1. All applications for the competitive examination must be made online through the Commission‘s website www.fpsc.gov.pk.
2. Online applications under Rule (1) must be made on or before the closing date as advertised by the Commission.
3. A printed copy of the duly filled online application form (i.e. hardcopy) may be obtained and after signing it, copies of all documents and certificates as mentioned in the application form along with the original treasury receipt may be attached with it and dispatched to the Secretary of the Commission, to reach the Commission‘s headquarters within ten days of the closing date.
4. An online application received incomplete, wrongly filled in or its hardcopy not accompanied with any one of the documents mentioned in the application form shall be rejected.
5. Hardcopy of the online application, if reached to the Commission after the stipulated period of ten days from the closing date, shall not be accepted and the online form already submitted to the Commission shall stand rejected.
6. Any correction in the printed hard copy of the online form may be made by hand and initialed before dispatch or submission to the Commission, whereafter no request for change in any entry of online application or its hard copy shall be accepted.
7. No plea that hardcopy of the online application form or any document attached therewith has been lost or delayed in the post shall be entertained.
8. The candidate shall have to pay or deposit two hundred and fifty Rupees in the Commission‘s head of account as fine, if a hard copy of the online application is received without a signature, subject to no other deficiency in the application or attached documents, otherwise his application shall stand rejected.
9. Hardcopy of the online application must be dispatched in a separate envelope. Two or more applications in one envelope shall not be acceptable.
10. Candidate shall pay two thousand two hundred Rupees, or such other fee as the Commission may determine from time to time, as application fee for competitive examination as per the procedure prescribed in Appendix-II and deposited in the nearest Government‘s treasury or in State Bank or National Bank of Pakistan under the head of the account ―“C02101-Organs of State Exam Fee (FPSC Receipt)”. Cash, postal orders, bank drafts and cheques shall not be accepted by the Commission.
11. Original treasury receipt for the written examination must be attached with the application form to be deposited to the Commission. Without providing the original treasury receipt, the application of the candidate shall be rejected.
12. Subjects for the competitive examination shall comprise compulsory papers of 600 marks and optional papers of 600 marks.
13. Optional subjects must be selected carefully, as the wrong selection of subjects shall lead to the rejection of candidature.
14. Combination of optional subjects once chosen before the closing date for submission of online application or corrected in the hard copy of the online application shall be treated as final and no request for change in subjects shall be allowed thereafter.
15. A candidate who misses any compulsory or optional subject of written examination for medical or any other reasons shall neither be allowed to appear in the remaining subjects nor separate examination for re-appearing in that missed paper shall be allowed.
16. No candidate shall be eligible to avail more than three chances of the competitive examination within prescribed age-limits.  A candidate shall be deemed to have attempted the examination and his chance stand consumed if he appeared in any one or more papers of the competitive examination and even if he tendered a blank answer book or sheet and even if rejected subsequently.
17. A candidate who conceals the number of previous attempts shall be liable to prosecution leading to his disqualification under these rules.
18. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination hall who does not hold original Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) and admission certificate generated or downloaded from the Commission‘s website i.e. www.fpsc.gov.pk as admission certificate shall not be sent through the post.
19. A candidate who arrives at the examination hall or center late, then the time mentioned in the admission certificate and date sheet, he shall not be allowed to sit in the examination.
20. Candidates shall be admitted to the examination provisionally at their own risk subject to their being found eligible in all respects. On detailed scrutiny of the applications after the announcement of the result of the written examination, if any candidate is found ineligible in any respect under these rules; his candidature shall be canceled and rejected regardless of the fact whether he has appeared in the examination or qualified therein.
21. To avoid inconvenience, candidates shall ensure that they fulfill all requirements of the rules relating to the examination before appearing at the examination.

