UPSSSC Veterinary Pharmacist Syllabus and Exam Pattern

Compiled from the official syllabus · check it against the official link

One paper, 100 questions, and a quarter-mark penalty ↑

The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission published Advertisement No. 18-Exam/2026 on 14 August 2026, inviting applications for 308 Veterinary Pharmacist posts under the Directorate of Animal Husbandry. Paragraph 9 of that advertisement carries the examination scheme and the complete syllabus, and this page carries every entry in it.

The advertisement is on the Commission's own website, upsssc.gov.in, and it prints the whole syllabus twice — once in Hindi on its pages 9 to 13, and again in English on pages 13 to 17 of 32. Nothing on this page depends on our translation of a topic name, because the Commission supplied both versions itself.

The single most useful line in the advertisement is the one that says the basis of selection is the written examination. There is no interview and no skill test in this recruitment. The 100 marks set out below are the entire competition.

The scheme and syllabus were approved by the Uttar Pradesh Government, Personnel Section-3, letter number 485/47-ka-3-2026 dated 30 June 2026, which the advertisement cites when it prints them. The date of the examination itself is not in the advertisement; it says it will be intimated in due course.

The three parts, and how the 100 marks are split ↑

The paper has three parts and they are not equal. Part-1 is the veterinary subject and it is most of the paper. Part-2 is computer and information technology. Part-3 is general information about Uttar Pradesh. All three are answered inside the same two hours; the advertisement sets no separate time for any part.

One number in the table below is ours, not the Commission's, and it is marked so. The advertisement prints a question count against each of the fifteen Part-1 topics, and it prints the grand total of 100, but it never prints a Part-1 subtotal. Adding the fifteen printed rows gives 65, which is consistent with the printed 15 for Part-2 and 20 for Part-3. If you ever quote a figure to anyone, quote the fifteen individual rows, because those are the ones actually printed.

Part-1: all fifteen topics, with the marks the Commission set against each ↑

This is the table that should decide your study plan, because the Commission has already weighted the subject for you. Each question carries one mark, so the question count and the mark count are the same number in every row.

Counting the rows above — and this count is ours, not printed — eight of the fifteen topics carry 5 marks each, four carry 4 marks each, and three carry 3 marks each. The eight heavier topics are livestock management, breeds and economic traits, nutrition and health, pharmacology, clinical veterinary medicine, veterinary clinical pharmacy, pharmacist jurisprudence, and farm management and extensions. If your time is short, that is the list to start from.

Notice what the weighting is telling you. Pharmacology, clinical pharmacy and jurisprudence together are worth more than anatomy and physiology together. This is a pharmacist's paper, not a veterinarian's.

At a glance

Part-1 topics 1 to 5: the animal, and how it is kept ↑

The first five topics move from the body of the animal outward to the farm it lives on. Added up they come to 23 of the Part-1 marks — that sum is ours, like the 65 above, not a figure the Commission prints — and none of these five needs a laboratory to study.

The scope column below rewrites what the syllabus lists, in ordinary words. The wording is ours; the content is the Commission's, and every item in it appears in paragraph 9 of the advertisement.

Part-1 topics 6 to 10: the laboratory, the drug and the disease ↑

These five topics are the clinical middle of the paper and come to 20 marks by our own addition of the printed rows. This is where a candidate who has only read a book, and never handled a sample or a syringe, starts losing marks.

Topic 10 needs one honest note. In the English printing on page 16 of the advertisement, its scope reads identification on the basis of grass physical examination physiological parameter and their method. The word grass is plainly a misprint for gross. The Hindi printing of the same topic, on page 12, is unambiguous: identification and examination methods on the basis of physical examination and physical signs. We have written the scope below from the Hindi, which is the clear version, and told you about the misprint rather than quietly tidying it away.

Part-1 topics 11 to 15: the pharmacy bench and the hospital floor ↑

The last five topics are the job description turned into a syllabus, and they come to 22 marks by our own addition — more than any other block of five. Compounding, dispensing, inventory, surgical assistance, law, extension work and polyclinic practice.

If you have worked in a veterinary pharmacy, this is the block where your experience is worth marks. If you have not, read these five as a description of a working day rather than as chapters.

Part-2: Computer and Information Technology, 15 marks, the full list ↑

Part-2 carries 15 questions for 15 marks. The advertisement prints it as five items, the second of which opens into eight sub-items. There is no mark against any individual item — only the part total of 15 — so anyone showing you a topic-wise breakdown of Part-2 has made it up.

This is the same computer syllabus the Commission uses across its recruitments, and it is shallow on purpose. It asks whether you can use a computer and name its parts, not whether you can program one.

