Candidates after successfully passed css written test and css medical test will take part in css psychological test. css exam psychological assessment test with rules and regulation are described on this page
CSS Psychological Test 2025
Updated September 2025 FPSC has released the CSS Psychological Test Schedule 2025 for the following centres. Applied candidates can check the complete schedule, including time, venue, and roll numbers, through the official link provided on the FPSC website.
Centers Included:
Lahore – Tests scheduled from 12 June to 21 June 2025 at FPSC Provincial Office, Mustafa Town, Wahdat Road.
Islamabad – Latest phase of Psychological Assessments announced for CE-2024 candidates in mid-2025.
Peshawar – Revised schedule for CE-2024 Psychological Assessment released in August 2025.
Important Notes for Candidates
Bring all original documents, filled application form, educational profile, undertaking, and two recent passport-size photographs on the test day.
No request for change of centre or date will be entertained.
Viva Voce (final interview) schedule will be announced later after the psychological assessments are completed.
How to Check Your Schedule Visit the FPSC official website and open the “CSS CE-2024 Psychological Assessment Schedule 2025” section to download the PDF for your centre.
CSS candidates will know and understand the importance of passing the required CSS psychological test as it is made compulsory by the FPSC in order to be deemed successful towards CSS examination. After candidates have passed their CSS examination written test, CSS medical test, they are required to undergo CSS psychological assessment in order to validate their personality traits, behavior aspects and mental capabilities for successfully caring out their civil department job duties.
CSS Psychological Assessment Test
Prospective CSS candidates will be required to undergo a series of tests phases including written test and group discussions which will validate candidate’s CSS phychological test traits through candidate behavior observation and candidate interview with concerned department psychologists. The CSS candidates will be required to show their intelligence abilities through psychological written test which will highlight prospective candidate’s verbal ability, numerical ability, personality test, abstract ability test and showcase candidate’s personality by personality test.
CSS Psychological Assessment 2025 Test Schedule
The Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) has officially conducted the CSS Psychological Assessments 2025 for candidates who successfully cleared the written and medical stages of the Competitive Examination (CE-2024). These assessments are a mandatory step before the final Viva Voce (interview) and are held at FPSC headquarters and regional offices. Below are the latest centre-wise details for the year 2025.
CSS Psychological Assessment 2025 Schedule
Examination
Exam Centre
Date / Duration (2025)
Status
CSS Psychological Assessment
Islamabad
May 2025 (Phase I & II)
Completed
CSS Psychological Assessment
Lahore
12 – 21 June 2025
Completed
CSS Psychological Assessment
Peshawar
25 August 2025 (Revised Schedule)
Completed
Important Update
As of September 2025, FPSC has not announced any further psychological test dates for the remaining months of the year.
The next stage of the CSS Competitive Examination will be the Viva Voce (final interviews), for which the schedule will be released soon.
Candidates are advised to keep checking the FPSC official website for any new updates or additional phases.
CSS Psychological Test Importance
The css candidates will be required to undertake physiological group discussion included in CSS psychological test to analyze and evaluate the respective candidate's knowledge, confidence, work skills, assertiveness, articulation and working within a specific time period. Afterwards CSS candidates will be required to undergo a small interview with a panel of psychologists to show their psychological findings as well as clear any ambiguity regarding information provided by the candidate.
Psychological Assessment Test Details
Written test
Group discussion
Psychological Exam Written Test
A series of ability and personality test would be administered. The result drawn from the psychological test will future validated from different resources like behavioral information, observations and one-to-one interview with psychologists.
Intelligent Test Ability Detail
Test Name
Explanation
Abstract Ability
This also known as conceptual reasoning test, it aims to determine individual ability to quickly identify the relationship between patterns, logical rules and integrate this information to find out best possible solutions. You will be presented with sets of shapes having logical relationship and your tasks is to identify the most suitable shapes that comes next in the sequence. The purpose of this tasks is quickly assess your capability of analyzing new information and thinking strategies to solve problems.
Verbal Ability
The verbal aptitude test measures your ability to understand and communicate information by asking you to identify words analogies or synonyms/antonyms.
Numerical Ability
This ability or reasoning test will measure your ability by presented the scenario in basic numerical form for making best decisions.
All these mentioned test are to be performed within the allotted time. it is advice to done these task as soon as possible because when tasks start its easy but gradually gets more difficult.
Personality Test
These tests are usually of different types and held to predict your basic personality characteristics such as Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion/Introversion, Agreeability along with your maturity level, confidence, optimism, ability to handle stress and solve different problems, your leadership qualities as well.
Personality Trait Questionnaire
There are 2 types of personality questionnaire that will be asked during the test:
That test in which you answer only yes or no format
The other consists of open-ended questions in that demand your preferences, likes, dislikes , interests, etc.
Question will be asked on
Explanation
Story Writing
here presented the black and white picture of human life and you are supposed to understand these that you are to tell a story and not merely describe the picture.Story consists of 4 important elements
Sentence Completion
First word and words are provided and will be asked to complete a sentence. For Example;
Autobiography
Autobiography is a written account of the life of a person. In other words, it’s a brief story about the history of a person written by himself
Your writing should be so organized and systematic that I should be eager to meet you in one-to-one interview.In autobiography, you are supposed to write details of your life history, which includes
CSS Exam Psychological Group Discussion
Group discussion also designed to assess the candidate's behavior in group activities, engaged the candidates into some group activities for the purpose to analyze their group performance and habits. The aim of group discussion is to evaluate personality, confidence, assertiveness, articulation, knowledge and your ability, skills required to work others within a given time. This includes 2 group discussions one is urdu and second is english.
Interview with Psychologists
The same day, after the group session is over, you will meet a panel of psychologists for a brief interview who at the end prepare a collaborated report on the information you have provided about your personality, ability and aptitude in the 2-days activity. They may asked additional information about yourself, justification for the preferences that you have mentioned in your written personality test and to clear any ambiguity if encountered in your writing.You may also be asked about your opinion on various social and political scenarios happening both in Pakistan and on international Level.
CSS Psychological Test Rules 2025
Separate marks will not be entitled to psychological assessment.
300 marks of the viva also affect the performance of psychological evaluation.
If a person will not appear in a psychological judgment, the candidate will not allowed to appear in the viva exams.
Psychological assessment and viva contain combined 300 marks.
The Candidate should bring their Three password size photographies and national identity card in the psychological assessment.
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