1. A candidate must satisfy the Commission that he is suitable in all respects for employment under the Government.
2. The candidates who pass the written examination shall be intimated individually as well as through the website but the candidates who fail in the written examination shall not be informed individually, they may download detailed marks sheet from the website.
3. The 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 thereunder, be final.
4. 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.
5. If during the conduct of examination at an examination center or hall, any candidate is found in possession of a cellular phone or likewise devices, he shall be disqualified for the instant examination.
6. The result of any candidate whose candidature is rejected on any ground shall not be declared, irrespective of whether he failed or passed the examination.
7. 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.
8. 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 the Commission considers it necessary.
9. All communication to the Commission should be addressed to the Secretary thereof by each candidate separately quoting his roll number and CNIC number. If the roll number has not yet been allotted, the serial number of the application may be quoted. Candidates must make their 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 addresses.
10. 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, Buddhist or Parsi community, a person of the Qadiani 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.
11. Subject to the maximum of three chances under these rules, applications of Government servants shall be governed by the Government Servants (Application for Services and Posts) Rules, 1966.
12. 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.
13. Armed forces candidates should route their applications through the proper channel. Applications not routed through the proper channel shall be rejected. Released or retired personnel should produce a clearance certificate from the Military Secretary Branch for employment in the civil services of Pakistan. However, an advance copy of the application may be submitted before the closing date to avoid rejection.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. The marking of answers shall be in the order of consecutive answers and over attempted questions shall not be evaluated and credited.
18. Writing on question paper shall be considered cheating and the delinquent candidate shall be prosecuted under these rules.
19. 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.
20. 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 shall be proceeded against for disciplinary action under these rules as the Commission may deem appropriate.
21. 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 until half the time is over. However, the candidate will not be allowed to take a question paper with him until the conclusion of the examination in that paper.
22. 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.
23. Paper containing multiple-choice questions (MCQs) shall be attempted on the 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 the OMR sheet. Any answer given beyond the reserved space or not corresponding with the question number of the MCQ paper shall not be marked or taken into account.
24. 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, the question relating to translation from the respective language into English or vice versa may be answered as directed in the question paper.
25. The question paper in Islamic studies or comparative study of major religions is to be answered in English or Urdu only.
26. The non-Muslim candidates shall have the option either to take Islamic studies or comparative study of major religions.
27. Candidates must use blue or black ink only in their answer books otherwise zero marks may be awarded.
28. 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 along with a treasury challan of five hundred Rupees per paper as fee for recounting of marks only. Thereafter, no such request shall be entertained.
29. Re-evaluation of marks awarded by the viva voce board shall not be allowed under any circumstances.
30. Grace marks shall not be allowed.
31. 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.
32. No claim for refund of any fee shall be entertained nor can the fees paid be held in reserve for another examination or selection.
33. If a candidate who appeared in a previous competitive examination, wishes to apply in the next competitive examination, he must apply by the prescribed date without waiting for the result of the previous competitive examination. If subsequently, he doesn’t need to appear in the next examination, his examination fee shall not be refunded.
34. 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.

• A candidate aggrieved by any decision of the Commission shall be entitled to make a representation or, as the case may be, a review petition under the provisions of the Ordinance and the Rules made thereunder and no such representation or review petition shall be entertained unless accompanied with an original treasury receipt evidencing payment of fee of five hundred Rupees or such other fee as the Commission may determine from time to time.

1. The candidates who qualify in the written examination and viva voce, their final merit shall be determined by adding marks obtained in the written examination and viva voce.
2. When total marks of written examination and viva voce of more than one candidate are equal, the one who gets more marks in viva-voce shall be treated as higher in merit. If marks in viva voce are also equal, the one who gets more marks in compulsory subjects shall be treated as higher in merit. If marks in compulsory subjects are also equal the older one shall be treated as higher in merit.
3. No authority, accept the Commission shall be authorized to announce the result.

• The actual number of vacancies in BS-17 to be filled on the results of the competitive examination shall be announced with the approval of the Establishment Division.

