PAST PAPERS OF AKUH TRAINEE PHARMACIST TEST - SOLVE IT WITH BRAIN

Past papers of AKUH SPSC PPSC AND OTHER SCREENING TEST

 Pharmacology 

1) ______ is used to prevent H1N1
A)Amentadine B)Oselteamivir C)Acyclovire D)Ganciclovir 

2) Competitive alters____ and non-competitive inhibitors alters______.
A) Efficacy: Potency  B)Potency: Efficacy  C)Efficacy: efficacy  D) Potency: potency

3) ________ fungal infection is very difficult to irradiate.
A) Nail B) Scalp C) Skin D) Mucous membrane           

4) A 300 mg dose of a drug is given whose t1/2 is 6 months. What is the amount remaining after 2 years (F=1)(hint: exponential elimination)
5) Dermatophytes is treated by _____

 ______ cream 1% is used in burn.

A)cortisole B)clotrimazole C) Silver sulfadiazine

6) _PERMETHRIN CREAM 5%_____ use in ?

7) A person allergic to easter type anesthetic, what would you give?
A) Tetracain B) Bupivacain C) Procain D) All

8) Rauwolfia alkaloid is/are:
A) Raserpine B) ephedrine C) bromocriptine D) All 

9) Which prostaglandin is used in glaucoma?
A) Latanoprost B) Misoprostol C)Alprostadil

10) supraventricular tachycardia is best treated by___
A) Sotalol B) Amiodarone C) Adenosine D) Dofitalide

11) The drug(s) that are used in angina:
A) Nitroglycerine B) Verampamil C) Beta blocker D) All 

12) Drug(s) acting on distal portion of nephrone is/are:
A) Furosimide B) Indapamide C) Bumetinide D) All    

13) Gastric acid secretion is increased by all EXCEPT:  
A) Gastrin B) Histamine C) Acetylcholine D) Serotonin

14) Which prostaglandin is used as tocolytic?
A) Latanoprost B) Misoprostol C) Alprostadil

15) Ductus artreosis is treated by:
A) Ace inhibiter  B) Aminophylin C) Indapamide

16) Which drug effects osteoclast activity:
A) Alandronate (B) Vitamin D   (C) Calcium carbonate (D) Calcitonin

17) Which hormone controls calcium metabolism?
(A) Thyroid hormone (B) Growth hormone (C) IGF-1 (D) Parathormone

18) A patient taking Asprin 75mg, heparin 4000 units, enalepril 2.5mg, and hudrocortisone 20 mg. He develops severe GI bleeding. What would be the most reasonable cause?
A) Asprin, Heparin B) Heprin, Corticosteroid (C) Asprin, Heprin, Corticosteroid (D) Enalepril, Asprin

19) The monitoring of efficacy and safty of warferin and heparin respectively is done by:
A) aPTT:INR  B) INR:aPTT  C) aPTT:aPTT  D) INR:INR  

20)______ cream 1% is used in burn.

21)Glycopeptide antibiotic has been shown conc. Independent killing. The ratio Peak plasma level/trough level demonstrates effective therapy.

Physiology-Pathology

1) Sensory receptors transmit signal through:
A) Afferent B) Efferent C) Motor D) None  

2) megaloblastic anemia is caused by the deficiency of:
A) Folate B) Iron C) Vitamin B12 D) Both A and C  

3) The prognostic marker of heart failure is:
A) BUN (B) Type-B natriuretic peptide (C) Creatinine

Pharmaceutical Practice

1) Schedule A B C D drug from drug law manual

2) A person come to your pharmacy and show himself as a patient’s close relative and ask some information. What would you do?

