Recruitment through CSS
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CSS Competitive Examination is held by the FPSC every year, for induction of officers in Basic Pay Scale 17 into the Civil services of the Federation, for the following 10 Groups/Services under the Federal Government.

Accounts Group
Commerce and Trade Group
Customs and Excise Group
District Management Group
Foreign service of Pakistan
Information Group
Income Tax Group
Police Service of Pakistan
Postal Group
Railways (Commercial and Transportation) Group

Eligibility to Appear in CSS Examination

To apply for CSS Examination, a candidate should be a citizen of Pakistan and must hold at least a Bachelors Degree with the second division in any Faculty/Discipline. The age limit for admission in CSS Examination is 21-28 years, which is relaxable upto 2 years for those who are already in Government Service and have completed 2 years service. The relaxation is also available to candidates belonging to certain remote areas as defined by Government. A candidate can avail only three chances to appear in CSS Competitive Examination, subject to fulfillment of the above requirements.

Written Examination
The Written Examination for CSS consists of 1200 marks (600 marks for compulsory subjects and 600 marks for optional subjects). The examination is normally held during the month of October/November every year in 5 main cities of Pakistan.

Qualification marks in written Examination
The qualification marks in CSS written examination are as under:

a) Compulsory Subjects – 40% in each subjects

b) Optional Subjects – 33% in each subjects

c) Aggregate Marks – 50%

Medical and Psychological Test
The Candidates, who qualify the written examination as per criteria, have to appear for their medical Test before central Medical Board, according to the schedule prescribed by the Ministry of Health. Then the medically qualified candidates are given psychological Tests, in individual as well as in Groups, to access their aptitude and personality traits for different Groups/Services, before the Viva Voce.

Viva Voce
The viva Voce tests consists of 300 marks and minimum qualification marks are 100. No candidate is considered for appointment to any of the Group/Service for which he/she is declared “not suitable” by the Viva Voce Board. The viva voce is conducted by a larger board (mostly five members) headed by the chairman at Islamabad and at all Provincial headquarters.

Allocation of Groups/services
The qualified candidates are allocated Groups/services, keeping in view their merit, suitability report for any Group/Service, domicile of the candidate, availability of post in concerned Group/service for that domicile and the priority of the candidate given in his/her application. The seats for each Group/Service are referred to the Commission by the Establishment Division which vary in number from year to year.