Types of glass and the tests. Their uses
as a packaging material and storage.
2.
BIOPHARMACEUTICS
·
Mechanism of drug absorption and factors
responsible for it
·
Gastrointestinal absorption of drugs
according to pKa and acidity/basicity of drugs.
·
Basics of IVIVC
·
Dissolution apparatus (IP/USP)- types and
applications.
3.
JURISPRUDENCE
·
This subject needs to do topics by heart.
4.
MICROBIOLOGY
·
Research/discovery/invention – name of the
scientist(s).
·
Staining techniques- staining compounds
and effect on cell wall.
·
Bacteria, fungi and viruses.
·
Sterilization and disinfection tests.
5.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
·
Recombinant DNA technology- role of
various enzymes
·
Applications of rDNA technique, PCR
technique.
6.
BIOCHEMISTRY
·
All the pathways need to be remembered.
· Nucleic acids (DNA replication, DNA
transcription and translation) and vitamins are the important chapters.
7.
PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS
· Prepare short notes for types and
applications of titrations. Name of the reagent/indicators and/or instruments
used in it.
·
Principles of UV, IR, NMR spectroscopies
and mass spectrophotometry.
·
Principles of chromatography and
applications.
·
Materials used for chromatography and
their significance.
8.
NOMENCLATURE OF BASIC
COMPOUNDS
9.
PHARMACOLOGY
· Classifications of drugs are very
important. You can write all classifications in notebook and write general
mechanism of action (MOA) beside every class. As mentioned before use
anatomical diagram and correlate MOA with it for better understanding.
· Acute, sub-acute and chronic toxicity
studies with their significance (as per OECD guidelines).
10. PHARMACOGNOSY
·
As very little conceptual matter is
present in this subject, one need to do it by heart.
·
Study the drugs given in syllabus.
· Most of the times, questions were asked on
the identification tests of various compounds, extraction and isolation
methods, stomatal number, stomatal index, leaf arrangement and leaf margin.
·
Pharmacological action of given plant/part
and/or constituent.
11. HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY
·
Basics of all systems
12. BASICS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
13. CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
·
Clinical trials, placebo, adverse drug
reactions.
·
Choice of drugs during pregnancy and
lactation.
·
Choice of drugs in children (pediatrics)
and geriatrics.
·
Drug therapies in various diseases and
disorders.
REFERENCE BOOKS FOR
PREPARATION OF GPAT
PHARMACEUTICS AND RELATED
SUBJECTS
1. The
Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy by Herbert A. Liberman and Leon
Lachman.
2. Martin’s
Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
3. Essentials
of Physical Pharmacy by CVS Subramanyam.
4. Aulton’s
Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines by M.E. Aulton, Kevin
Taylor.
5. Cosmetics:
Formulation, Manufacturing and Quality Control by P.P. Sharma.
6. Biopharmaceutics
and Pharmacokinetics A treatise by DM Brahmankar.
PHARMACEUTICAL
CHEMISTRY AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
1. Foye’s
Principle o Medicinal Chemistry by Thomas Lemke, DA Williams, Lippincott
Williams and Wilkins.
2. Advanced
Organic Chemistry by BS Bahl and Arun Bahl.
3. Drug
Design by Dr. VM.Kulkarni and Dr. KG Bothara.
PHARMACEUTICAL
ANALYSIS
1. Instrumental
Methods of Analysis by HH Willard, LL Merrit and JA Dean.
2. Instrumental
Methods of Chemical Analysis by GR Chatwal and SK Anand.
3. Organic
Spectroscopy by William Kemp.
HUMAN
ANATOMY/PHYSIOLOGY/PATHOPHYSIOLOGY/PHARMACOLOGY
1. Ross
and Wilson, Anatomy Physiology.
2. Lippincott’s
Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology.
3. Pharmacology
and Pharmacotherapeutics by RS Satoskar and SD Bhandarkar.
4. Essentials
of Medical Pharmacology by KD Tripathi.
PHARMACOGNOSY
1. Pharmacognosy
by CK Kokate,AP Purohit and SB Gokhale.
2. Textbook
of Pharmacy by Thomas E. Wallis.
BIOCHEMISTRY
1. Harper’s
Illustrated Biochemistry by Robert Murray, David Bender.
2. Essentials
of Biochemistry by U. Satyanarayana and U. Chakrapani.
MICROBIOLOGY
1. Microbiology
by M. Pelczar.
2. Pharmaceutical
Microbiology, Principle and applications by Dr. Chandrakant Kokare.
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