Government Pharmacist Exams
RRB, ESIC, DSSSB, AIIMS, state health departments — different recruiters, one professional core: the D.Pharm subjects. This bank drills that core, subject by subject, with a written explanation after every answer. Scored the RRB CBT way (+1 correct, −⅓ wrong); if your board skips negative marking, the strategy note after each set covers that too.
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Exam guides
RRB Pharmacist 2026 (CEN 05/2026): syllabus, pattern and eligibility →118 posts, applications close 14 October 2026. B.Pharm or Pharm.D only this cycle — the D.Pharm route of 2024 is gone. Every figure cited to the notice.
Subjects
P01–P08 cover the professional sections common to pharmacist recruitment syllabi, organised on the D.Pharm subject frame. Weightage varies by recruiting body, so live question counts are shown instead of invented percentages.
Dosage forms, dispensing calculations and posology, tablets and coating, emulsions, suppositories, sterilization, packaging
Official inorganic and organic compounds, limit tests, antioxidants and preservatives, chemical identity of common drugs
Drug classes and prototypes, mechanisms, adverse effects, antidotes and poisoning management
Crude drugs — biological source, family, active constituents, uses and adulteration tests
Body systems, blood, vitamins and nutrition, immunization schedule, communicable diseases, first aid
Prescription handling and Latin abbreviations, drug distribution systems, inventory control (ABC/VED/EOQ), formulary and PTC, counselling, cold chain
Pharmacy Act 1948, D&C Act & Rules with schedules, NDPS Act, DPCO, Drugs & Magic Remedies Act — the licensing and sale framework a pharmacist works under
Biomolecules and metabolic pathways, clinical laboratory tests, normal values and their interpretation
Preparing beyond the pharmacist post?
The pharmacology, pharmaceutics and law you drill here carry straight into the Drug Inspector bank and GPAT. For the aptitude/general-awareness sections some boards add, the reasoning & quantitative head of the Medical Devices wing is the same question style.
Every explanation is original to this site; law questions cite the exact Act, Rule or Schedule. Each question carries its own review status and a one-tap way to report anything that looks wrong.