The Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) is a national-level pharmacy entrance exam in India. Knowing the GPAT syllabus in detail helps applicants prepare for the exam. The exam-conducting authority released the NBEMS GPAT syllabus 2025 in an official notification. Candidates willing to appear in the upcoming GPAT exam must begin their preparation by gaining a thorough understanding of the subject-wise GPAT syllabus and GPAT exam pattern. Applicants can download the detailed GPAT syllabus PDF using the downloadable link provided below. Preparing for the GPAT exam is not possible without in-depth information about the GPAT exam syllabus 2025. Knowing the GPAT 2025 important topics is

Applicants who want to appear in the exam can check the GPAT 2025 marking scheme which will help them to prepare and make a strategy to qualify for the exam with good marks.

Major topics from Pharmaceutics syllabus that are expected in the exam from the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test syllabus are:

• Pharmacy Profession & Introduction to Pharmaceuticals
• Introduction to dosage form
• Sources of drug information
• Allopathic dosage
• Crude extract
• Allergenic extract
• Biological products
• Pharmaceutical Plant, location, layout
• Dosage Form Necessities and Additives
• Powders
• Capsules
• Tablets
• Parenterals - product requiring sterile packaging
• Suspensions

The Pharmacology topics can be revised using the given below topics:

• General Pharmacology
• Nerohumoral transmission in autonomic and central nervous system
• Pharmacology of peripheral nervous system
• Pharmacology of central nervous system
• Pharmacology of cardiovascular system
• Drugs acting on urinary system
• Drugs acting on Respiratory system
• Pharmacology of Endocrine system
• Chemotherapy
• Autacoids and their Antagonists
• Pharmacology of drug acting on the gastrointestinal tract
• Chronopharmacology
• Immnopharmacology

Relevant topics from Pharmacognosy syllabus expected in the GPAT entrance exam are:

• Introductory Pharmacognosy
• Classification of crude drugs
• Factors influencing quality of crude drugs
• Techniques in microscopy
• Introduction to phytoconstituents
• Principles of plant classification
• Pharmaceutical aids
• Animal products
• Plant products
• Toxic drugs
• Enzymes
• Natural pesticides and insecticides
• Adulteration and evaluation of crude drugs
• Quantitative microscopy
• Biogenetic pathways

The Pharmaceutical Analysis is another relevant subject from which the given below topics are expected in the MPharma entrance exam:

• Importance of quality control in pharmacy
• Acid-base titrations
• Non-aqueous titrations
• Oxidation-reduction titrations
• Precipitation titrations
• Complexometric titrations
• Gravimetry
• Extraction techniques
• Potentiometry
• Miscellaneous methods of analysis
• Calibration
• General principles of spectroscopy
• Ultraviolet-visible spectrometry
• Spectrofluorimetry
• Flame photometry & atomic absorption spectrometry

In the Biochemistry subject generally the given below topics are asked in the exam to evaluate the aptitude of candidates:

• Cell
• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Lipids
• Vitamins
• Biological oxidations & reductions
• Enzymes
• Nucleic acids
• Hereditary diseases

Here are some important Biotechnology related topics which are often seen in GPAT exam:

1. Plant Cell and Tissue Culture
2. Animal Cell Culture
3. Fermentation Technology and Industrial Microbiology
4. Recombinant DNA Technology Basic concepts
5. Process and Applications