Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 925 original practice questions covering the full scope of a college pharmacology course, organized chapter by chapter — and it opens soon. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s Pharmacology program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a college pharmacology course — most often nursing, allied-health, and science students meeting drug therapy for the first time as a formal subject. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The bank holds 925 original questions across 16 chapters plus two cross-chapter sets, covering how drugs move through the body and act on it, autonomic and central nervous system drugs, cardiovascular and endocrine drugs, anti-infective agents, and the drugs used in inflammation, immunity, and cancer. There is no licensing exam at the end of a pharmacology course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of the college pharmacology course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch. The bank’s keys were checked against FDA labeling and standard pharmacology references during the college build lane’s quality control. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
It keys drug knowledge and mechanisms — not dose calculations. The questions test what a drug is, how it works, what it is used for, how the body handles it, and what can go wrong with it. They do not ask you to calculate doses. If your course tests dosage calculation, that is a separate skill your instructor will teach and test on its own terms; this program covers the drug-knowledge foundation those calculations sit on.
What’s included
925 questions, organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 16-chapter structure that mirrors the standard pharmacology course, from drug development, regulation, and names through pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, the major drug classes organized by body system, and anti-infective and cancer therapy — plus a 44-question Applied and Integrated Topics set and a 99-question Synthesis and Applied Integration set that combine concepts across chapters the way cumulative exam questions do. The full chapter-by-chapter counts are in the coverage table below — counted from the bank itself, question by question.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the autonomic lectures? Drill Chapter 6. Cardiovascular exam in ten days? Work Chapters 9 and 10 in sequence, the way your course presents them.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different pharmacology textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single cardiovascular unit is another book’s three chapters. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so “Chapter 9” in your practice means Chapter 9 in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, pharmacokinetics, or antibacterial agents — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
The course at a glance
Pharmacology has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what a pharmacology course covers and how to study it, see our Pharmacology study guide.
| College pharmacology — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | College course (commonly taken by nursing, allied-health, pharmacy-track, and science students) |
| Standard scope | Drug development, regulation, and names; pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics and drug interactions; adverse drug reactions and medication safety; individual variation in drug response; autonomic, central nervous system, cardiovascular, endocrine, respiratory and allergy, and gastrointestinal drugs; anti-infective agents; anti-inflammatory, immune, and cancer drugs |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | 925 original questions across 16 chapters + Applied and Integrated Topics + Synthesis and Applied Integration |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
Every question in the bank carries the chapter it belongs to. Counts below are the bank itself, counted question by question from the delivered file — they sum to 925.
| Chapter | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1: Introduction to Pharmacology: Development, Regulation, and Names | 45 |
| Chapter 2: Pharmacokinetics | 47 |
| Chapter 3: Pharmacodynamics and Drug Interactions | 52 |
| Chapter 4: Adverse Drug Reactions and Medication Safety | 44 |
| Chapter 5: Individual Variation in Drug Response | 46 |
| Chapter 6: Autonomic Nervous System Drugs | 47 |
| Chapter 7: Central Nervous System Drugs I: Movement, Seizure, and Sleep | 52 |
| Chapter 8: Central Nervous System Drugs II: Mood, Psychosis, and Pain | 43 |
| Chapter 9: Cardiovascular Drugs I: Heart Failure, Angina, and Dysrhythmias | 54 |
| Chapter 10: Cardiovascular Drugs II: Hypertension, Lipids, and Hemostasis | 48 |
| Chapter 11: Endocrine Drugs: Diabetes, Thyroid, and Adrenal | 54 |
| Chapter 12: Respiratory and Allergy Drugs | 48 |
| Chapter 13: Gastrointestinal Drugs | 47 |
| Chapter 14: Anti-Infective Drugs I: Antibacterial Agents | 53 |
| Chapter 15: Anti-Infective Drugs II: Antiviral, Antifungal, and Antiparasitic Agents | 48 |
| Chapter 16: Anti-Inflammatory, Immune, and Cancer Drugs | 54 |
| Applied and Integrated Topics (cross-chapter) | 44 |
| Synthesis and Applied Integration (cross-chapter) | 99 |
| Total | 925 |
Three blocks deserve a note. The foundations come first and stay useful (Chapters 1–5, 234 questions): pharmacokinetics — how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes a drug — and pharmacodynamics — what the drug does to the body — are the vocabulary every later chapter spends, so the bank builds them before it spends them. The system chapters are evenly deep (Chapters 6–16, 548 questions): no drug class is treated as a throwaway, because courses test each class on its own exam as it arrives. The Synthesis and Applied Integration set (99 questions), together with the 44 Applied and Integrated Topics questions, deliberately combines chapters — a mechanism from Chapter 3 explaining an interaction in Chapter 10, a safety principle from Chapter 4 applied to a drug in Chapter 14 — because that is how harder exam questions are actually written.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Pharmacology, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Learn each drug class as a mechanism, not a list. For every class, fix its prototype drug, its mechanism of action, its main uses, and its characteristic adverse effects — then hang the other drugs in the class on that frame. Your chapter breakdown will show you which classes the frame is not yet holding.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the synthesis sets before midterms and finals. The Applied and Integrated Topics and Synthesis and Applied Integration questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to September.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Pharmacology is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official pharmacology exam to prepare for. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the tests your own instructor gives, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the college course. It also does not prepare you, by itself, for any part of a nursing or other licensing examination.
