The first Postgraduate Entrance Test (PGET) was meant to give Punjab’s doctors a cleaner route into residency. The March 2026 attempt was the last JCAT, and from October 2026 admission to MD, MS, MDS and FCPS under the Central Induction Policy is through PGET. The stakes are high: PGET marks carry 75 percent weightage in the admission merit.
A week after the 25 October test, candidates across Punjab are raising concerns about how the paper was set, how it was conducted and how results were shared. Here is an overview of the main issues.
The result in numbers
UHS declared 2,131 of 8,271 candidates successful, with a 75th percentile score needed to qualify. In Medicine and Allied, 744 of 2,939 passed, while 248 of 959 qualified in Surgery and Allied Group-I. Because the cut-off is a percentile, about three in four candidates in each specialty could not pass, however well they performed. Read how the 75th percentile rule works.
1. A wrong paper at Rawalpindi
Candidates at Latif Auditorium, Rawalpindi Medical University, say about 20 doctors in Surgery and Allied Group-I received the wrong Paper II. Around question 55 they noticed questions on Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery and Cardiology. They say invigilators told them the paper was correct and to continue. Near the end of the exam they were moved to another hall, held for about an hour, and told at around 5:00 PM that they would re-sit a paper that had not yet been printed.
The paper structure explains why the error came to light only midway. In both Surgery groups, General Surgery carries 55 of the 100 Paper II questions. Group I then adds Urology, Plastic Surgery and Paediatric Surgery, while Group II adds Orthopaedics, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Neurosurgery. The affected doctors then competed on a percentile after a long and stressful day. UHS has not publicly explained what happened or how these candidates’ papers were marked.
2. Pass or Fail, but no marks
The result portal shows only “Pass” or “Fail”, with no numerical marks or percentage. One candidate reported being told by the UHS examination department that marks would be revealed only to those who apply for rechecking. UHS has opened a PGET 2026 Recount Portal, which requires a fee.
For MDCAT, by contrast, UHS put the full paper online for the first time and opened answer-key complaints, following a Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench order of 16 October 2026. No PGET paper or answer key has been published so far.
3. “The MCQs were made with ChatGPT”
Many candidates say the questions read like AI-generated text. One doctor posted on 26 October that “ChatGPT type” questions were included and that conceptually prepared candidates had wasted their time and money. Others say answers were obvious from the question stems, so prepared and unprepared candidates had a similar experience. One candidate gave an example of two consecutive Medicine Paper II questions that answered each other: one asked where ventricular septal rupture occurs (MI), and the next asked which rupture occurs in MI (ventricular septal rupture).
UHS has not confirmed using AI, and the claim remains unverified. Whoever wrote the questions, candidates’ concern is the same: in a percentile-based test, questions that give away their answers bunch scores together, so a few marks can decide who crosses the 75th percentile line.
4. Fee and validity
The PGET processing fee was Rs 10,000, non-refundable and non-transferable, and PGET will now be held twice a year. UHS has not clearly stated how long a PGET result stays valid. Some doctors have compared the new system with CPSP’s FCPS-I examination, asking whether postgraduate testing is becoming a repeated and costly process for trainees. Others note that the 75th percentile cut-off was set by the Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department, not by UHS alone.
Where things stand
As of 3 November 2026, UHS has not issued a public statement on the Rawalpindi paper mix-up, the absence of marks on the result portal, or the claims about AI-generated questions. UPMED will update this post if UHS responds.
For the exam pattern, schedule and Table of Specifications, see the UHS PGET main page.
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