As of today, the UPSSSC Pharmacist Main Exam admit card has already been released and the exam is scheduled for tomorrow, 29 June 2026. The answer key, result, and final selection cut-off have not been released yet — they will only come after tomorrow’s exam.
UPSSSC Pharmacist Admit Card 2026 Overview
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Recruiting Body | Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) |
| Post Name | Pharmacist (Bheshajik) |
| Department | Directorate of Medical & Health Services, Uttar Pradesh |
| Advertisement No. | 01-Exam/2026 (01-परीक्षा/2026), dated 28 February 2026 |
| Total Vacancies | 560 |
| Main Exam Date | 29 June 2026 |
| Admit Card Status | Released |
| Official Website | upsssc.gov.in |
This recruitment has had an unusually eventful timeline for a single exam cycle — a rescheduled exam date, a separate exam-city slip before the actual admit card, and an admit-card release date that itself slipped past its first announced schedule. Each of these is worth understanding on its own, because conflating any two of them is exactly where candidates trip up.
Notification 2026 Recap
UPSSSC released the Pharmacist (Bheshajik) notification on 28 February 2026 under Advertisement No. 01-Exam/2026, inviting applications for 560 vacancies under the Directorate of Medical & Health Services. Online applications were accepted from 9 March to 29 March 2026, with a correction window open until 5 April 2026. Eligibility required a valid normalised score in UPSSSC’s Preliminary Eligibility Test (PET) 2025, a Diploma in Pharmacy (D.Pharm) — B.Pharm holders are also commonly accepted under such notifications — and registration with the State Pharmacy Council, Uttar Pradesh.
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Important Dates 2026
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Notification released | 28 February 2026 |
| Online application window | 9 March – 29 March 2026 |
| Application correction window | Till 5 April 2026 |
| PET-2025 Eligibility Result declared | 18 May 2026 |
| Main Exam fee payment notice | 2 June 2026 |
| Exam City Intimation Slip issued | Around 20 June 2026 |
| Original Main Exam date | 21 June 2026 |
| Revised Main Exam date | 29 June 2026 |
| Admit card released | 25 June 2026 |
| Answer key, result, final cut-off | Not yet released |
The exam was moved from 21 June to 29 June 2026 after UPSSSC’s official notice cited a clash with the proposed NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination on the same date. That eight-day shift is also why some earlier articles still floating online quote 21 June as the exam date — they were written before the change and never got updated.
Eligibility Recap: Who Could Even Reach the Admit-Card Stage
Not every PET-2025 candidate who applied for this post is eligible for an admit card. Two separate conditions had to be met first. UPSSSC declared the Pharmacist Eligibility Result on 18 May 2026, shortlisting 25,859 candidates against the 560 vacancies — roughly 15 times the vacancy count, a ratio that also absorbed every candidate tied exactly at the cut-off score. Candidates with zero or negative PET scores were dropped at this stage regardless of any other qualification.
Second, only those among the shortlisted 25,859 who completed the Main Exam fee payment, per UPSSSC’s notice dated 2 June 2026, became eligible to actually download the admit card. Being on the eligibility list and paying the mains fee are two different actions, and missing the second one quietly removes a shortlisted candidate from the exam without any further notice beyond that original payment deadline.
PET-2025 Eligibility Cut-Off (Not the Final Selection Cut-Off)
Worth separating clearly, because this number gets mistaken for the final Pharmacist cut-off fairly often. The category-wise cut-off released alongside the 18 May eligibility result was only the PET-2025 screening threshold used to decide who gets to sit the Main Exam — not the marks needed to actually get selected for the 560 posts.
As released by UPSSSC, the Unreserved, SC, OBC, and EWS categories shared an identical PET cut-off of 10.25, while the ST category cut-off was considerably lower at 2.29. These figures say nothing about how high the Main Exam cut-off will eventually be; that number depends on how 25,859 candidates actually perform tomorrow, and won’t exist until UPSSSC processes the result.
How to Download the Admit Card
- Go to the official website, upsssc.gov.in — not a third-party mirror site.
- Locate the Pharmacist Main Examination Admit Card 2026 link, typically under the Notice Board or Admit Card section on the homepage.
- Log in using your Registration Number and Password. A few reports describe the login field as Date of Birth instead of Password — if one combination doesn’t work, try the other before assuming there’s a technical fault.
- Submit the form to view your admit card on screen.
- Verify every printed detail immediately — name, roll number, exam date, exam centre, and reporting time.
- Download the PDF and take at least two printouts: one to submit at the centre, one to keep for yourself.
If you only have the Exam City Intimation Slip issued around 20 June and haven’t separately downloaded the full admit card released on 25 June, you do not have a valid entry document. The city slip tells you which city you’ve been allotted; it does not carry your exam centre, roll number, or reporting time, and centres do not accept it as a substitute for the actual admit card.
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Details to Verify on the Admit Card
Report any mismatch to UPSSSC immediately rather than waiting until exam day — corrections on the morning of the exam are not realistically possible.
