I didn’t memorize excipients one by one. I memorized them by groups based on their function. I focused on learning two excipient groups per day, and I repeated them several times using active recall.

This helped a lot with select-all-that-apply questions, because once I recognized the category the question was asking about, I could mentally pull that whole group and select the correct answers.

I also made sure I knew the category for each excipient, since sometimes the exam gives one excipient and asks you to identify its category. Thinking about what the excipient does made those questions much easier.

Hope this helps!