This post includes the most important and frequently asked past paper questions from Paper-1 of the 2nd Year Pharmacy Technician (Category B) syllabus.
It covers two major subjects: Pharmaceutics II – Industrial Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutics III – Hospital Pharmacy. All key board topics are listed in one place to help students revise quickly and prepare confidently for final exams.
Pharmaceutics II- Industrial Pharmaceutics
1. Silverson homogenizer and its working
2. Hammer mill & its working
3. Falling film evaporator & forced film evaporator
4. Formulation and manufacturing of tablets
5. Factors affecting the choice of packaging material
6. Drying and its equipment
7. Suspending agents
8. Role of drug manufacturer in quality assurance
9. Define ointment. Write its manufacturing
10. Wet gum method and dry gum method
11. Glass material used in packaging, advantages & disadvantages
12. Components of packaging material
13. Properties of packaging material
14. Rheology and its equipment
15. Differentiate between ball mill & hammer mill
16. Mixing and V-type mixer
17. Different types of tablets
18. Detailed note on granules
19. Drying
20. Formulation and manufacturing of capsules
21. Formulation and manufacturing of liquid dosage forms
22. Overview of quality assurance system
23. Methods for manufacturing suspensions
24. Requirements for packaging material
25. Difference between falling and natural film evaporator
26. Sterilization and its types
27. Various types of mixers used for syrups and suspensions
28. Functions of packaging material
29. Note on buffers
30. Plastic material used in packaging, advantages & disadvantages
Pharmaceutics III- Hospital Pharmacy
1. Classification of hospitals based on services
2. Hospital formulary
3. Medication errors
4. Distribution of medicines in hospitals
5. Community pharmacy
6. Hospital pharmacy and its objectives
7. Dispensing to outpatients
8. Communicable diseases, names, prevention and control
9. General guidelines for proper disposal of waste
10. Individual prescription order system & complete floor-stock system
11. Communicable diseases and mode of transmission
12. Define orthopaedic, ENT, neurology departments
13. Define: Hospital pharmacy, Clinical pharmacy, Community pharmacy
14. Important hospital services
15. Unit dose method and its advantages
16. Pharmacy role in hospitals
17. Outcome of wrong labels on medication
18. Define hospital and pharmaceutical waste
19. Types of pharmacies
20. Minimum elements of a complete waste-management program
21. Dispensing to inpatients and outpatients
22. Classification of hospitals based on ownership & control
23. Methods of birth control
24. Epidemiology and its purposes
25. Note on EPI and important vaccines