BHMS IVth Year Repertory Question Bank – VVI & PYQ for Final BHMS Repertory Exam

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The BHMS IVth Year is a crucial academic phase where students are expected to demonstrate clarity in concepts, analytical skills, and practical application of repertory in clinical practice. Repertory is not merely a subject—it is a clinical tool that connects Organon, Materia Medica, and Practice of Medicine into a scientific prescribing method.

This blog provides a structured guide to the commonly asked questions in the BHMS IVth Year Repertory examination, including short answers, long answers, and important theory topics for revision.

Very Short Answer Questions (2 Marks Each)

  1. Write the definition of homeopathic repertory.
  2. Give the broad classification of homeopathic repertory.
  3. Who is called the father of repertory?
  4. What is Allen’s three-legged stool?
  5. Name two homeopathic repertory software.
  6. Give two limitations of card repertories.
  7. Define repertorial totality.
  8. What is artistic prescribing by Kent?
  9. What is pathological general symptom?
  10. What are puritan repertories?
  11. What are basic symptoms according to Garth Boericke?
  12. Which Kent’s observation is seen in irreversible cases?
  13. What is potential differential field?
  14. What are clinical rubrics?
  15. What are keynote symptoms?

Short Answer Questions

  1. Define repertory.
  2. What is prescribing symptom?
  3. What is concomitant symptom?
  4. Write the long form of RADAR.
  5. Explain the rubric “abrupt.”
  6. “Somnambulism” is given in which chapter of Kent’s Repertory?
  7. “Dreams” is given in which chapter of Kent’s Repertory?
  8. What is cross-reference rubric?
  9. Classification of symptoms according to Garth Boericke.
  10. What is keynote symptom?
  11. Who is the author of “Times of Remedies and Moon Phases”?
  12. Who is the author of Complete Repertory?
  13. Who is the author of Synthetic Repertory?
  14. ISIS is formerly known as?
  15. Who is the author of Synthesis Repertory?

Short Notes / 5 Marks Questions

  1. Boericke’s repertory.
  2. Crisis management in Borland’s pneumonia.
  3. Importance of evaluation of symptoms.
  4. Prerequisites of repertorization.
  5. Remedy differentiation.
  6. Bell’s diarrhea.
  7. Computer repertory.
  8. Importance of common symptoms.
  9. Repertory is a means and not an end in itself.
  10. Prescribing in acute cases.
  11. Totality of symptoms.
  12. Concordance repertory.

Long Answer Questions (10 Marks)

  1. Difficulties in taking a chronic case.
  2. Write in detail about prescribing symptom.
  3. Explain the uses of repertory in detail.
  4. Limitations of repertory.
  5. Describe the relation between repertory, Organon, and HMM.
  6. Importance of record keeping.
  7. Give the sources, philosophy, construction, advantages and limitations of Kent’s Repertory.
  8. Give the sources, philosophy, construction, advantages and limitations of BBCR.
  9. Advantages of repertory.
  10. Detailed classification of repertories with two examples of each.
  11. Sources of Kent’s Repertory.
  12. Philosophy of Kent’s Repertory.
  13. Construction of Kent’s Repertory.
  14. Advantages and limitations of Kent’s Repertory.
  15. Sources of BBCR.
  16. Philosophy of BBCR.
  17. Construction of BBCR.
  18. Advantages and limitations of BBCR.
  19. Analysis of symptoms according to:
  • Hahnemann
  • Kent
  • Boenninghausen
  • Garth Boericke
  1. History of repertory.
  2. Evolution of post-Kentian repertory.
  3. Deductive logic.
  4. Construction of BTPB.
  5. Grand generalization.
  6. Paucity of symptoms.
  7. Repertorial totality.
  8. Classification of repertory.
  9. Scope and utility of repertory.
  10. Cross repertorisation.

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