MCQ-Based Preliminary Test
Clear the screening test first
Since 2022 the FPSC has screened every CSS candidate with a 200-mark MCQ paper before the written exam. These are the real papers, timed and marked the way the commission marks them.
What CSS MPT asks most
3 papers
2 coming soonMPT (Screening Test) · 2026
MPT (Screening Test) · 2027
MPT (Screening Test) · 2023
CSS MPT 2024
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CSS MPT 2022
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The MPT is pass-or-go-home: fail it and the written papers never get marked, whatever else you have prepared. It runs to 200 MCQs in 200 minutes across five domains — Islamic Studies, Urdu, English, General Abilities and General Knowledge — and unlike the provincial commission papers on this site, it carries no negative marking at all.
Each paper here was transcribed from the FPSC question booklet and its answer key recovered from the printed solutions. The Urdu section is included in full, set in Nastaliq and read right-to-left, because a paper that drops a fifth of its questions is not the paper you will sit.
How the 200 marks are split
200 MCQs in 200 minutes — one mark and one minute each. There is no negative marking on the MPT, which changes the tactics completely: leaving a question blank scores exactly the same as getting it wrong, so there is never a reason not to guess.
60
General Abilities
50
English
50
General Knowledge
20
Islamic Studies
20
Urdu
Preparing for more than one commission?
Frequently asked questions
- How many CSS MPT papers can I practise online?
- 3 papers are ready, with 475 MCQs between them, from 2023 to 2027. Each can be sat with the clock running and reviewed answer by answer.
- Is there negative marking in CSS MPT papers?
- No. These papers have no negative marking, so answer every question.
- Are the CSS MPT papers free?
- Yes. Every paper is free to attempt, scored the moment you submit.
Every CSS MPT paper, by year
All 3 papers currently on the site, 475 questions in total. Every one is free, timed and marked the way the examining body marks it.