FBR Preventive Officer study guide
FBR Preventive Officer · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The FBR Preventive Officer role is a Pakistan Customs post recruited through the Federal Board of Revenue, and the selection test is a competitive multiple-choice screening exam. It suits graduates who want a field-oriented customs career - prevention of smuggling, checking of consignments, examination of baggage and cargo, and enforcement work at ports, borders, airports and dry ports - rather than a purely desk-based tax post. The FBR Preventive Officer study guide has 9 sections and about 2,829 words.
01English
The English section of the FBR Preventive Officer test checks whether you can read a customs notice, a seizure report or a newspaper editorial and answer precisely. Expect sentence completion, synonyms and antonyms in context, idiom substitution, error spotting, active-passive and direct-indirect conversion, and one short comprehension passage.
330 words, about 2 min02General Knowledge
General Knowledge in this paper is a breadth test: capitals and currencies, international organisations and their headquarters, major rivers, deserts and straits, famous books and authors, and the standard abbreviations used in government correspondence. UN system: General Assembly in New York; Security Council with five permanent veto-holding members; International Court of Justice at The Hague; Secretariat led by the Secretary-General.
297 words, about 1 min03Pakistan Studies and Current Affairs
This domain combines constitutional and geographical facts with events of roughly the past twelve months. FBR papers usually ask structural questions - which amendment did what, which river feeds which dam - rather than opinion.
323 words, about 2 min04Islamic Studies and Ethics
Islamic Studies items test recall of pillars, sources of law and Seerat, plus applied ethics questions about conduct in public office. The ethics half is where candidates who only memorised dates lose marks.
315 words, about 2 min05Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning
The maths portion rewards method over memory. Recurring topics are percentages, ratio and proportion, averages, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, work and time, speed-distance-time, basic algebra, area and perimeter, and number series.
286 words, about 1 min06General Science and Everyday Science
Everyday Science tests whether you can explain ordinary phenomena, not recite advanced theory. Expect SI units, human body systems, vitamins and deficiency diseases, the solar system, states of matter, heat and electricity, and chemistry in daily life.
290 words, about 1 min07Computer and Information Technology
IT questions in this paper are practical: number systems, hardware versus software, memory units, operating systems, office shortcuts, networking basics, and the e-government systems a Preventive Officer actually touches. 1 byte = 8 bits; 1 KB = 1024 bytes; 1 MB = 1024 KB; 1 GB = 1024 MB; 1 TB = 1024 GB.
297 words, about 1 min08Customs Law and Procedures
This is the domain that separates a customs candidate from a generalist. The parent statute is the Customs Act, 1969, supported by the Pakistan Customs Tariff, the baggage rules for passengers, and the Sales Tax Act, 1990 for import-stage sales tax.
358 words, about 2 min09Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability
Logical reasoning is marked per question and answers are exact, so this section is the easiest place to bank marks quickly. Question types are number and letter series, analogies, coding-decoding, direction sense, blood relations, syllogisms, seating arrangement and statement-assumption.
333 words, about 2 min