GPHC Pharmacy Exam

I want to know the pattern of Pharmacy Exam of General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) so can you tell me?

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Gphc Pharmacy Exam is a national examination usually held during the last week of June and the last week of September, at several venues.

Passing the assessment is part of the overall criteria for registration as a pharmacist. There are two separate papers to the assessment.

You can have three attempts to pass the assessment, and must pass both papers in the same sitting.

The pass mark is likely to be around 70 per cent, but may change depending on the difficulty of the paper. You must pass both papers in one sitting.

Gphc Pharmacy Exam pattern-

Part one

Part One is the morning paper. It is made up of 40 calculation questions, and the time allowed to complete the paper is 120 minutes (2 hours).

You will be able to use calculators in this part of the registration assessment.

You will need to bring your own calculator to the assessment. You must bring one of these models:

Casio MX-8S-WE (NB. This model is still permitted in the assessment although it is now discontinued)
Casio MX 8B-WE / MX-8B
Aurora HC133
Aurora DT210

Part two

Part two is the afternoon paper.

It has 120 questions, and the time allowed to complete the paper is 150 minutes (2.5 hours).

The paper is made up of selected response questions. This means that for each question, you will need to choose one answer from a list of options.

There will also be questions to test your number sense, but you are not allowed to use calculators for this paper.

Two question formats will be used in part two: single best answer (SBA) and extended matching questions (EMQ).

In a part two paper there will be 90 SBA questions and 30 EMQ questions.

Contact-

General Pharmaceutical Council
25 Canada Square
London
E14 5LQ