Only those candidates are declared passed who have entered in second phase because of their passing score. It doesn't mean that if one gets 50% marks then he is qualified. Merit is usually made in all types of exams according to the availability of vacant seats. For example if there are 50 vacant seats for a particular post then top 150 to 200 candidates are declared passed. No matter the score of 200th candidate is 90 or 50. Even FPSC & PPSC also make merits for particular posts by using above formula. So in todays high competition environment one should always try to achieve highest marks, not only passing marks.

A little of the chart, but was wondering if it would still be a competitive one, or one have to do the efforts? And by "Efforts" I literally mean the Interceding culture prevailing in our environment.

What you have said is absolutely right. MOD can not pass the aspirants having 50% marks, as it can not conduct the psychological and interviews of a huge number of candidates. The pass candidates are, in fact, the ones who have been shortlisted among the 96000 people. I think the criticism on MOD can not be justified in any way
Best luck to all for the next time.

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One of my friends passed AD test but failed in staff level.....:p

Makes sense. Staff test had more MCQs while AD test was mostly subjective. Had i appeared in staff test I would have definitely failed as well.

In subjective questions you get margin to express your knowledge, understanding and writing/analysis skills. MCQs on the other hand are mostly ratta..

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What was the weightage of Subjective portions in both the papers precisely?

AD
50 marks for MCQs and 100 for Subjective

Staff
70 MCQs 30 Subjective

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Neither i am questioning the credibility of NTS nor i am insulting who have qualified but i have one thing to say that i know the caliber of my friend better than anyone else!

Well people here have a lot of grievance against MoD.

Those who think they invited applications with simple graduation condition, which they call injustice, should note that graduation is the per-requisite for almost all competitive exam including CSS. Had they limited applications in favor of few degrees that could have been injustice.

Those who think they used it to raise money. Give it a rest! MoD has multibillion budget. They really don need this.

Those who think civilians were ignored and already serving people were preferred, should know that if you join MoD as AD, you will serve as a civilian, retire a civilian and die a civilian!


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It was just my observation. Had nothing to do with you or your friend. Of course I don't know him.

And yes we all can see your fiend's caliber. After all, he takes you as a friend, yet here you are questioning the criterion of the test since he passed

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Passed.let see what happen next .

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