GRADUATE PHARMACY APTITUDE TEST is a national level entrance exam conducted by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) every year as per the directions of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.

the list of the the Important Topics of the Pharmaceutics Subject of the GPAT Exam is given below

Physical Pharmacy: Must do topic for GPAT (5 to 6 questions)
2. Microbiology
a) Stains and types of staining techniques,
b) Rideal walker,
c) Chick martin test,
d) Antibiotic assay organisms,
e) Source of antibiotics,
f) Nutrition, cultivation, isolation of bacteria,
g) Sterilization methods, Organisms used for testing and uses
3. Biotechnology:
a) Antibodies types, their structures,
b) Types of hypersensitivity reactions,
c) Vaccines (remember which vaccines are killed, attenuated etc)
4. Forensic:
a) Schedules
b) Forms
c) Acts and their years
d) Organisation and their members
5. Unit Operation: Just basic information from these chapter including principles, uses and advantages of equipment.
a) Fluid Flow
b) Heat transfer
c) Evaporation
d) Distillation
e) Drying
f) Size Reduction
g) Mixing
h) Filtration and Centrifugation
i) Crystallization
j) Dehumidification and Humidity Control
k) Corrosion
6. Pharmaceutical technology:
a) Tablets, capsules and Aerosols (Most important chapters),
b) Suspension and emulsion (Suspending agents, Emulsifying agents, o/w n w/o emulsion and preparation methods),
c) Suppositories and semisolids (Bases only),
d) Microencapsulation (size ranges only),
7. Numericals:
a) Allegation,
b) Tonicity adjustment,
c) Displacement value,
d) Dose adjustments,
e) Alcohol over-proof and under-proof
8. Cosmetics (not in detail) : Nail polish film formers, lipstick constituents, examples
9. Pharmacokinetics: Basic numerical only, bioavailability
10. Parenteral:
a) Pyrogen testing,
b) Routes of injections.
c) Glass types and tests,
d) Rubber components,