CSS 2026 MPT Solved Paper

The CSS 2026 MCQ-Based Preliminary Test (MPT) was conducted on November 9, 2025. To aid future aspirants, the CSS Exam Desk has compiled a solved paper based on questions gathered from public social media channels and candidate reports. Please note that this is a community-sourced compilation. We encourage candidates who appeared in the exam to help us enhance its accuracy by suggesting additions or corrections in the comments section below.

1. Sarīyya (Arabic: سريَّة) is the kind of battles in which the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sent a group led by one of the companions but he (PBUH) did not participate in them.
2. The project — branded the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, or TRIPP — allow Azerbaijan to link its Nakhchivan exclave to the rest of its territory via Armenia’s Syunik province.
3. On December 18, 2024, the U.S. under the presidency of Joe Biden imposed sanctions on four Pakistani entities. The statement issued by the U.S. Department of State alleged that these entities had contributed to Pakistan’s long-range ballistic missile programme.
4. In August 2023, Pakistan announced the suspension of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline due to the threat of U.S. sanctions, highlighting the ongoing pressures and uncertainties surrounding the initiative.
5. The Russia-Pakistan gas pipeline project is named the Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline (PSGP). It was formerly known as the North-South gas pipeline, and sometimes as PakSteam. The project is designed to transport liquefied natural gas from Karachi to Kasur.
6. Surah Al-Ma’ida (سورة المائدة) and translated as The Table Spread. The Surah is named after the word “Ma’ida” (meaning “table spread”) mentioned in verses 112 and 114.
7. “As-Sab‘-ut-Tiwāl” (the seven long surahs) is a name given to a set of surahs of the Qur’an arranged in the “mus’haf” (physical copy of the Qur’an) in the following order: Al-Baqarah, Āl ‘Imrān, An-Nisā, Al-Mā’idah, Al-An‘ām, Al-A‘rāf, and the seventh one consists of Al-Anfāl and At-Tawbah together, which were considered one surah because they are not separated by the “basmalah” (“Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem” [in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful]).
8. In September 2025, President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Chengdu (China) to kick off the first leg of his 10-day official visit to China. The discussions encompassed Pakistan-China bilateral relations, with a particular focus on economic and trade cooperation, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and future connectivity initiatives.
9. With glaciers disappearing at an alarming rate, 2025 has been designated by the United Nations as the Year of International Glacier Preservation.
10. Palestinian-origin Omar Yaghi, Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of molecular architecture.
11. Dower (mehr) is an Islamic concept mentioned in the Holy Quran— Surah An-Nisa verse 4 and Surah Al-Baqrah verses 236-7. Mehr is a payment a Muslim man gives his wife upon marriage, a right given to women by Allah, and is paid directly to the woman, not relatives.
12. India and Pakistan in early May 2025, engaged in the worst fighting between the two nuclear powers in decades. The military conflict between Pakistan and India in May 2025 lasted for four days, from May 7 to May 10, 2025, which is exactly 96 hours.
13. October 8, 2025, was the 20th anniversary of the devastating magnitude 7.6 Kashmir earthquake that occurred on October 8, 2005.
14. Through the so-called Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act (2019), the Indian government also divided the occupied territory into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature and Ladakh without a legislature.
15. بالِ جبریل میں شامل مسجدِ قرطبہ علامہ اقبال، بلاشبہ اردو شاعری کی بڑی نظموں میں سے ہے۔ یہ ہسپانیہ میں مسجدِ قرطبہ کی زیارت کے بعد لِکھی گئی۔
16. The hepatitis A virus (HAV) is transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food and water or through direct contact with an infectious person.
17. Phospholipids are predominant or most abundant lipids in the cell membrane.
18. Sulfur hexafluoride ((SF_{6})) has the highest global warming potential (GWP) of 23,900 over a 100-year period, meaning it traps heat far more effectively than carbon dioxide.
19. Nizamuddin Auliya was the fourth spiritual successor of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer — the founder of the illustrious Order of Chishti saints in the Indian subcontinent.