Sample questions by topic

55 topics across the five content areas of the Overseas Pharmacist Readiness Assessment (OPRA®), three worked questions each.

Therapeutics and patient care · about 45% of the exam

• Australian pharmacy practice and law60 questions in the app
• Cardiovascular therapeutics88 questions in the app
• CNS and psychiatry60 questions in the app
• Counselling, OTC and triage60 questions in the app
• Dermatology40 questions in the app
• Diabetes and endocrine therapeutics68 questions in the app
• Eye, ear, nose and throat20 questions in the app
• Gastrointestinal therapeutics51 questions in the app
• Infectious diseases75 questions in the app
• Musculoskeletal40 questions in the app
• Older people and polypharmacy40 questions in the app
• Oncology and supportive care31 questions in the app
• Paediatrics40 questions in the app
• Pain and palliative care51 questions in the app
• Pharmaceutical calculations80 questions in the app
• Renal and urology40 questions in the app
• Respiratory therapeutics60 questions in the app
• Vaccines and immunisation40 questions in the app
• Women's health40 questions in the app

Biomedical sciences · about 20% of the exam

• Cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology40 questions in the app
• Cell biology and biochemistry40 questions in the app
• Endocrine physiology40 questions in the app
• Gastrointestinal physiology31 questions in the app
• Haematology40 questions in the app
• Immunology40 questions in the app
• Microbiology60 questions in the app
• Musculoskeletal and skin20 questions in the app
• Neurophysiology40 questions in the app
• Renal physiology and fluid balance40 questions in the app
• Reproductive physiology20 questions in the app
• Respiratory physiology and pathophysiology35 questions in the app

Pharmacology and toxicology · about 15% of the exam

• Adverse drug reactions20 questions in the app
• Analgesics and anti-inflammatories40 questions in the app
• Antimicrobial pharmacology40 questions in the app
• Autonomic pharmacology40 questions in the app
• Cardiovascular pharmacology40 questions in the app
• Chemotherapy and immunomodulators20 questions in the app
• CNS pharmacology40 questions in the app
• Endocrine pharmacology31 questions in the app
• Respiratory and gastrointestinal pharmacology20 questions in the app
• Toxicology and antidotes40 questions in the app

Medicinal chemistry and biopharmaceutics · about 10% of the exam

• Dosage form design40 questions in the app
• Drug stability and degradation40 questions in the app
• Functional groups and drug classes35 questions in the app
• Pharmaceutical excipients20 questions in the app
• Solubility and partitioning20 questions in the app
• Sterile products20 questions in the app
• Structure-activity relationships40 questions in the app

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics · about 10% of the exam

• Absorption and bioavailability31 questions in the app
• Distribution and protein binding20 questions in the app
• Excretion and clearance20 questions in the app
• Metabolism and cytochrome P45040 questions in the app
• Pharmacokinetic calculations60 questions in the app
• Receptor pharmacodynamics20 questions in the app
• Dosing in special populations33 questions in the app