NTS, PTS, OTS and ETEA: Documents Required

A testing service writes and runs the test for a client department, under terms agreed with it. It does not decide your eligibility: NTS's portal says it bears no responsibility for any job offer, PTS tells candidates to read the job's own terms in the advertisement, and ETEA tests on the demand of a "client organisation".

The department's advertisement sets the qualification, the age limit, the quotas and the documents, and the department checks them. The advertisements on the services' own sites say the same things: you sit the test provisionally on what you declared, the department scrutinises your documents and sees the originals at the interview, a false claim disqualifies you at any stage, you must be eligible in all respects by the last date, and serving government employees apply through proper channel.

What happens next is in the advertisement, and it differs between departments even under one testing service. One NTS-run Punjab recruitment wanted a printed form, two photographs and attested copies of the CNIC, domicile, education and experience documents to reach NTS's Lahore office by the last date; a PTS-run Sindh recruitment wanted only the paid fee slip uploaded, with originals checked at the interview. Read your own advertisement's "terms and conditions" for:

• whether documents are uploaded, posted or brought - and by when;
• which domicile the post accepts, and the age limit with any relaxation;
• whether serving employees need an NOC as well as applying through proper channel;
• whether attested copies are asked for, and how many.

SIBA Testing Services (Sukkur IBA) wants the admit slip with your original CNIC or passport for its recruitment tests, and CTSP publishes the same identity list as NTS. For any testing service, the address printed in the department's own advertisement is the one to trust - pay fees only through the channel it names.

1. Choose the testing service on your roll number slip - or the department, if you know what it asks for.
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.

• Leaving the roll number slip for the morning of the test, or bringing a photocopy of the CNIC.
• Assuming "Eligible" on a testing-service portal means the department has found you eligible - it has not checked your documents yet.
• Skipping the NADRA E-Sahulat verification for an ETEA post until after paying the fee.
• Following another department's document list - each advertisement under the same testing service can differ.