A) Provide all information

B) Provide a little information

B) Disclose no information to him

C) Provide a little information

D) Provide information as many as he wishes

3) If you observe adverse drug reaction, what would your FIRST step?
A) inform the concern doctor

B) Take necessary measure to reduce further harm to patient

C)  Just watch and see

D) Do nothing

4) All are controlled substances EXCEPT:
A) Narcotics B) Ephedrine C) Antihistamine

5) A patient taking medicine from erroneous prescription. He got:
A)Adverse drug event B) Adverse drug reaction C) Toxicity D) Both A and C

6) Subscription part of prescription include:
A) Patient name B) Ingredient C) Rx  (D) Both A and B         

Remember always solve the pharmaceutical calculation with open mind because it's always tricky 

Pharmaceutical calculation

Using this equation, solve the following.
1) Creatinine clearance: (140-age) * ideal body wt          (For women Sr.cr * 0.85)
                                          Serum creatinine * 72
2) Ideal body: 50+2.3kg for each inch above 5 feet    ‘’’For males
                   45.5+2.3kg for each inch over 5 feet       for female
3) Cr Clearance for peads: k * height(in cm)
                                            Sr.Cl(in mg/ml)
K preterm: 0.33
K term:      0.45
K Child or adolescent girl: 0.55
K Adolescent boy: 0.7
4) Body surface area: (Wt in kg * Ht in cm/3600)0.5

1) What gram of NaCl is required to make 250 ml of normal saline?
A) 445  B) 335  C) 225  D) 105

2) If a liter of drug contains a drug A 250mg. The required dose is 50mg. Calculate the total ml of infusion to be delivered(Infusion rate is set at 30 drops/min):
A) 12.5  B) 175  C) 22.5  D) 100
Calculate ml/min=??? 

3) An infusion Bag of 1 liter contains D25 (Dextrose 25%). What the total amount of energy a patient gets if he receive 500ml of it? (1gm dextrose = 3.1 kcal of energy)
A) 300  B) 200  C) 100  D) 122.22

4) If ointment A is 25%, B is 4% and C is 1% is mixed taking equal weights. What would be the final concentration of that ointment to be prepared?
A) 50%  B) 40%  C) 30%  D) 20%

5) A women of age 45 years, height 67.37 inches, weight 65 kg, has a prescription of 75mg/m2 of doxorubicin. How much you dispense per day?

6) A baby having 27 gastional weeks, height 10cm, serum creatinine 0.085mg/ml, weight 300gm. Calculate creatinine clearance for the drugs to be administered safely:
A) 39  B) 40  C) 41  D) 50               

Microbiology
1) Shingels is caused by:
A)Voricella zoster virus  B) Herps simples  C) Cytomegalo virus  D) Hepadna virus 

2) Immunocompromised (eg., AIDS) patients can’t receive:
A) Live (attenuated) vaccine  B) Killed vaccine C) Toxoid  D)Acellular vaccine               

3)Pseudomonas auregenosa belongs to:
A) Gram –ve  B)gram +ve  C) Acid fast  D)None        

4) Lyme disease patients is given:
A) Amoxxicillin  B) Co-troimoxazole  C) Ceftriexone  D) All              

5) Travellers diarrhea is MOST commonly caused by:
A) Enterrococci  B) Shigella  C) Salmonella  D)All       

6) Rockey mountain spotted fever is caused by:
A) Borrelia  B) Leptospira  C) Rikitsia  D) Non     

7) A higher MIC means organism is:
A) Sensitive  B) Resistant  C) Minimally resistant 

8) Gas gangrene is caused by:
A) C.botulium  B) C.deficcile  C) C.tatni  D)All 

9) Atipical Becteria:
A) MERSA  B) Mycoplasma  C) MESNA  D) Salmonella

General knowledge
1) The highest rank in Pakistan is:
A) tamgha imteaz  B)Nishan-e –Pakistan  C) Nishan-e-Haider   

2) Who is the current caretaker PM 

Read the following And answer 

Reasoning Questions:

Best match:
A) 1, 2, 4  

B) 1, 2, 3 

C) 1, 2, 9  

D) 3, 5, 8 

“INTERVIEW QUESTTIONS ASKED”
prescription parts?
Ciprofloxacin      500mg  BD
Antacid
Iron
What is the problem with it?
2) What is INR?
3) What is the INR in warfarin monitoring?
4) What is the INR when bleeding is likely to occur?
5) What measures should be taken when bleeding occur?
6) What is TPN? Why it is given? What it contains?
7) How many departments are there in hospital pharmacy?
8) What is sterile area? Importance?
9) How many types of laminar flow? What is the use of vertical flow?
10) What is the use of compounding/dispensing?