UP PGT Chemistry 2022 Question Paper: Full Breakdown, Download PDF

8/15/2026

The UP PGT Chemistry 2022 paper is a different animal from the TGT Science paper we broke down earlier. Where TGT Science splits its 125 questions between Physics and Chemistry at a foundation level, this is a 125-question, Chemistry-only paper written at postgraduate depth.

Quantum chemistry, statistical thermodynamics, coordination chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry all show up here alongside the usual organic and physical chemistry staples. Our faculty went through it question by question to map out exactly where the difficulty sits.

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Paper Snapshot: What Candidates Actually Faced

Particular	Detail
Subject	Chemistry only (no Physics/Biology)
Exam Year	2022
Total Questions	125 MCQs
Booklet Length	36 pages
Question Format	Bilingual, 4 options each, sequential 1–125

Unlike the TGT paper, there's no subject-mixing here to worry about — every single question is Chemistry. What replaces that complexity is depth.

This paper draws comfortably from an M.Sc. syllabus, not just NCERT-plus.
Numerical questions expect real constants plugged into real formulas — NMR field strengths, mass defects, osmotic pressure.
Conceptual questions lean hard on the assertion-reason format, which separates rote learners from candidates who understand the mechanism behind the fact.

Where the Marks Actually Were

Going through all 125 questions, the paper splits almost evenly across the three core branches — no single branch dominates the way Chemistry did in the TGT Science paper.

Branch	Approx. Share	Representative Topics Asked
Physical Chemistry	~33%	NMR field-strength calculation, mass defect and binding energy per nucleon, osmotic pressure and colligative properties, Langmuir adsorption isotherm, Gibbs–Duhem and Gibbs–Helmholtz equations, statistical thermodynamics (partition function), Debye–Hückel limiting law, quantum yield in photochemistry, kinetic theory and mean free path, Bragg's equation
Inorganic Chemistry	~33%	Crystal field theory (CFSE, spectrochemical series), EAN calculation for coordination complexes, lanthanide/actinide magnetic moments and oxidation states, periodic trends (Allred–Rochow electronegativity, ionization enthalpy of transition series), anomalous behaviour of beryllium, bioinorganic chemistry (oxidation states of iron in hemoglobin, myoglobin, methemoglobin), Born–Haber cycle, silicate classification
Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry	~33%	Aromaticity of heterocycles (furan, thiophene, pyrrole vs. benzene), reaction mechanisms (benzyne intermediate, Grignard + CO₂, hyperconjugation, resonance stability), carbohydrate chemistry (epimerization, Kiliani–Fischer, Ruff/Wohl degradation), essential amino acids, vitamins and hormones (nomenclature and pairing), medicinal chemistry (primaquine, PAS, DDT, chloroquine), named reactions and dye synthesis (alizarin, malachite green, fluorescein)

A Few Questions Worth Flagging

A few questions we'd flag as genuinely postgraduate-level rather than routine recall:

A quantitative NMR question. Candidates had to calculate the magnetic field strength needed to observe the ¹⁹F resonance at 60 MHz, given the nuclear g-factor and nuclear magneton. Not a definition question — a direct application of the resonance condition equation, the kind of calculation you'd expect in an M.Sc. spectroscopy lab, not a school-level exam.
An applied colligative-properties question. How many grams of glucose per litre are needed to match blood's osmotic pressure for an IV injection? Dressed up as clinical chemistry, but really testing whether candidates can invert the van't Hoff equation correctly under exam pressure.
An assertion-reason question on actinide oxidation states. It pairs the observation that actinides show a wider range of oxidation states with the reasoning that their 5f, 6d, and 7s orbitals are of comparable energy. This rewards candidates who understand why actinide chemistry behaves differently from lanthanide chemistry, not just that it does.
A cluster of bioinorganic questions on hemoglobin, myoglobin, and methemoglobin. Candidates had to track the spin state and oxidation state of iron across oxy-, deoxy-, and met- forms — genuinely advanced content that blends inorganic coordination chemistry with physiology, tested more than once in this paper.

Why This Matters More Than a Generic Score Calculation

For a PGT-level paper, the gap between "knows the topic" and "can apply it under exam conditions" is wider than at TGT level. It tends to show up in a few specific ways:

Formula recall without derivation confidence. Questions like the NMR field-strength or mass-defect calculations aren't hard once you know the formula — but candidates who've only memorised the formula without practising the algebra under time pressure lose these marks routinely.
Assertion-reason questions dominate the conceptual half of this paper. Getting both statements right individually but misjudging whether the reason actually explains the assertion (rather than just being a true, unrelated statement) is the single most common way strong candidates drop marks on questions they technically "knew."
Bioinorganic and biochemistry content is often under-revised. Candidates preparing heavily from classical inorganic/organic texts sometimes treat hemoglobin, vitamins, and hormone chemistry as a low-priority afterthought — this paper treats it as a full, separately testable block.
Cross-branch integration. Several questions (the bioinorganic set, the drug-chemistry set) don't fit neatly into "pure" Physical, Inorganic, or Organic — they require connecting concepts across branches, exactly the kind of synthesis a postgraduate-level exam is designed to test.

How to Analyse Your Own Copy of This Paper

Separate your score by branch, not by question number. Given how evenly split this paper is, a candidate weak in one branch can still post a mediocre overall score while being completely blind to where the actual gap is.
Flag every assertion-reason question separately and re-check why you got it right or wrong. This format punishes partial understanding more than any other question type in this paper.
Re-derive every numerical answer from scratch rather than just matching it to the answer key. If you can't reproduce the NMR field-strength or mass-defect calculation without looking, that's a revision gap, not a "silly mistake."
Treat bioinorganic/biochemistry as its own study block. Don't let it hide inside your Organic or Inorganic revision — the hemoglobin/vitamin/hormone questions in this paper show it's tested with real specificity.
File objections only with a standard reference. J.D. Lee for inorganic, Atkins or McQuarrie for physical/quantum, Morrison & Boyd or Clayden for organic, and Lehninger for the biochemistry-adjacent questions. Commissions reject unreferenced objections outright.

The Rasayanam's Take

This paper confirmed what we've been telling our PGT Chemistry batches for a while now: at this level, the exam stops rewarding memorised facts and starts rewarding the ability to apply core principles — quantum mechanical reasoning, thermodynamic derivations, coordination chemistry theory — under time pressure.

The even three-way split across Physical, Inorganic, and Organic Chemistry (with Biochemistry woven through the last of these) means there's no branch you can afford to deprioritise.

Our faculty run a live, question-by-question discussion of every major Chemistry teaching exam paper, working through the reasoning behind each answer rather than just confirming the correct option.

Faculty: Dr. Avdhesh Sir (IIT BHU), Dr. Shailesh Sir (Founder — CSIR-NET/GATE/IIT-JAM qualified), Dr. Sudhakar Sir (IIT Bombay), Priyanka Ma'am, and N.K. Sir (former BARC/ONGC Scientist).

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