UHS PGET Surgery & Allied (Group 1) MCQs with Answers: Sample Questions & Preparation

Sample UHS PGET Surgery & Allied (Group 1) 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 MS General Surgery and the first group of surgical specialties and shows a sample of Surgery & Allied (Group 1) questions with answers and one-line explanations.

What Surgery & Allied (Group 1) practice covers

The Surgery & Allied (Group 1) bank covers general surgery, fluids and electrolytes, sepsis, endocrine and GIT surgery and urology, 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. Thyroid follicular cells are derived embryologically from which tissue?

A) Ectoderm
B) Neural crest
C) Mesoderm
D) Endoderm of the pharyngeal floor ✅

Thyroid follicular cells arise from the endoderm of the pharyngeal (thyroid) floor.

2. Sheehan syndrome will exhibit which of the following?

A) Low gonadotropin hormone
B) All of the above ✅
C) Low prolactin
D) Low TSH
E) Low ACTH

Postpartum pituitary necrosis causes panhypopituitarism with low ACTH, TSH, gonadotropins and prolactin.

3. Which is the most common malignancy of thyroid?

A) Papillary carcinoma thyroid ✅
B) Follicular carcinoma thyroid
C) Medullary carcinoma thyroid
D) Anapalastic carcinoma thyroid

Papillary carcinoma is the most common malignancy of the thyroid overall, accounting for the majority of thyroid cancers, occurring more frequently than follicular, medullary, or anaplastic carcinoma.

4. A patient with gastric losses presents to you. What is your fluid of choice?

A) Normal saline 0.9%
B) Ringer's lactate
C) 5% dextrose water
D) Normal saline with KCl ✅

Vomiting causes hypochloraemic hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis, which is corrected with normal saline with added potassium.

5. A 50-year-old known case of peptic ulcer disease presents with multiple episodes of haematemesis. He is unstable with BP 90/50 and pulse 115/min. After initial resuscitation, what step should be done?

A) Insertion of ETT
B) Early endoscopy ✅
C) Insert Sengstaken-Blakemore tube
D) Start terlipressin

After resuscitation, upper GI endoscopy within 24 hours is the diagnostic and therapeutic step in suspected non-variceal bleeding.

6. Which is the second most common cause of intestinal obstruction?

A) Adhesions
B) Faecal impaction
C) Obstructed hernia
D) Malignancy ✅

After adhesions, malignancy (particularly colorectal carcinoma causing luminal narrowing) is the second most common overall cause of intestinal obstruction, ahead of obstructed hernia or faecal impaction.

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 Surgery & Allied (Group 1) question bank, or read the PGET exam pattern guide.