What Is The Special CSS Exam? Complete Details

FPSC will conduct a special CSS exam to fill vacant seats due to low passing rates in certain provinces/quotas over the past few years. These include seats for minorities, women’s quota, and seats from backward provinces like Sindh and Balochistan.

The Federal Public Service Commission, (FPSC), shall hold a Special CSS Competitive Exam. This examination is only to be held ONCE for vacancies that have not been filled through CSS Competitive Examination in the past.

The FPSC will announce the timetable for the Special CSS Competitive Examination in due course. This Advance Public Notice is published to inform candidates who may be eligible for application according to the relevant Rules.

What Is The Special CSS Exam? Complete Details Below

What is the purpose of the special CSS exam?

Each February, the CSS exam is held to identify bureaucrats responsible for implementing state laws. Due to the uneven education system in different provinces, candidates from Sindh, Baluchistan, and KPK cannot pass the exam.

Baluchistan and Sindh are still vacant each year. KPK and all women seats in Punjab, including KPK, remain vacant. These seats are therefore carried forward to next year, and the problem remains unchanged.

What is the age limit for special CSS?

Regular CSS has a 30-year age limit. The upper age limit for Special CSS has been extended by TWO years. This means that all applicants, regardless of their age, or those who have applied for Special CSS before, can apply up until 32 years. Government servants can apply for up to 34 years. People from tribal areas and special regions can apply for up to 34 years.

Vacancies for the Special CSS Exam

This is the first time that special CSS exams have been conducted in civil service history to fill the 188 federal service vacancies that were left vacant over the past few years. Balochistan 49; Rural Sind 41; Urban Sind 19 KP 22 ex Fata/GB16 & AJK 2, and 39 for minorities in Punjab

CSS Special Exam Vacancies to be filled (tentative)

• Punjab
  • Minorities only: PAAS = 4, CTG = 2, PCS = 4, IRS = 10, IG = 2, MLCG = 1, OMG = 12, PSP = 4, POSTG = 2, RCTG = 2.
• Sindh (R)
  • Open merit: PAAS = 1, CTG = 3, IG = 5, OMG = 14, POSTG = 2, RCTG = 1.
  • Women: PAAS = 1, CTG = 1, IG = 1, OMG = 5, POSTG = 4, RCTG = 1.
  • Minorities: POSTG = 1.
• Sindh (U)
  • Open merit: OMG = 1, POSTG = 1.
  • Women: IG = 4, POSTG = 4, RCTG = 1.
  • Minorities: PAAS = 1, PCS = 1, FSP = 1, IRS = 2, OMG = 2, PSP = 1.
• KPK
  • Open merit: RCTG = 1.
  • Women: IG = 3, POSTG = 2.
  • Minorities: PAAS = 1, CTG = 1, PCS = 1, PAS = 2, FSP = 1, IRS = 3, OMG = 3, PSP = 1.
• Balochistan
  • Open merit: PAAS = 5, CTG = 4, IRS = 7, IG = 3, OMG = 13, POSTG = 3, RCTG = 1.
  • Women: IRS = 2, IG = 2, OMG = 3, PSP = 1, POSTG = 2, RCTG = 1.
  • Minorities: PAAS = 2, PAS = 1, FSP = 1, IRS = 1, IG = 1, OMG = 1.
• AJK
  • Minorities Only:IG = 1, OMG = 1.