ANDHRA PRADESH DRUG INSPECTOR EXAM PATTERN AND SYLLABUS

SCHEME AND SYLLABUS FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF DRUG INSPECTORS  IN A.P. DRUG CONTROL ADMINISTRATION SCHEME WRITTEN (OBJECTIVE TYPE) EXAMINATION


1  GENERAL STUDIES &  MENTAL ABILITY 
150 Marks 150 Questions. 150 Minutes 


2 SUBJECT (ONE PAPER)
 300 Marks 150 Questions 150 Minutes 


3 INTERVIEW (ORAL TEST)  50 Marks   




                                    S Y L L A B U S


GENERAL STUDIES & MENTAL ABILITY


1.  General Science – Contemporary developments in Science and Technology and their 
implications including matters of every day observation and experience, as may be 
expected of a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific 
discipline. 


2.  Current events of national and international importance. 


3.  History of India – emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its 
social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on AP Indian National 
Movement. 


4.  World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP. 


5.  Indian polity and Economy – including the country’s political system- rural development 
– Planning and economic reforms in India.  


6. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences. 




                                       SUBJECT


1. Importance of various Pharmacopeas with special reference to Indian Pharmacopoes, 
British Pharmacopea, Unites States Pharmacopoea and International Pharmacopoes. 


2. Sources of drugs: Plant, Animal, Mineral, Synthetic and Biotechnological drugs.


3. Preparation of Infusions, Decoctions, Tinctures, Solutions, Soft and Dry extracts.  
Introduction and classification of various pharmaceutical dosage forms. 


4. Various parts of “Prescription” handling of prescriptions preliminary knowledge of 
important Latin terms useful in interpretation of prescription and their translation into 
English. 


5. Posology: Calculation of dosage for infants, children adults and elderly persons.  Alcohol 
dilutions, Proof spirit, Isotonic solutions, Displacement value. 


6. Brief outline of communicable diseases, their causative agents, modes of transmission 
and their prevention (Chicken pox, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Leprosy, Sexually 
transmitted diseases and AIDS). 


7. First Aid: Emergency treatment of shock, snake-bites, burns, poisoning and fractures. 


8. Classification of microbes their structure and identification.  Bacterial growth, nutritional 
requirements and staining. 


9. Contamination of pharmaceuticals in hospital and community environments by microbes. 


10. Sterilization: Definition, types, procedure and testing. 


11. Sterilization of materials, equipments and utencils used in hospitals, centralized and 
decentralised sterilization.  Drug distribution  system in hospitals for out-patients and inpatients. 


12. Opthalmic preparations: formulations, methods of preparation, containers and evaluation. 


13. Collection, processing, storage and evaluation of blood, blood products and plasma – 
substitutes 


14. Surgical products: Surgical cotton, surgical guazes, bandages, sutures, ligatures and 
catguts.


 15. Definition and types of incompatibilities (Physical Chemical and Therapeutic), correction 
of incompatibilities. 


16. Anatomy and physiology of Cardio-vascular system and related common disorders like 
hypertension, hypotension, angina, myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure. 


17. Anatomy and physiology of Digestive system and related disorders like peptic ulcers, 
constipation, diarrhoea and jaundice. 


18. Functions of different parts of Brain and spinal cord, Neuohumoral transmission in the 
central nervous system and autonomic nervous system. 


19. Drugs, acting on cardiovascular system: Digitalis and other cardiac glycosides, antihypertensive drugs, anti-anginal and vasodilators including calcium channel antagonists. 


20. Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal tract: antacids, anti-ulcer drugs, anti-emetics, laxatives 
and anti diarrhoeal drugs.


21. Drugs acting on central nervous systems: Sadatives, hypnotics, anti-anxiety agents, 
centrally acting muscle relaxants, anti-epileptics, analgesic, anti-phyretic and antiinflammatory drugs. 


22. Antigens, anti-bodies, antigen-anti body reactions, hypersensitivity active and passive 
immunity types of vaccines. 


23. Historical development of antibiotics.  Isolation of fermentation products with special 
reference to pencillins and tetracyclines. 


24. Carbohydrate metabolism: Glycolysis, glucogenesis, glucogenolysis, glycogen formation, 
pentose phosphate pathway, uronic acid pathway, abnormalities of carbohydrate 
metabolism. 


25. Introduction and principles of anti-microbial therapy Cotrimoxazole, fluorauinelones, 
newer pencillins, broad spectrum antibiotics, cephalosporins, macrolides, anti-tubercular, 
anti-leprotic, antifungal and anti-viral drugs.


26. Anti protozoan and anthelmintic drugs.  Chemitheraphy of neoplastic diseases. 


27. Salient features of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules, 1945 with special 
reference to Duties and powers of Inspectors.  Composition and functions of statutory 
bodies. 


28. Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act, 1985 with special reference to 
procurement and utilization of dosage forms.