Official syllabi
What the commissions actually expect you to know
304 pages of PDF from 3 provincial commissions, retyped into pages a phone can read, a browser can search and a link can point at one subject at a time.
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Documents
3
Commissions
89
Sections
1,247
Readings
The documents
Read a syllabus
Each one is reproduced in full. The two long documents are split so that every subject has a page of its own.
Punjab
8 min
PMS Compulsory Subjects
The six compulsory papers every PMS candidate sits, worth 600 of the written total — set out exactly as the Punjab Public Service Commission publishes them.
Punjab
2 min
PMS Optional Groups
Thirty optional subjects sorted into seven groups, of which a candidate picks three — never two from the same group. The single page that decides what the rest of your preparation looks like.
Punjab
113 min
PMS Optional Subjects
The Commission's full syllabus for twenty-seven PMS optional subjects — every paper, every topic and every recommended book, one page per subject.
Sindh
153 min
SPSC CCE Syllabus
The full revised syllabus the Sindh Public Service Commission approved in 2019 and has applied since CCE-2020 — six compulsory subjects, forty-five optionals across seven groups, and the rules that govern all of them.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2 min
PMS Officer (In-Service)
A four-paper, 400-mark written examination plus a 100-mark viva, open to serving ministerial employees competing for the 10% in-service quota under the PMS Rules, 2007.
Why this section exists
A syllabus is the only part of the exam that is published in advance
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It sets the boundary
Nothing outside the syllabus can be asked. Every hour spent on something that is not in it is an hour that cannot score.
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It carries the mark split
Many papers publish marks per component — précis 20, comprehension 20, translation 10. That is a scoring guide, printed by the examiner.
03
It names the books
The commissions list 1,247 recommended titles across these documents. You are not guessing what to read.
Before you start
Questions about these pages
Is this the official syllabus?
It is the official syllabus, retyped. Every page here is a transcription of a document the commission itself published, with the structure kept and only the typography changed. Each page names the source file it came from and links the original PDF at the foot, so you can check any line against it.
Why not just download the PDFs?
You still can — every page links its original. But a PDF is not much use on a phone, it cannot be searched from a browser, and one of these five is a 145-page photocopy with no text in it at all, so even a desktop search finds nothing. These pages are searchable, linkable and readable at any size.
How often does a syllabus change?
Rarely, and never quietly. The SPSC syllabus here was revised in 2019 and has applied since CCE-2020; the PPSC outlines for the compulsory PMS papers date from 2016. When a commission issues a revision it publishes a new document, which is when these pages get rebuilt.
Does the syllabus tell me what will be asked?
It tells you the boundary. Nothing outside it can be asked, and the commissions publish mark distributions for many papers — which is the closest thing to a scoring guide you will get. Read it alongside past papers: the syllabus is the map, the past papers show which parts of it get visited.