Result Awaited: Can You Apply for a Government Job?

• FPSC: applications from candidates whose results were not officially announced by the board or university on or before the closing date are not considered - one of its listed reasons for rejection.
• PPSC: the qualification must be held on or before the closing date; an application whose result was not officially declared by then is not considered.
• SPSC: applications whose results were not officially announced by the closing date are not entertained, and a withheld result still undecided on that date disqualifies.
• BPSC: a candidate whose result was not officially declared by the closing date is not considered.
• KPPSC: only the qualification possessed on the closing date counts.
• AJK PSC: every condition must be met by the closing date, with the result date on the transcript as the date of completion.
• Testing-service advertisements: you must be eligible in all respects by the last date.

The date the result was officially declared - not the date you sat the last paper, and not the date the degree was printed. FPSC and AJK PSC treat the result declaration date on the transcript as the date you completed the qualification, and FPSC's online form asks for it. SPSC wants a certificate from the Controller of Examinations giving the exact date the result was announced.

Your degree may come later, and that is fine: AJK PSC accepts a detailed marks certificate or a provisional certificate from the Controller of Examinations, and SPSC the marks sheet with the Controller's certificate that the degree is being processed - as long as the result itself was declared in time.

PPSC and BPSC count two degrees obtained in the same academic year as one.

None of the commission rules we read accepts a letter saying a result is expected in place of a declared result. What they accept is proof of when the result was declared. If an advertisement itself admits result-awaited candidates, its own condition applies to that post - read it word for word.

Apply on the qualification you already hold if the post accepts it, and keep the declared result's date ready. If the post needs the qualification you are waiting for, prepare now for the next advertisement: get the result notification or transcript as soon as it is out, and check your age against the next closing date.

• Check your age on the next closing date
• PPSC document checklist

1. Choose who is recruiting - FPSC, PPSC, KPPSC, SPSC, BPSC, AJK PSC, a testing service or a department - and the kind of post.
2. Answer short questions about your domicile, government service, qualification, experience and any quota. Each is a tap, and nothing leaves your device.
3. You get your own list - every document, original or copy, and how many copies this body asks for - to tick off, print or save as a PDF.
4. Above it are the risks in your answers: red for a listed reason to reject, amber to check, green to have ready - each with what to do and the official rule.

• Counting the date of the last exam paper instead of the date the result was declared.
• Applying on a degree in progress and hoping the result comes before the test - it is the closing date that counts.
• Assuming a passed result declared a week after the closing date will be accepted at the interview.