Drugs — Study Resources & PYQs
Definition, structures and applications of selected drugs.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- SATHEE (IIT Kanpur) - Chemistry in Everyday Life (Article) — Free IIT Kanpur government portal. Covers drug definition, drug-enzyme interaction, classification, tranquilizers and antibiotics in exam language. Highly recommended starting point.
- Vedantu - Classification of Drugs (Article) — Clean tabular classification (by pharmacological effect, drug action, chemical structure) with examples and MCQs. Good for making a one-page revision table.
- NCERT Chemistry - Chemistry in Everyday Life (Chapter PDF) (PDF) — The original NCERT chapter. Contains the standard definitions and drawn structures of tranquilizers and antibiotics that examiners expect. Keep this as the reference text.
- Classification of Drugs - Chemistry in Everyday Life (Video) — Ten-minute video on how drugs are classified (by pharmacological effect, drug action, molecular target). Sets up the whole chapter.
- Drugs, their Classification & Therapeutic Action - Physics Wallah (NCERT) (Video) — Detailed Hindi-English lecture going line by line through the NCERT chapter. Longer, but the explanation of structures and mechanisms is the clearest of the lot.
Taught in these subjects
- ADVANCED ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY — BCHT21 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- APPLIED ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY — BCHT11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Applied Engineering Chemistry — BCHT11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu