PPSC Punjab State Civil Services Exam PCS 2025

The Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) has made official announcement the Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2025 (PSCSCCE-2025) is being conducted for recruitment of officers as Punjab Civil Service (Executive Branch), DSP , Tehsildar , ETO and Various State Government Department Officers Posts . Total allotted seats under this vacancy is 322.

 

Interested and eligible candidates can apply online from 03 Jan to 31 Jan 2025 through PPSC Official website , (Click "Apply" Button for link) .

 

Candidates can read official notification for more detail about Selection Procedure , Exam Pattern , Category- Wise Seats , How to Apply , Salaries and Other Details.

 

Advt. No. : 20251

Selection Procedure of PSCSCCE-2025 consists of following stages :-

1.Preliminary Examination 

2.Main Examination ( Written and Interview)

3.Document Verification 

4. Medical Examination 

5. Merit list and Appointment

 

1.Preliminary Competitive Examination : 

Question Type : Objective type multiple choice questions (Both Papers )

 Total Duration : 2 Hours ( For each Papers ) , 40 Minutes extra for Persons with disability candidates for each paper.

 

 

CSAT Exam shall be of qualifying nature, without negative marking with the minimum cut off of 40 % marks.

 

Candidates must secure atleast 40 % marks in Paper-II (Civil Services Aptitude Test) to qualify the Preliminary Examination and these Paper-II (Civil Services Aptitude Test) marks will not be counted for the determination of merit of the Preliminary exam.

 

The merit of the Preliminary Examination shall be solely based Paper -I (General Studies).

 

No Negative Marking : There will be no negative marking in the written preliminary examination test.

 

 The question paper shall be bilingual and shall be printed in English (Roman script) and Punjabi (Gurumukhi script) except for questions where candidates’ proficiency in
language is to be tested.

 

 The standard of questions would be to test the knowledge as is expected of a person who has attained education at least up to graduation level.

 

Preliminary Examination is only a screening test for selecting candidates who would be eligible to take the Main Examination and the marks obtained in this Examination shall
not be counted towards the merit of the candidates arrived at after the Written Main Examination.

 

2.Main Competitive Examination ( Written and Interview) :

   Total Duration : 3 Hours ,extra time of sixty minutes in each paper for Visually impaired candidates.

 

 

NOTE:- IN THE GENERAL STUDIES SYLLABUS SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON HISTORY, CULTURE, ECONOMY AND GEOGRAPHY OF PUNJAB IS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MAIN EXAMINATION.

The main competitive examination shall include seven compulsory papers.

 

Candidates will have the option to attempt all the papers, except the language papers in Punjabi or English medium.

 

Candidates exercising the option to answer Papers in Punjabi language may, if they so desire, give English version within brackets of only the description of the technical terms, if any, in addition to the version in Punjabi language.

 

The question papers other than language papers will be set in English. However, when any candidate opts for attempting any paper(s) in Punjabi medium, the question papers shall be printed in Punjabi accordingly.

 

Interview shall be conducted for only those candidates who qualify on the basis of their performance in the main competitive examination and who fulfill the criteria of eligibility.

 

No candidate shall be eligible to appear in the interview unless he/she obtains 45% marks in the aggregate of all the papers (read 40 % for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) including at least 25% marks in each paper provided that if in any main competitive examination, a sufficient number of candidates do not obtain 45% marks in the aggregate (read 40 % for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes), the Commission may at their discretion lower this percentage to not below 40% (read 35 % for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes), however, the minimum percentage for each paper shall remain unchanged.

 

No candidate shall be considered to have qualified the competitive examination unless he obtains at least 45% marks in the aggregate in the main examination including interview marks (read 40 % for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) except in the case of any main competitive examination for which this percentage has been lowered to not less than 40% (read 35 % for the candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) by the Commission in which case the qualifying percentage shall be as determined by the Commission.

Names of qualified candidates shall be arranged in order of merit according to the aggregate marks obtained in the main written examination and the interview.

 

Note: In the event that the aggregate marks obtained in the Written and Interview parts of the Main Examination taken together of two or more candidates are equal, the candidate securing higher marks in the written part of the Main Examination shall be ranked higher.