General Provisions
- A candidate must satisfy the Commission that he is suitable in all respects for employment under the Government.
- The candidates who pass the written examination shall be intimated individually as well as through website but the candidates who fail in written examination shall not be informed individually, they may download detailed marks sheet from website.
- Decision of the Commission as to the eligibility or otherwise of a candidate for admission to the examination shall, subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and rules made there under, be final.
- A candidate who knowingly furnishes particulars which are false or suppresses material information or attempts to influence the Commission or officers or members of the staff of the Commission or tries to obtain support for his candidature by improper means or deliberately submits forged certificates or tampers with the entries in his age, educational and other certificates or misbehaves in the examination hall or uses unfair means including possession of cellular phone or other electronic device for use or attempted use for copying or is found guilty of misconduct during examination or medical or viva voce tests and uses filthy and unethical language in the answer book during written examination, shall be liable to disqualification for this and subsequent examinations or selections held by the Commission including debarring him from employment under the Federal Government and shall, however, not absolve him from prosecution for a criminal offence if any in accordance with the law in force.
- If during the conduct of examination at an examination centre or hall, any candidate is found in possession of cellular phone or likewise devices, he shall be disqualified for the instant examination.
- The result of any candidate whose candidature is rejected on any ground shall not be declared, irrespective whether he failed or passed the examination.
- A candidate who even after his appointment is found to have knowingly furnished particulars which are false or to have suppressed material information shall be liable to dismissal from government service.
- 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 shall be liable to be impounded till such time as the Commission considers it necessary.
- All communication to the Commission should be addressed to the Secretary thereof by each candidate separately quoting his roll number and CNIC number. If roll number has not yet been allotted, serial number of the application may be quoted. Candidates must make their own arrangements for communications addressed to them at the addresses stated in their applications to be redirected to their new addresses, when necessary. However, any change of address should be communicated at once to the Secretary of the Commission. Candidates should not write their postal addresses care of post box number etc. as postal authorities do not accept registered letters at such address.
- As provided in Article 260 (3)(b) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, non-Muslim means a person who is not Muslim and includes a person belonging to the Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Budhist or Parci community, a person of the Quadiani group or the Lahori group (who call themselves "Ahmadis" or by any other name), or a Bahai and a person belonging to any of the scheduled castes. Only those candidates shall be considered for vacancies reserved for non-Muslims whose application forms for the competitive examination are accompanied by certificate to this effect issued by the Deputy Commissioner or District Magistrate. No such certificate shall be accepted at any later stage.
- Subject to the maximum three chances under these rules, applications of Government servants shall be governed by the Government Servants (Application for Services and Posts) Rules, 1966.
- Government servants who fulfill conditions laid down in these rules shall be eligible for admission to the examination if permitted by the competent authority in their departments or offices. However, an advance copy of the application may be submitted before the closing date to avoid rejection. Candidates who join Government service after submitting their applications for admission to the examination shall submit the departmental permission certificate immediately thereafter.
- Armed forces' candidates should route their applications through proper channel. Applications not routed through proper channel shall be rejected. Released or retired personnel should produce a clearance certificate from Military Secretary Branch for employment in civil services of Pakistan. However, an advance copy of the application may be submitted before the closing date to avoid rejection.
- A candidate who after submitting such departmental permission, joins Civil Services Academy or is transferred to another department, should obtain the permission of that department and submit it to the Commission as soon as possible.
- A candidate who has left Government service should submit with his application an attested copy of his discharge or service certificate. A candidate who has been dismissed from Government or semi Government service shall not be eligible for admission to the examination.
- If marks of a candidate are less than 40% in any of the compulsory subjects, less than 33% marks in any of the optional subjects and less than 100 marks out of 300 in viva voce, these shall not be counted and credited in the total marks.
- The marking of answers shall be in order of consecutive answers and over attempted question shall not be evaluated and credited.
- Writing on question paper shall be considered as cheating and delinquent candidate shall be prosecuted under these rules.
- If any candidate writes his roll number, except in the space provided for this purpose on the cover of the answer book, or writes his name or makes any distinguishing mark at any place in his answer book or additional answer book he shall be awarded zero marks in that paper, besides any other punishment which the Commission may decide to award.
- A candidate who rips the pages or does not cross out empty pages of answer book or additional answer book or does not hand over his answer books or additional answer book to the supervisory staff, he shall be proceeded against for disciplinary action under these rules as the Commission may deem appropriate.
- A candidate who has received and read the question paper shall not be allowed to leave his seat or examination hall without marking his attendance and until half the time is over. However, the candidate will not be allowed to take question paper with him until conclusion of the examination in that paper.
- Use of calculators shall only be allowed in applied mathematics, pure mathematics, accountancy, statistics, business administration, physics and chemistry. Use of calculator shall not be allowed in the paper of general science and ability.
- Paper containing multiple choice questions (MCQs) shall be attempted on optical mark reader (OMR) sheet provided separately for the purpose. Both MCQs paper and OMR sheet shall be collected back after the allotted time. The number of MCQs in each paper may be attempted in the same sequence at the space reserved on OMR sheet. Any answer given beyond the reserved space or not corresponding with question number of MCQ paper shall not be marked or taken into account.
- The question papers in Urdu or other Pakistani regional languages (Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushto and Balochi), Persian and Arabic should be answered in the respective languages. However, question relating with translation from respective language into English or vice versa, may be answered as directed in the question paper.
- The question paper in Islamic studies or comparative study of major religions is to be answered in English or Urdu only.
- The non-Muslim candidates shall have the option either to take Islamic studies or comparative study of major religions.
- Candidates must use blue or black ink only in their answer books otherwise zero marks may be awarded.
- Answer books in all subjects of examination are confidential documents and cannot, therefore, be permitted to be seen by candidates or their representatives nor re-examination of answer books and scripts shall be allowed under any circumstances. A candidate desirous of getting his 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 or marks sheet alongwith a treasury challan of five hundred Rupees per paper as fee for re-counting of marks only. Thereafter, no such request shall be entertained.
- Re-evaluation of marks awarded by the viva voce board shall not be allowed under any circumstances.
- Grace marks shall not be allowed.
- Answer books of candidates shall be retained in the office of the Commission for one year only and thereafter destroyed. Any query relating to answer books should be made within the specified period, thereafter, no request in this regard shall be entertained.
- No claim for refund of any fee shall be entertained nor can the fees paid be held in reserve for another examination or selection.
- If a candidate who appeared in previous competitive examination, wishes to apply in the next competitive examination, he must submit an application by the prescribed date without waiting for the result of the previous competitive examination. If subsequently it is not necessary for him to appear in the next examination, his examination fee shall not be refunded.
- The Commission reserves the right to change the schedule of the examination as well as to cancel any paper or papers or the entire competitive examination without assigning any reason.