CSS Exams - General information.

Overview

The Competitive Examination will be held by the Federal Public Service Commission, in the month of February for recruitment to posts in BS-17 for the following Groups/Services under the Federal Government:

1. Commerce & Trade Group
2. Customs & Excise Group
3. District Management Group
4. Foreign Service of Pakistan
5. Income Tax Group
6. Information Group
7. Pakistan Audit & Accounts Service
8. Police Service of Pakistan
9. Postal Group
10. Railways (Commercial & Transportation) Group

1. Places of the Examination.—The examination will be held simultaneously at Islamabad, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Abbottabad, D.I.Khan and Quetta.
2. The Commission reserves the right to finally decide the place where the candidates would be examined or interviewed.
3. The Competitive Examination comprises the following :
• Written Examination,
• Medical Test,
• Psychological Test; and Viva Voce.

Qualifications, Age Limits 

1. A candidate for admission to the examination must have attained the age of 21 and must not have attained the age of 28 on 1st January, 2012.
2. The upper age limit will be relaxed by two years up to the age of 30 years in respect of:
• The candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Buddhist Community subject to production of a certificate (Annexure-A of Application Form) to be issued by Political Agent/DCO/District Magistrate in support of their claim.
• the candidates belonging to the recognized Tribes who are permanent residents of the areas mentioned-below and whose families have been living in these areas. Such candidates must attach a certificate (Annexure- B of Application Form) to be issued by Political Agent/DCO/District Magistrate in support of their claim: —
1. Balochistan
2. Tribal areas of D.I. Khan and Peshawar Divisions (including former Frontier States of Dir, Swat, Chitral and Amb).
3. Former excluded (Baluch) area forming part of the Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur Districts.
4. Former tribal areas of Mardan and Hazara Divisions.
5. Upper Tanawal area of Hazara Division.
• the candidates who are permanent residents of Azad Kashmir Territory, subject to submission of a certificate (Annexure-C of Application Form) to be issued by Kashmir Affairs Division, Government of Pakistan.
• the candidates who are permanent residents of Northern Areas including Gilgit, Diamir, Baltistan, Ghizar and Ghanche, subject to submission of a certificate (Annexure-B of Application Form) to be issued by the Political Agent/DCO/District Magistrate.
3. In the case of in Service Government Servants, including the Government servants of AJ&K, who possess a minimum of two years continuous Government service as on first January, 2008, the upper age limit is relaxable by two years up to the age of 30 years, subject to submission of Departmental Permission Certificate from the competent authority. Employees of Nationalised Banks, State Bank of Pakistan, WAPDA, Regulatory Authorities, Autonomous bodies and other semi autonomous bodies are not entitled to age relaxation.
4. The date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the following documents :

1.    Matriculation Certificate ;

2.    Secondary or Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate;

3.    Certificate of birth from the Principal/Headmaster of the School from where a candidate has passed his/her GEC, ‘O’ level or equivalent examination, showing the date of birth in the School Admission Register ;

4.    In case of Christian candidates, Baptismal or birth registration certificate.

                The decision as to which of the certificate is equivalent to Matric Certificate rests with the Commission.

                Once a date of birth has been claimed and accepted by the Commission for the purpose of admission to an examination, no change will be allowed at a subsequent examination or selection

                The applications of Government Servants will also be governed by the Government Servants (Application for Services and Posts) Rules, 1966 except that the chances will be allowed irrespective of the provisions of the Government Servants (Application for Services and Posts) Rules, 1966.

The relaxation in age limits prescribed in paragraph 4 (ii) and (iii) above shall be permitted up to the maximum period of an individual concession and not by the total period of the concessions taken together, if admissible in any case.

Education

1. A candidate must hold at least a Second Class or Grade “C” Bachelor degree in any faculty of one of the Pakistani Universities or an equivalent degree or comparable educational qualifications of a foreign University. (The candidate must have acquired the requisite qualification, on or before 1st January, 2008).
2. A candidate who has obtained a Third Division (or ‘D’ grade) in his/her Bachelor’s Degree will be eligible for the Examination in cases where he/she has obtained a higher Division in Master’s Degree.
3. The decision as to which foreign degrees or comparable educational qualifications are equivalent to corresponding Pakistani degree rests solely with the Commission.
   
   
   
   
   
   
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   1. A candidate must satisfy the Federal Public Service Commission that he/she is suitable in all respects for employment under the Government.
   2. No candidate will be admitted to the examination who does not hold a certificate of admission from the Commission.
   3. The decision of the Commission as to the eligibility or otherwise of a candidate for admission to the examination shall be final.
   4. Candidates are cautioned that if an application which is not signed and or is received incomplete or wrongly filled in and is not accompanied with any of the documents mentioned in para 11 of the Instructions to Candidates it will be rejected.
   5. Caution:—A candidate who knowingly furnishes any particular which is false, or suppresses material information or attempts to influence the Commission, officers or members of the staff of the Commission or to obtain support for his/her candidature by improper means, or deliberately submits forged certificates or tampers with the entries in his/her age and educational certificates, or misbehaves in the examination hall or uses unfair means or found guilty of misconduct during medical and V.V. tests may be disqualified for this and/or subsequent examinations/selections held by the Commission or criminally prosecuted and debarred from employment under Government.
   6. A candidate who, even after his appointment, is found to have knowingly furnished any particulars which are false, or to have suppressed material information will be liable to dismissal from Service.
   7. Certificates of age and educational qualifications in which any entry is overwritten, altered, erased, mutilated or tampered with in any way or the genuineness of which is otherwise doubted will be liable to be impounded till such time as the Commission considers it necessary.
   8. Answer papers in all the subjects of examination are secret documents and cannot, therefore, be permitted to be seen by the candidates or their representatives nor re-examination of answer books/scripts is allowed under any circumstances. A candidate desirous of getting of his/her marks, awarded by the examiners re-counted may submit his request for the purpose, within one month from the date of issue of result card/marks sheet alongwith a Treasury Challan of Rs. 200/- per paper as fee for re-checking/ recounting of marks only. Thereafter, no such request will be entertained.
   9. The Answer books of the Candidates will be retained in the office of the Federal Public Service Commission for one year only and thereafter the same will be destroyed. Candidates are, therefore, cautioned that any query relating to their Answer books should be made within the specified period, thereafter, no request in this regard will be entertained.
   10. The candidates are cautioned that wrong selection of subjects will lead to summary rejection under para 7 and no appeal will be entertained against this rejection. Change of optional subjects is not allowed.

   Grace marks are not allowed.

Vacancies

The approximate number of vacancies in BS-17 to be filled on the results of this examination will be announced later. The Government, however, reserve the right to fill a smaller or larger number of vacancies than that announced.

For any clarification needed, call 03217653578.

Compulsory Subjects

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