The Punjab Public Service Commission sets a single objective paper for most of the posts it advertises. Practising it well means practising the right subjects, in roughly the proportion the paper uses them, rather than reading one thick book front to back.
Why practise by subject rather than by paper
A mixed set of a hundred questions tells you your score. It does not tell you what to do next. Working through one subject at a time does, because a run of wrong answers in the same place is a gap you can actually close — a period of history you never covered, a formula you half-remember, a rule of grammar you have been guessing at.
Once a subject stops surprising you, mix them again to rehearse the real thing. Use the subject buttons above for the first phase and the whole bank for the second.
How much each subject is worth
The exact split depends on the advertisement for the post you are applying for, and PPSC does change it between posts. What stays stable is the shape: General Knowledge, Pakistan Studies and Islamic Studies together carry the largest share, Everyday Science and English come next, and the remainder is split between Current Affairs, Mathematics and basic Computer Science.
Check your own advertisement before you plan a timetable around any specific numbers. Anyone quoting one fixed breakdown for all PPSC posts is quoting one advertisement and calling it the rule.
Attempting the paper
Most PPSC objective papers apply negative marking, so an answer you have no basis for costs more than a blank. An answer where you have eliminated two options is usually worth attempting; a pure guess between four is usually not. Decide your own rule before the test rather than in the hall.
Time is the other constraint. Work in one pass, mark anything that needs more than about forty-five seconds, and come back. Candidates lose more marks to three hard questions eating the last twenty minutes than they lose to not knowing enough.
Current affairs go stale
Current affairs questions are the fastest part of any question bank to go out of date, here as anywhere else. Treat them as practice in the kind of thing that gets asked — appointments, summits, sporting results, treaty names — and confirm anything recent against a current source before you rely on it.
Where to go next
The buttons above lead into the subject banks, each question with its answer and a written explanation. If you want the study order and the test pattern rather than the questions themselves, the PPSC preparation guide covers those.