Federal Public Service Commission will hold screening test prior to written CSS competitive examination in February next year.

This was announced by Special Assistant on Establishment Division Shehzad Arbab while addressing a news conference along with Chairman Federal Public Service Commission (retired) Captain Zahid Saeed in Islamabad today [Thursday].

The Special Assistant said preliminary test is aimed at filtering and bringing in serious candidates and to reduce examination cycle from twenty to twelve months. He said it will be a knowledge based test.

Speaking on the occasion, Chairman FPSC said screening test will not be counted as a chance for CSS.

He said the test will comprise two hundred Multiple Choice Questions having one mark each and the duration to attempt the test will be two hundred minutes.