UHS PGET Pediatrics MCQs with Answers: Sample Questions & Preparation

Sample UHS PGET Pediatrics MCQs with answers and explanations, what the specialty paper covers and how to practise it for the Lahore postgraduate entrance test.

The UHS Postgraduate Entrance Test (PGET) in Lahore is the written gate to MD, MS, MDS and FCPS induction. It has two papers of 100 single-best-answer MCQs, two hours each: Paper I basic medical sciences and Paper II the specialty. This page is for candidates aiming for paediatric residency and shows a sample of Pediatrics questions with answers and one-line explanations.

What Pediatrics practice covers

The Pediatrics bank covers neonatology, growth, nutrition, genetics, infection, cardiology and neurology in children, alongside the Paper I MBBS basic-sciences core. Questions come from FCPS Part 1 and SZABMU Part-I collections plus reviewed recall material, and each keeps a source tag.

Sample MCQs

1. A child with abdominal pain is suspected of having intussusception. Which of the following is true?

A) Vomiting occurs early in presentation
B) Currant-jelly red stools are pathognomonic ✅
C) Fever excludes intussusception as a diagnosis
D) The condition occurs in under 3-month-olds in 70% of cases

Currant-jelly stool (blood and mucus) is the classic finding in intussusception, which typically occurs between 3 months and 3 years.

2. A young boy with bloody stools and joint pains has a colonoscopy showing that the rectum up to the transverse colon seems to be affected. Which drug can be used in treatment?

A) Prednisolone
B) Sulfasalazine ✅
C) Mycophenolate
D) Aspirin

Continuous inflammation from the rectum with arthropathy is ulcerative colitis, treated with 5-ASA compounds such as sulfasalazine.

3. Which of the following can cause persistent neonatal cholestasis?

A) Haemolytic disease of the newborn
B) Sickle cell anaemia
C) Hypothyroidism ✅
D) Physiological jaundice

Congenital hypothyroidism, along with biliary atresia and infections, causes prolonged conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia in neonates.

4. In patient with Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, the only curative therapy is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation which correct all the following EXCEPT

A) neuropathy ✅
B) immunologic function
C) hematopoietic function
D) natural killer cell deficiency
E) conversion to the accelerated phase

Stem cell transplantation corrects hematologic and immunologic defects but not the progressive neurologic deficits of Chédiak-Higashi syndrome.

5. A swelling in the right testis and inguinal region in a 15-year-old boy. On examination you cannot get above the swelling, however it is reducible and the ring occlusion test is positive. What is your diagnosis?

A) Direct inguinal hernia
B) Inguinal hernia
C) Indirect inguinal hernia ✅
D) Femoral hernia

A swelling that is controlled by pressure over the deep inguinal ring and descends into the scrotum is an indirect inguinal hernia, the commonest type in young males.

6. The age by which the child can make a tower of 9 cubes and imitate a circular stroke is

A) 24mo
B) 30mo ✅
C) 36mo
D) 42 mo
E) 48 mo

A 30-month-old child builds a tower of 9 cubes and imitates a circular stroke.

How to use these questions

Attempt a block of 50 questions in Tutor mode, read every explanation, then redo the ones you missed two days later. In the last two weeks switch to Timed mode with 100 questions in two hours. Dates, fees and the pass percentile change each cycle, so check the current UHS notification.

Try the full UHS PGET Pediatrics question bank, or read the PGET exam pattern guide.