Hmmm, you have a very bright chance of selection due to less competition.

Category – D BPS-17/equivalent (i) Assistant Director (ii) Project Manager

Test Specification: Subjective & Objective Section I : Subjective: ( 30%)

(i) English Essay: 20 Marks = Candidate will be required to write an Essay from a set of 03 given topics. Candidates are expected to reflect comprehensive and research based knowledge on a selected topic. Candidate’s articulations, expression and technical approach to the Style of English Essay writing will be examined.

(ii) Precis Writing: 10 Marks = A selected passage with an orientation of general understanding and enough flexibility for compression shall be given for précising and suggesting an appropriate title.

Section II: MCQs/ Objective (70%) i. Project Management, Organizational Management, HRM (Case Study/Scenario based) 20 Marks ii.

Secretariat Instruction, Office Procedure, Rules of Business 15 Marks

iii. Business Communication 10 Marks

iv. Vocabulary, Grammar Usage, Sentence Structuring 10 Marks

v. General Knowledge, Current Affairs, Everyday Science 10 Marks

vi. IT and Basic Mathematics 05 Marks

Last time the topics of the essay were:

1) Most people have become overly dependent on technology.
2) Importance of tolerance in our social life.
3) What causes fear in the work place?

I am sharing some very valuable comments of Muhammad Ali Baig that he posted in another thread. He got selected last year as an AD in HEC. hope that it will help you in your preparation...

I applied in March 2016 and got 79 marks, and topped all Pakistan, with the domicile of ICT. I received two interview letters for the post of Assistant Director, which was scheduled on 9 October 2016, one for Merit and one for Punjab, and finally received the appointment letter on 2 November 2016. It should be noted that ICT domicile holders are considered in Punjab, unless separately specified.

There are a few things I must share about the entire process.
1. The syllabus content has a wide range. The 15 marks portion of secretariat instructions, office procedures and the rules of business 1973 offer relatively straight questions. Its very easy to score 15 of 15 in this portion. But what I had observed was that the majority left the portion on luck and considered it generally easy. I remember there were candidates who told me on the test day that who would study 129 pages of secretariat instructions? and those who studied, just went through the content and took it light. Questions were very simple, and that made them confident on their perception about the subject that it was just a matter of "common sense". The result proved them wrong later on. Secondly, its a common concern of most of the candidates having non-management related degrees that this portion will be easier for candidates having management related degrees. That is not true. Because there are manuals available on the subject which can be studied and understood by anyone, doctors, engineers, bio-scientists, anyone!
2. The portion of business communication is again very general, they ask you questions mainly from the pearson editions, available on the internet.
3. The management portion covers the basic management: very little about the basics of management, and a lot from the project management. Many questions were picked from the sample questions of PMP certification available on the website of PMI
4. English portion is the game changer. Most of us do not really understand the art of precise writing. Our writing at essay is again very weak. Anyone who gets 20+ in the english (subjective) section has a good chance to stand out in the competition
5. Interviews are very short, and disturbing. But the criteria is quite different, still not very clear. They will consider your degrees, and experience and a lot of other things too. But most of all, your score in the written. If you have topped in the written exam, you'll not have to worry about the interview at all. Maybe, you will think you haven't performed well in the interview but trust me, if your written score is good, like if you are among the top 5 candidates, you'll get the offer of appointment.
6. The process takes time. After the result, you'll have to wait a lot for the interviews, but not more than one and a half months.
7. The process is purely on merit. Don't worry about nepotism and favoritism

Last but not the least, don't worry about the difficulty level, the merit goes accordingly. There are only a few of this large pool of candidates who would clear the test with flying colors anyway.

Thank you for sharing such a useful information

When will interview calls be issued for the post of Assistant?

when you apply for this?share it ad please

We applied on Oct, 2016 and appeared for written test on 31 Dec, 2016

Gondal sb, i read your posts. I like your struggle. Good luck

My pleasure bro...

Thanks shanim.