- Candidate’s name and photograph
- Roll number and registration number
- Exam date, reporting time, and gate-closing time
- Exam centre name and address
- Category and PwD status, if applicable
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Documents and Items to Carry
- Printed admit card (carry two copies)
- A valid original photo ID — Aadhaar Card, PAN Card, or Voter ID
- Passport-size photographs, in the format specified on the admit card
Mobile phones, smartwatches, fitness bands, calculators, and any other electronic gadgets are barred from the exam hall, along with valuables like jewellery. Arriving 30–45 minutes before the stated gate-closing time gives enough buffer for security checks and seat allotment without rushing.
Exam Pattern 2026
The Main Examination is a single objective-type paper of 100 questions, conducted in OMR or computer-based mode depending on the centre, with 0.25 marks deducted for every wrong answer. The paper draws from core pharmacy subjects alongside a fixed UPSSSC-standard section on computer and information technology awareness and contemporary technological developments — a component that appears across most UPSSSC Group-C mains exams, not something specific to Pharmacist alone, so don’t skip revising it just because it feels unrelated to pharmacy.
Syllabus 2026
Core coverage centres on pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacology, pharmacy laws and regulations, drug formulations, and patient counselling principles relevant to a working pharmacist, alongside the general computer/IT and current-technology awareness component mentioned above. Exact section-wise mark distribution within the 100-question paper has not been confirmed in the sources reviewed for this article, so treat any specific marks-per-section table you find elsewhere as a third-party estimate unless it cites the official notification PDF directly.
Salary 2026 and Job Profile
The reported, better-corroborated pay structure for this post is ₹5,200–₹20,200 per month plus Grade Pay of ₹2,800, placed at Pay Matrix Level-5. One source quotes a different, self-described “expected” range of ₹29,200–₹92,300 instead — that figure is explicitly an estimate by its own source rather than a confirmed scale, and should be treated as estimated/unofficial if you see it repeated elsewhere without that caveat.
On the job, a UPSSSC Pharmacist works in government hospitals, primary health centres, or dispensaries across Uttar Pradesh, with duties covering accurate dispensing against prescriptions, maintaining pharmacy stock and records, patient counselling on medicine use, and general inventory management within the facility.
What Happens After Tomorrow’s Exam
Once the Main Exam concludes on 29 June, the standard UPSSSC sequence is: provisional answer key release, an objection window for candidates to challenge specific questions, a final answer key incorporating any accepted objections, then the result and category-wise merit cut-off, followed by document verification for those who make the merit list. None of these have dates yet, and UPSSSC has not indicated a timeline for any of them as of today. Watching the official Notice Board on upsssc.gov.in directly is the only reliable way to track this; third-party portals often post a guessed date well before UPSSSC confirms one.
A Mistake Worth Avoiding
UPSSSC ran a separate Homeopathic Pharmacist recruitment (Advertisement No. 09-Exam/2024, 397 posts) with its own result and document-verification cycle completed in September 2025. Because both posts share the word “Pharmacist” and the same recruiting commission, candidates searching “UPSSSC Pharmacist result” or “UPSSSC Pharmacist cut off” sometimes land on Homeopathic Pharmacist pages and mistakenly assume they’re looking at updates for this Pharmacist (Bheshajik), Advt. 01-Exam/2026 recruitment. They are two different posts, different advertisements, and different timelines — always check the advertisement number on whatever page you’re reading before drawing conclusions from it.
FAQs
Q1. I have the Exam City Intimation Slip from around 20 June — is that the same as my admit card?
No. The city slip only confirms your allotted exam city. The actual admit card, released separately on 25 June 2026, carries your roll number, exact exam centre, and reporting time, and is the document you must carry to the centre.
Q2. I was shortlisted in the 18 May Eligibility Result but I’m not sure I completed the mains fee payment by the 2 June deadline — can I still get an admit card?
Only candidates who completed the Main Exam fee payment per UPSSSC’s 2 June 2026 notice are eligible to download the admit card, in addition to being shortlisted in the 18 May result. If you didn’t complete that payment, you would not have an active admit card for this exam, and there is no indication of a late-payment provision in the sources reviewed.
Q3. The PET cut-off shows Unreserved at 10.25 — does that mean I need at least that score to get selected as a Pharmacist?
No. That 10.25 figure was only the PET-2025 screening cut-off used to decide who could sit the Main Exam, not the cut-off for actual selection to the 560 posts. The real selection cut-off is based on Main Exam performance and won’t be known until UPSSSC declares the result.
Q4. My admit card login isn’t working with Registration Number and Password — what else can I try?
A few official-process reports describe the second login field as Date of Birth rather than Password. If your usual password doesn’t work, try your date of birth in that field before assuming a system error, and use the “Forgot Password” option if neither works.
Q5. Why do some articles online still say the exam is on 21 June?
The exam was originally scheduled for 21 June 2026 and was moved to 29 June 2026 due to a clash with the proposed NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination. Articles written before that change was announced still show the old date; 29 June 2026 is the confirmed revised date.
Disclaimer: Advertisement number, vacancy count (560), key dates, the PET-2025 eligibility cut-off figures, and the exam-reschedule reason are drawn from UPSSSC’s own notices as reported across multiple recruitment sources and are treated as confirmed. The exact login field name, section-wise exam marks split, and the conflicting salary figure carry unconfirmed or inconsistent reporting and are flagged as such above. For the authoritative version of every detail, including your own admit card, check the official UPSSSC website: https://upsssc.gov.in
