UHS PGET Psychiatry MCQs with Answers: Sample Questions & Preparation

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 MD or FCPS Psychiatry and shows a sample of Psychiatry questions with answers and one-line explanations.

What Psychiatry practice covers

The Psychiatry bank covers mood and psychotic disorders, anxiety, substance use and psychopharmacology, 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. The nerve passing through the parotid gland is:

• A) Facial nerve ✅
• B) Glossopharyngeal nerve
• C) Trigeminal nerve
• D) Auriculotemporal nerve

The facial nerve (CN VII) passes through the parotid gland and divides into its terminal branches:

2. Genetic code is all EXCEPT:

• A) Triplet ✅
• B) Universal
• C) Ambiguous
• D) Degenerate

Genetic code is unambiguous-each codon codes only one amino acid

3. The phenomenon where a dead body floats after sinking is called:

• A) Adipocere formation
• B) Putrefaction
• C) Secondary rise ✅
• D) Gas bloating

After initial sinking, gas formation causes the body to rise to surface:

4. A 65-year-old man presents with resting tremors. The lesion is in?

• A) Substantia nigra ✅
• B) Subthalamic nucleus
• C) Red nucleus
• D) Cerebellum

Resting tremor is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease due to degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.

5. Which organism produces a "double zone" of hemolysis on blood agar?

• A) Clostridium difficile
• B) Clostridium tetani
• C) Clostridium perfringens ✅
• D) Clostridium botulinum

Produces alpha and theta toxins causing double hemolysis

6. Peripheral smear in iron deficiency anemia shows:

• A) Macrocytic, normochromic cells
• B) Microcytic, hypochromic cells ✅
• C) Normocytic, normochromic cells
• D) Target cells

Due to decreased hemoglobin synthesis

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 Psychiatry question bank, or read the PGET exam pattern guide.