How many practice questions are in the Pharmacology program? 925 questions. They are organized into 16 chapters — from Chapter 1, Introduction to Pharmacology: Development, Regulation, and Names, through Chapter 16, Anti-Inflammatory, Immune, and Cancer Drugs — plus a 44-question Applied and Integrated Topics set and a 99-question Synthesis and Applied Integration set that combine concepts across chapters. The chapter-by-chapter counts are published in the coverage table on this page and were counted directly from the question bank.
How does the textbook selector work? When the program opens, you first pick your course — Pharmacology — and then pick the textbook and edition your class uses. That selection tells the program how to organize the simulations: the bank is mapped onto your book’s chapter order, so chapter drills and simulation exams line up with the chapters as your syllabus presents them.
Is this program affiliated with my textbook’s publisher or author? No. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author, it is not branded under any textbook’s name, and it contains no textbook text and no publisher test-bank material. Your textbook selection is used only to organize your practice by chapter.
Where did the questions come from? They were written from scratch for this program. The bank was built from the published structure of the college pharmacology course — its standard chapter sequence and topic scope — and its keys were checked against FDA labeling and standard pharmacology references before delivery through the college build lane’s quality control. No question is copied or adapted from a textbook, a test bank, or another provider.
What topics does the program cover? The standard scope of college pharmacology: drug development, regulation, and names; pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics and drug interactions; adverse drug reactions and medication safety; individual variation in drug response; autonomic nervous system drugs; central nervous system drugs (movement, seizure, and sleep; mood, psychosis, and pain); cardiovascular drugs (heart failure, angina, and dysrhythmias; hypertension, lipids, and hemostasis); endocrine drugs for diabetes, thyroid, and adrenal conditions; respiratory and allergy drugs; gastrointestinal drugs; antibacterial agents; antiviral, antifungal, and antiparasitic agents; and anti-inflammatory, immune, and cancer drugs.
Does the program include dosage calculations? No. The bank keys drug knowledge and mechanisms — what a drug is, how it works, what it treats, how the body handles it, and its characteristic adverse effects and interactions. It contains no dose-calculation questions. If your course includes a dosage-calculation component, treat it as the separate skill it is; the drug knowledge in this program is the foundation underneath it.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters, so your practice can match a single chapter test, a multi-chapter unit exam, or a cumulative final.
What are the Applied and Integrated Topics and Synthesis questions? They are 143 questions in two sets that combine material from more than one chapter — for example, how a drug’s metabolism in the liver explains both its duration of action and its interaction with a second drug. Graded exams, especially midterms and finals, reward exactly this kind of connected understanding, so the bank practices it directly rather than only chapter by chapter.
Will this match my instructor’s exam exactly? No honest program can promise that — your instructor writes your exams, chooses the emphasis, and sets the format. What this program matches is the chapter organization and subject scope of your course, so the material you rehearse is the material your course teaches, organized the way your textbook presents it.
When can I start using the Pharmacology program? Soon — the 925-question bank is complete and quality-checked, and the program is in final preparation. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of the college pharmacology course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. This program is educational study material, not clinical guidance: drug information changes, and current FDA labeling governs real prescribing and administration decisions. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.