DPEE Exam Registration, exam centers, last date, timing, new syllabus

DPEE Exit exam (Diploma in Pharmacy Exit exam) registrations starts from 24th August till 13th September and the exam will be held from 3rd to 5th October 2024 announced NBEMS today on their site. Please go through the following important changes and follow the dpee exam registration guidelines carefully.

DPEE Syllabus increased by 3 additional subjects

All the earlier announcement by PCI on their website mentioned only 8 subjects but as per the new registration guidelines and syllabus the number of subjects now stand at 11. Basically All subjects of D. Pharmacy 1st year and 2nd Year are now included.

The list is given below : (actually it is everything we studied in the 1st and 2nd year)

1. Pharmaceutics
2. Pharmacology
3. Pharmacognosy
4. Pharmaceutical Chemistry
5. Biochemistry
6. Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy
7. Pharmacy Law & Ethics (Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence) (renamed)
8. Community Pharmacy Management / Drug Store Management (syllabus increased & renamed)
9. Human Anatomy and Physiology (new)
10. Pharmacotherapeutics (new)
11. Social Pharmacy (new)

Renamed DPEE Subjects :

Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence is now named as Pharmacy Law and Ethics (which is correct as per the PCI ER 2020). Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence was legacy name of the same subject for older PCI educational regulations. Similarly, Drug Store Management, which was a full subject in older PCI ER’s is now mentioned as Community Pharmacy Management in the announcement made at NBEMS site. These changes are welcome changes as they reflect the currently used Subject names of the D. Pharmacy Syllabus as per PCI ER 2020.

Syllabus Changes :

1. Drug Store Management was basically last chapter of the Community Pharmacy Management Subject. But now, the whole Subject (book) is included in the syllabus for the Community Pharmacy Management. More burden to students
2. New Subjects : Human Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacotherapeutics and Social Pharmacy are now included as per the NBEMS announcement. This takes the total count of subjects from 8 to 11.
3. Practical Syllabus added for Pharmacotherapeutics : soap notes and patient counselling exercises for the given clinical cases as mentioned in pharmacotherapeutics practical (PCI education regulations 2020) to be considered for the said examination
4. So we are looking at around 30+ more chapters to study.

Important Dates :

Other Dates

DPEE Exam Centers list across India

A Total of 140 Cities across India are listed, where the exam center / centers would be located.

Exit Exam or Screening Test ?

Subject wise Weightage

What does this DPEE (Screening Test) Blue print means?

1. It is confusing and may be NBEMS needs to avoid calling it screening as exit exam is now more familiar and accepted term.
2. Does 40 marks means 40 questions? If so, then just say Distribution of questions and each question is 1 mark each.
3. Number of questions per subject make no sense, For Example if you say 20 marks for pharmaceutics, it means nothing, I still have to read the whole pharmaceutic book to get those 20 marks. They could have simply said, on 3rd October there would be questions from these 4 subjects for a total of 150 marks, try getting 50% marks to pass.
4. It is not distribution of marks, it is distribution of questions.

Disregard to PCI ER 2020 regulations :

1. As per PCI ER 2020, each chapter is assigned number of hours for teaching and based on it weightage is assigned for questions to be asked in exam. For example, Chapter 1 has 30 hours teaching and marks allotted 10 and chapter 2 with 10 hrs teaching with 12 marks allotted. I would rather read chapter 2 to get 12 marks to cover more syllabus in less time and still get more marks. In this NBEMS blue print, one has to read every chapter now irrespective of weightage / importance.
2. We have had 1-3 days gap between each exam to prepare and here it is expected to study 3-4 subjects in depth from two different year and give 3 hourly exam daily for 3 days.
3. 3 days 3 different papers of multiple subjects together? No other exam in India runs for 3 days. But here we are.
4. Nothing from this announcement seems closer to reality.
5. Government Gazette for PCI said Exit Exam will be conducted, NBEMS places the whole thing under screening test. Without defining what is screening test and how it applies to Exit exam for D. Pharma.
6. Government Gazette for DPEE (page 4 point 6) says Drug Store Management as subject in syllabus – Which is basically last chapter of Community Pharmacy Management. Here, that has been changed to the whole subject. Gazette does not list Human Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacotherapeutics and social pharmacy. But here it is added without announcement. In short they included full combined syllabus of both the academic years.

DPEE Exam Registration links :

How does this affect DPEE.in content?

1. We have already started generating MCQ’s for the new 3 subjects and expanded syllabus of Community Pharmacy & Management.
2. It would be a while before all are added to the site.
3. We would be updating the site daily for the new MCQ’s.
4. We released our e-book 2-3 days back and now it is outdated, So are the books of other authors / publisher.
5. We are not sure if we would be able to roll out print copy of our book on time for students to benefit.
6. We do not recycle B. Pharma or other competitive exam questions and our questions are curated page by page, chapter by chapter for each subject, so it takes time.
7. PCI should have updated the change in the syllabus ahead of time, thereby giving us all time to prepare well.
8. The demo test by NBEMS from 30th September onwards would be very helpful to understand how the exam would be, but it would not allow much time to improve any approach to the studies as only two days gap between their demo and actual exam.
9. Please go ahead with the DPEE Exam Registration carefully, it it multi step process with very specific requirements.