1. Seats in respect of the Occupational Groups and Services shall be allocated under the policy as may be prescribed by the Federal Government before finalizing the appointments and for that purpose, the candidates shall produce a domicile certificate issued by the competent authority under the law and the rules. Candidates securing the highest places on the combined results of the written examination, psychological assessment and viva-voce and eligible for appointment shall be recommended by the Commission in order of merit up to the number of vacancies available. However, appointments shall be made by the respective appointing authorities. No candidate shall be considered for appointment to any of the Occupational Groups and Services for which he has been declared not suitable by the Commission at the time of viva-voce.
2. Success in the examination confers no right to appointment. Appointments shall be made only after the appointing authority is satisfied, after such inquiry as may be necessary, that the candidate is suitable in all respects for appointment to the public service and subject to the availability of vacancies.
3. Candidates shall be considered for those Occupational Groups and Services only which they indicate in the application form. No candidate shall be considered for the Occupational Groups and Services which he will not mention in the form. Candidates shall be given a chance to revise their choice of Occupational Groups and Services at the time of the viva-voce. Preferences so revised at the time of viva-voce shall be treated as final and no subsequent change shall be allowed under any circumstances. Candidates may opt for an Occupational Group and Service irrespective of the fact whether there is a vacancy therein or not.
4. The Commission reserves the right to allocate a candidate against any Occupational Group and Service irrespective of his preferences, in the public interest and the decision of the Commission in this respect shall be final.

1. Once the process of allocation has been accomplished, the vacancies that remained unfilled due to the non-availability of qualified candidates shall be carried over to the next competitive examination by the quota policy as may be prescribed by the Federal Government.
2. The Commission shall maintain the waiting merit list till the commencement of the Common Training Program(CTP). Therefore, if any nominee of the Commission does not join and intimation in this regard reaches to the Commission through Establishment Division before the commencement of CTP, the Commission shall nominate the next candidate on merit against an Occupational Group or Service according to his merit position, preferred choice and following the quota policy as may be prescribed by the Federal Government.
3. The vacancies of non-joiner reported to the Commission after commencement of CTP shall be carried over to the next competitive examination.
4. Once the process of allocation or re-allocation according to timelines given in these rules is over, the waiting merit list shall no longer be valid and the process of that competitive examination shall stand completed and closed.

• To the Federal Public Service Commission:

The procedure for payment of fee is as under:

(a) The amount should be deposited in the National Bank of Pakistan, or in the nearest Government Treasury or in State Bank of Pakistan under the Head of the account ― C02101 Organs of State – Exam Fee (FPSC Receipts). Cash, postal orders, bank drafts and cheques will not be accepted by the Federal Public Service Commission.

(b) The name of the bank/treasury office at which the fee has been deposited should be clearly entered in the treasury receipt. The treasury receipt should be on the form prescribed for the Federal Government transactions and should be obtained from the treasury at which the fee is deposited; and

(c) Candidates outside Pakistan may submit their applications without paying the prescribed examination fee. They must, however, arrange to pay the fees and send the receipt before the date of the examination.

• To the Medical Board:

Rs.100 to be deposited by all the candidates in the Government Treasury or State Bank of Pakistan under Head of Accounts ―C—02839-Health Fee for Medical Examination. The original copy of the Treasury Challan should be handed over to the President of the Central Medical Board at the time of Medical Examination.

Rs. 1400 before examination by a Medical Board in the case of candidates who qualify in the written examination. Payment of this fee will be required to be made in cash to the Medical Board concerned at the time of physical examination of the candidates. Candidates will present their National Identity Cards & Admission Certificates to the Medical Authorities concerned.

A Candidate who is medically deferred will have to make the full payment again to the Medical Board at the time of re-examination.

Candidates must see the rules and must decide definitely before depositing the fee in the Treasury or Bank that they are eligible in all respects to apply for the examination. Fee once deposited in the Treasury or Bank will not be refunded nor will it be held in reserve for any other examination or selection under any circumstances.