• History, Introduction and Application of Computer, Information Technology, Internet and World Wide Web (WWW).
• General Knowledge related to: Hardware and Software; Input and Output; Internet Protocol / IP Address; IT gadgets and their application; Creation of e-mail ID and use or operation of e-mail; Operation of Printer, Tablet and Mobile; Important elements of Word Processing (MS-Word) and Excel Processing (MS-Excel); Operating System, Social Networking, e-Governance.
• Digital Financial Tools and Applications.
• Future Skills and Cyber Security.
• Technological Development and Innovation in the field of Computer and Information Technology — Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Processing, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Internet of Things — and India's achievements in this field.

Part-3: General information related to Uttar Pradesh, 20 marks ↑

Part-3 carries 20 questions for 20 marks — a fifth of the paper, and the part most candidates under-prepare because it looks like general knowledge. It is not general knowledge. Every subject named below is specifically about Uttar Pradesh.

The advertisement names 24 subjects in one sentence and closes with the word etcetera, so the list is indicative rather than closed. Here they are, separated out.

• History
• Culture
• Art
• Architecture
• Festivals
• Folk Dance
• Literature
• Regional Languages
• Heritage
• Social Customs and Tourism
• Geographical Landscape and Environment
• Natural Resources
• Climate
• Soil
• Forest
• Wildlife
• Mines and Minerals
• Economy
• Agriculture
• Industry
• Business and Employment
• Polity
• Administration of Uttar Pradesh
• Current Events and Achievements of Uttar Pradesh State in various fields

How you reached this paper: PET-2025, and the 15-times shortlist ↑

This is a Main Exam. Only candidates who sat the Preliminary Eligibility Test 2025 and hold its score card may apply, and shortlisting for the written examination is done on the normalised PET-2025 score, in order of merit.

The advertisement is specific about how many are called. Category-wise, candidates numbering 15 times the posts advertised are shortlisted for the written examination, and everyone holding the normalised score at the last cut-off — measured to 02 decimal places — is included, so the actual number called can exceed that.

Two limits are worth knowing before you count on a call letter. A candidate whose absolute or normalised PET-2025 score is zero, less than zero, or negative is not shortlisted at all. And candidates marked Under Investigation or Provisional in the PET-2025 result may apply provisionally, but their shortlisting and selection stay subject to the outcome of the Commission's own inquiry.

If the written examination runs across more than one shift or day, the advertisement states that scores will be normalised for comparative evaluation under the provisions of Essential Information No. 42/05/Vigya Anu (Eleven)/2019, published on 22 May 2019.

Who may sit this examination, and what it costs ↑

The qualification is set by Part-4 Rule-8 of the Uttar Pradesh Animal Husbandry Department Veterinary Pharmacist Service Rules, 2025. A candidate needs High School and the Intermediate examination with Biology from the Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh, or an examination recognised as equivalent by the Government; a diploma of 02 years 03 months in Veterinary Pharmacy from a university or institution established by law in India; and knowledge of Hindi in Devanagari script.

The Rules also require registration with the competent council or institute, if available. The advertisement then records, citing the Additional Chief Secretary, Animal Husbandry Section-3 letter dated 20 May 2026, that no Veterinary Pharmacy Council presently exists in Uttar Pradesh for registering veterinary pharmacists — so registration is not required. That single sentence has confused a lot of candidates; it is in the advertisement in plain terms.

Age is governed by Rule-10 of the same Rules: the candidate must have attained 18 years and must not have attained more than 40 years on the first of July of the calendar year in which the vacancies are advertised. The upper limit is higher by as many years as specified for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other categories notified by the Government.

Preference in direct recruitment, other things being equal, goes to a candidate who has served at least two years in the Territorial Army, or who holds a 'B' certificate of the National Cadet Corps.

The fee is the same for every category. There is no application fee at all; only an online process fee of 25.00 rupees is charged. Dependants of freedom fighters, ex-servicemen, women, persons with disabilities and outstanding sportspersons pay the fee of their own original category, which is the same 25.00 rupees.

What this advertisement does not tell you — and we will not invent ↑

A syllabus paragraph defines scope. It does not answer every question a candidate has, and the honest thing is to name the gaps instead of filling them with a confident guess.

For each of the following, the advertisement itself and upsssc.gov.in are the only sources worth trusting.

• The examination date. The advertisement says only that the date of the examination will be intimated in due course.
• Any topic-wise breakdown inside Part-2 or Part-3. Only the part totals of 15 and 20 are printed. The individual items carry no marks of their own, and any table that gives them marks is somebody's estimate.
• A Part-1 subtotal. The fifteen topic rows are printed and the grand total of 100 is printed. The 65 in between is our own addition, and we have said so wherever it appears.
• Any cut-off. Neither the PET-2025 shortlisting cut-off nor the final selection cut-off is in the advertisement; both depend on vacancies and on how candidates actually perform, and are published afterwards.
• Any book list. The Commission prescribes a syllabus, not textbooks. A topic list is not a reading list.
• The medium of the question paper. Paragraph 9, which carries the scheme and the syllabus, does not state in which language or languages the questions will be set.
• Which statutes Pharmacist Jurisprudence covers. The syllabus says laws governing the sale, storage and distribution of animal medicines in India, and names no Act.

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