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About GPAT
Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT-2011) is an all India Examination to beconducted by The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara on behalf of AllIndia Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.The Scores in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) have been in use tillthe year 2009 for admission in Master’s Programme in Pharmacy (M. Pharm) and alsofor awarding fellowships/scholarships to Pharmacy Graduates along with engineeringgraduates. The Organizing Committee for GATE expressed its inability to includePharmacy graduates in GATE with effect from the year 2010, owing to operationalproblems due to large number of candidates appearing for GATE examination.Therefore, in order to facilitate admission of Pharmacy graduates in M. Pharm as alsoto award fellowships/scholarships to Pharmacy graduates, AICTE decided to organizeand conduct an examination in the name of Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT)with effect from academic year 2010-11. Accordingly, a National Monitoring Committee(NMC) was constituted for monitoring the issues pertaining to the policy as well asconduct of GPAT examination.On the recommendation of the National Monitoring Committee for GPAT, the onus ofconducting the first GPAT examination i.e. GPAT-2010 was conducted by The M. S.University of Baroda, Vadodara.The responsibility of conducting the second consecutive GPAT examination i.e. GPAT-2011 examination was also given to The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.

PAPAR STRUCTURE
The GPAT-2011 question paper will consist of one hundred fifty (150 Nos.) multiplechoice objective questions only. Candidates have to mark the correct choice by darkeningthe appropriate bubble against each question on an Optical Response Sheet (ORS). Eachright answer will carry three(03) marks while for each wrong answer one(01) mark willbe deducted.
Each question will have four choices for the answer. Out of these, only one choice iscorrect. Each choice contains a single, stand-alone statement / phrase / data / structure.
The type of questions asked in this examination would be to evaluate a candidate’saptitude and subject knowledge of Pharmacy field which may involve basic principles,facts, formulae/laws, understanding of the fundamental ideas, and application or drawingobservations of the fundamentals of pharmacy discipline.

GPAT Scorecard:
GPAT scorecard will be made available on the website at an appropriate time. Allapplicants (qualified as well as unqualified applicants with positive scores) will get oneprinted scorecard also.

GPAT Result

  1. GPAT-2011 result will be announced on 31st May 2011, 17: 00 hrs at GPAToffice. The result will also be available on the website, as listed in Section 1.7.
  2. GPAT-2011 score is valid for ONE YEAR from the date of announcement ofthe result.
  3. The machine-gradable Optical Response Sheets (ORS) are graded and scrutinized with extreme care. There is no provision for re-grading or re-totaling. Nophotocopies of the machine-gradable Optical Response Sheets (ORS) will bemade available. No correspondence in this regard will be entertained.

For more details regarding syllabus and other information visit: http://www.gpat.in/

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