Compulsory · GK-II · 100 marks
Pakistan's internal and external affairs alongside global issues. The events change every year; the way FPSC frames them does not.
24 papers, 2000 to 2024
Current Affairs looks like the paper where old papers are useless, since the events are gone. The opposite is true. The events date, but the analytical frame does not, and that frame is what the examiner is marking.
FPSC lists this paper as General Knowledge Paper-II (Current Affairs).
CSS 2025 mean score
38.9/100
That is the average mark real candidates scored on this paper in CSS 2025, against a 40 percent pass requirement. Our full analysis breaks down the score spread, pass rates and provincial split for all six compulsory papers.
Read the CSS 2025 compulsory results analysisRead old questions for their verbs. FPSC rarely asks what happened; it asks candidates to "critically discuss", "explain its potential advantages, challenges and future prospects", or "discuss the core causes and consequences". Learning that register is most of the paper.
Map the recurring axes: Pakistan and the United States, Pakistan and China, CPEC, Afghanistan, India, the balance of payments, climate and water, and Pakistan’s position in multilateral bodies. Nearly every year draws from this set.
Use the older papers as a record of how an issue was framed while it was live. A 2011 question on drone strikes and a 2022 question on the Ukraine war are the same question about sovereignty and alignment.
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