UPSSSC Pharmacist Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Eligibility

Stage one: PET

Sat in an earlier year. Its normalized score decides who's shortlisted for the main exam. Candidates whose PET result is Under Investigation or Provisional can apply and be shortlisted provisionally, subject to the Commission's enquiry.

Stage two: Veterinary Pharmacist main exam

Part 1 by topic, with the Commission's own question counts:

A blind guess on four options is worth 1(0.25) − 0.25(0.75) = 0.0625 of a mark on average, so answer anything where you can rule out an option.

Pharmacist (Ayurvedic)

The 01-Exam/2024 advertisement is no longer on the site, so its scheme can't be checked. The Commission's notice of 11 September 2026 gives a two-hour paper on 20 September 2026, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

From Advertisement No. 18-Exam/2026, approved by Personnel Section-3 letter 485/47-Ka-3-2026 of 30 June 2026. Question counts per topic are under exam pattern.

Part 1: subject knowledge, 65 questions

1. Anatomy of livestock and poultry: skeletal system, main bones and joints; digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems; urogenital and nervous systems, sense organs, superficial lymph nodes.
2. Livestock management: terminology for cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, horse, camel and pig; housing; grooming, bathing, dipping, wool shearing; care of the pregnant animal and newborn calf; dehorning and castration.
3. Breeds and economic traits: indigenous, exotic and crossbred breeds; inbreeding and crossbreeding; farm records and economics.
4. Nutrition and health: fodder types and balanced ration; deficiencies; early signs of ill health.
5. Animal physiology: functions of the organs of livestock and poultry.
6. Clinical pathology: lab equipment and sterilization; processing blood, urine and faeces.
7. Parasitology: worms and flukes; ticks, mites and lice; life cycles and deworming schedule.
8. Pharmacology: drug classes and sources; oral, injection and ointment routes; dose calculation, side effects, storage.
9. Clinical biochemistry and gynaecology: blood serum parameters; assisting in reproduction and pregnancy checks.
10. Clinical veterinary medicine: diseases of animals and poultry, diagnosis from clinical signs, prevention and control.
11. Veterinary clinical pharmacy: compounding mixtures, lotions, ointments, powders and tinctures; labelling, reading prescriptions, packing; vaccine cold chain, expiry tracking, the narcotic drugs register.
12. Surgical procedures: instruments, sterilization, the autoclave; preparing the animal; dressing, bandaging, suture care.
13. Pharmacist jurisprudence: laws on sale, storage and distribution of animal medicines in India; code of ethics.
14. Farm management and extension: cleanliness and biosecurity on dairy or poultry farms; farmer education and animal health camps.
15. Hospital practice training: emergencies, assisting the vet, managing pharmacy stock.

Part 2: computers and IT, 15 questions

History and uses of computers, IT, the internet and the web; hardware and software, input and output, IP addresses, gadgets, e-mail, printers, tablets and mobiles, MS Word and MS Excel, operating systems, social networking, e-governance; digital financial instruments; future skills and cyber security; AI, big data, deep learning, machine learning, the internet of things, and India's achievements in the field.

Part 3: Uttar Pradesh general knowledge, 20 questions

History, culture, art, architecture, festivals, folk dance, literature, regional languages, heritage, customs and tourism; geography, environment, resources, climate, soil, forests, wildlife, mines and minerals; economy, agriculture, industry, business and employment; polity and administration; current events and the state's achievements.

So 35 marks have nothing to do with pharmacy.

First, you need the right year's PET score card (PET-2025 for Veterinary Pharmacist, PET-2023 for Ayurvedic). Login is by PET registration number and OTP.

Veterinary Pharmacist qualification

Rule 8 of Part 4, UP Animal Husbandry Department Veterinary Pharmacist Service Rules, 2025:

1. High School and Intermediate with Biology from the UP board or a recognised equivalent.
2. A diploma in Veterinary Pharmacy of two years and three months from a university or institution set up by law in India.
3. Registration with the competent council, if available. The Additional Chief Secretary, Animal Husbandry Section-3, wrote on 20 May 2026 (letter I/1336367/2026) that no Veterinary Pharmacy Council exists in UP, so no registration is required.
4. Knowledge of Hindi in Devanagari script.

Rule 9 gives a tie-break preference for two years in the Territorial Army or an NCC 'B' certificate.

Age

18 to 40 on 1 July of the year the vacancies are advertised (Rule 10), not 1 January. The upper limit is raised for SC, ST and other notified categories.

Certificates

Clause 2.1 makes it your job to check qualification and age before applying; nothing is checked until document verification. Clause 2.2 requires every qualification and certificate in hand by 5 October 2026, and clause 2.3 requires caste or reservation certificates (on the advertisement's format) issued by then. A woman from UP needs a caste certificate on her father's side.

Reservation

Reservation is for SC, ST, OBC and EWS of Uttar Pradesh. EWS means family income below Rs 8 lakh (10 per cent under the UP EWS Reservation Act, 2020, notified 31 August 2020), with the certificate issued between 1 April 2026 and 5 October 2026 on 2025-26 income, valid for 2026-27, on the format of the Personnel Section-2 memo of 14 March 2019.

Women's reservation under the order of 26 February 1999 is subject to Special Appeal (D) No. 475/2019, against a High Court order of 16 January 2019.

1. PET, sat in an earlier year.
2. Online application, logged in with the PET registration number.
3. Shortlisting on the normalized PET score.
4. Main exam fee, paid only by shortlisted candidates.
5. Advance intimation of exam district, then the admit card.
6. Main exam, 100 questions in two hours.
7. Result, eligibility check and document verification. No interview.

The rules behind it: the UP Group 'C' Posts Direct Recruitment (Procedure) Rules, 2015 (11 May 2015); the Discontinuation of Interview Rules, 2017 (31 August 2017); the order of 20 November 2020 creating the two-tier system; and the 2025 Veterinary Pharmacist Service Rules.

The advertisement gives only the level and band; allowances follow state rules. Pay for Pharmacist (Ayurvedic) can't be checked, since that advertisement is off the site.

Apply online only, from the Live Advertisement section of upsssc.gov.in. The whole form can be done in one sitting.

1. Log in with your PET-2025 registration number and OTP. Your PET details fill in automatically.
2. Add the post-specific details and qualifications.
3. Pay Rs 25. The form submits itself once the bank adjusts the payment.
4. Print and keep the form for document verification.

Horizontal categories pay by original category. The exam fee is charged later, only to shortlisted candidates.

Watch the bank adjustment. Applications close 5 October 2026, but you can't print until the fee is adjusted, which must happen by 12 October 2026. Pay early.

Until 12 October you can edit, via the Applicant's Dashboard with an OTP, only: correspondence address, EWS and horizontal categories, qualification details, and marital status.

The Commission also runs a One Time Registration whose details carry into later applications.

UPSSSC runs the exam and declares results. The employing department requisitions posts, sets qualifications through its service rules, verifies documents and appoints.

Group A and B posts go through the UP Public Service Commission instead, and institutions such as SGPGIMS, KGMU and RMLIMS hire their own pharmacists.

The advertisement lists no exam cities. Shortlisted candidates who've paid the main exam fee get an Advance Intimation of Examination District on upsssc.gov.in and the Commission's mobile app. It isn't the admit card. The Veterinary Pharmacist exam date will be notified later (clause 8).

Cycles are slow: the Ayurvedic one was advertised in 2024 on a 2023 PET and sat its paper in 2026.

Pay the main exam fee first; nothing shows until you do. Then download the district intimation, then the admit card when the Commission announces it. Both are on upsssc.gov.in, which has separate links for main and PET versions, so pick the right one. A valid admit card is compulsory.

Results are a per-candidate lookup on the results page and the Applicant's Dashboard. Selection is on the written exam alone, followed by eligibility checking and document verification. Provisional PET candidates can still have results reversed after the enquiry.

Once applications close, follow Current Status of Published Advertisements against your advertisement number. On 12 September 2026 that stream carried notices for Lekhpal (02-Exam/2025), Naksha Navis and Manchitrak (11-Exam/2023), Forensic Science (15-Exam/2026), Forest Guard (12-Exam/2026), Stenographer (13-Exam/2024), Health Worker (11-Exam/2024) and Pharmacist (Ayurvedic). The Notifications and Advertisements page then carried 17-Exam/2026 and 20-Exam/2026, neither for pharmacists.

UPSSSC publishes no cut-off marks for this exam. Results are a per-candidate lookup, and the result panel had no cut-off table on 12 September 2026. The only stated threshold is that a zero or negative PET score isn't shortlisted.

Your own position shows on the Applicant's Dashboard; notices for each cycle appear under Current Status of Published Advertisements.

For a sense of scale: answering all 100 with 70 right gives 70 − 7.5 = 62.5; 60 right gives 50; 80 attempted with 60 right gives 55; 80 attempted with 55 right gives 55 − 6.25 = 48.75.

• Sit the PET every year. It's both the entry ticket and the ranking for shortlisting.
• Don't neglect the 35 non-pharmacy marks. UP general knowledge and computers are bounded and reward reading.
• Use the topic counts as a plan. Each Part 1 topic carries 3 to 5 questions, so skip none.
• Clinical pharmacy and jurisprudence are ten marks a working pharmacist mostly knows already.
• Answer almost everything. A guess is worth about 0.06 of a mark on average.
• Practise under real marking: 100 questions, 120 minutes, minus 0.25 per wrong answer. Past PET papers are the best general practice.
• Get certificates in hand before 5 October, and confirm the bank has adjusted your fee.

No previous year papers or answer keys for any pharmacist cadre are available as of now. The Commission's answer key page and syllabus page were empty on 12 September 2026. Check them after the main exam, since that's where keys appear.

The advertisement, on Notifications and Advertisements while applications are open, carries the full syllabus.

• UPSSSC official website
• Notifications and Advertisements (open windows only)
• Current Status of Published Advertisements
• One Time Registration: modify, print
• Main exam district intimation and admit card
• PET district intimation and admit card
• Results
• Application status, registration number, roll number
• Syllabus against post and answer key against post
• About the Commission
• Grievances and contact changes

Is there a single UPSSSC Pharmacist exam?

No. Each department's cadre is advertised and examined separately.

Can I apply without the PET?

No. You need the right year's PET score card.

Is there negative marking?

Yes, one quarter of a mark per wrong answer.

Do I need council registration?

No. There's no Veterinary Pharmacy Council in Uttar Pradesh.

What is the age limit?

18 to 40 on 1 July of the advertisement year.

What does the application cost?

Rs 25 for every category. The exam fee comes later, only if you're shortlisted.

Are any posts reserved for persons with disability?

No, none of the 1,308.

Is there an interview?

No. Selection is on the written exam.

My PET result says Under Investigation. Can I apply?

Yes, provisionally, subject to the enquiry.

Why can't I print my application?

The bank hasn't adjusted the fee yet. That must happen by 12 October 2026.