Pakistan Studies MCQs for PPSC, FPSC & CSS — 100 Most Repeated Questions (1857 to 1973)

100 most repeated Pakistan Studies MCQs for PPSC, FPSC and CSS, from 1857 to the 1973 Constitution — movements, acts, constitutions and revision tips.

By Muhammad Younus · Updated 31 Oct 2026 · 9 min read

Pakistan Studies is the highest-scoring part of most one-paper tests for one simple reason: the questions repeat. The same movements, the same acts and the same constitutions come back in PPSC, FPSC, NTS and CSS screening papers year after year, usually with the same wrong options as traps. This post collects 100 of the most repeated Pakistan Studies MCQs, from the War of Independence in 1857 to the Constitution of 1973, with answers you can revise in a single sitting. It is written for PPSC one-paper candidates, FPSC screening-test candidates and CSS MPT aspirants, and every answer below is a settled textbook fact, not a guess.

Read actively: cover the answer, say it, then check. Mark the ones you miss and revise only those twice more before sleeping.

1857 to 1906 — The War, Aligarh and the First Organisations

1. The War of Independence began on 10 May 1857 at — Meerut
2. The cartridges that sparked the 1857 revolt were rumoured to be greased with — Cow and pig fat
3. Mangal Pandey revolted on 29 March 1857 at — Barrackpore
4. The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, was exiled by the British to — Rangoon (Burma)
5. After the 1857 War, rule passed from the East India Company to the British Crown under the — Government of India Act 1858
6. Queen Victoria's Proclamation announcing direct Crown rule was read on 1 November 1858 at — Allahabad
7. The Viceroy of India during the War of Independence was — Lord Canning
8. The Rani of Jhansi, Lakshmi Bai, died fighting the British in 1858 at — Gwalior
9. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan explained the causes of the 1857 revolt in his book — Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind (1859)
10. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was born in 1817 at — Delhi
11. Sir Syed founded the Scientific Society in 1864 at — Ghazipur
12. Sir Syed started the journal Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq in — 1870
13. The Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was founded in — 1875
14. The MAO College, Aligarh, became Aligarh Muslim University in — 1920
15. The Urdu-Hindi controversy, which pushed Sir Syed towards separate Muslim politics, broke out in 1867 at — Banaras
16. Darul Uloom Deoband was founded in — 1866
17. Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam was founded in 1884 at — Lahore
18. The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885; its first session was held at — Bombay
19. The first president of the Indian National Congress was — W. C. Banerjee
20. The founder of the Indian National Congress was — A. O. Hume
21. Sir Syed founded the Muhammadan Educational Conference in — 1886
22. The Simla Deputation of Muslims met Viceroy Lord Minto in 1906 under the leadership of — Aga Khan
23. The Simla Deputation's main demand was — Separate electorates for Muslims
24. The All India Muslim League was founded on 30 December 1906 at — Dhaka
25. The first president of the All India Muslim League was — Aga Khan

1906 to 1935 — Reforms, Pacts and Movements

1. Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy — Lord Curzon
2. The Partition of Bengal was annulled in — 1911
3. The Minto-Morley Reforms are the — Indian Councils Act 1909
4. Separate electorates for Muslims were first accepted in law by the — Act of 1909
5. Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the Muslim League in — 1913
6. The Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League was signed in — 1916
7. Sarojini Naidu called Jinnah the — Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity
8. The Home Rule League was started in 1916 by — Bal Gangadhar Tilak (and Annie Besant)
9. Dyarchy (divided provincial subjects) was introduced by the — Government of India Act 1919
10. The Rowlatt Act was passed in — 1919
11. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919 at — Amritsar
12. The British officer responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh firing was — General Dyer
13. The Khilafat Movement was launched in 1919; its leading figures were the — Ali Brothers (Muhammad Ali Jauhar and Shaukat Ali)
14. The Khilafat Movement ended in 1924 when — Turkey abolished the Caliphate
15. Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement began in — 1920
16. Gandhi called off Non-Cooperation after the Chauri Chaura incident in — February 1922
17. The Simon Commission was appointed in 1927 and arrived in India in — 1928
18. Indians boycotted the Simon Commission because — It had no Indian member
19. The Nehru Report was published in — 1928
20. Jinnah's Fourteen Points were presented in — March 1929
21. Allama Iqbal delivered his Allahabad Address in — 1930
22. The First Round Table Conference was held in London in — 1930–31
23. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in — March 1931
24. The Communal Award was announced in 1932 by — Ramsay MacDonald
25. The Poona Pact of 1932 was signed between Gandhi and — Dr B. R. Ambedkar

1935 to 1947 — The Road to Pakistan

1. The Government of India Act was passed in — 1935
2. Under the Act of 1935, Sindh was separated from the Bombay Presidency in — 1936
3. In the 1937 provincial elections, the Congress formed ministries in — Seven provinces
4. The Congress ministries resigned in 1939 because — India was dragged into the Second World War without consulting Indians
5. The Muslim League observed 22 December 1939 as the — Day of Deliverance
6. The Pirpur Report (1938) documented Congress ministries' treatment of Muslims; it was prepared under — Raja Syed Muhammad Mehdi of Pirpur
7. The word "Pakistan" was coined by Chaudhry Rehmat Ali in his 1933 pamphlet — Now or Never
8. The Lahore Resolution was passed on — 23 March 1940
9. The Lahore Resolution was moved by — A. K. Fazlul Haq
10. The Lahore Resolution was passed at — Minto Park, Lahore
11. The August Offer was made by the British in — 1940
12. The Cripps Mission came to India in — March 1942
13. The Quit India Movement was launched in August 1942 with Gandhi's call — Do or Die
14. The Gandhi-Jinnah talks of 1944 — Failed
15. The Simla Conference (Wavell Plan) was held in — 1945
16. In the 1945–46 elections, the Muslim League won — All 30 Muslim seats in the Central Assembly
17. The Cabinet Mission Plan was announced in — May 1946
18. Direct Action Day was observed by the Muslim League on — 16 August 1946
19. The Interim Government took office on 2 September 1946; Liaquat Ali Khan held the — Finance portfolio
20. The 3 June Plan for partition was announced in 1947 by — Lord Mountbatten
21. The Indian Independence Act was passed in — July 1947
22. Pakistan came into being on — 14 August 1947
23. The Radcliffe Award on the boundaries was announced on — 17 August 1947
24. Pakistan's first Governor-General was — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
25. Pakistan's first Prime Minister was — Liaquat Ali Khan

1947 to 1973 — Constitutions, Wars and New Directions

1. Pakistan joined the United Nations on — 30 September 1947
2. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah died on — 11 September 1948
3. The ceasefire in Kashmir came into effect on — 1 January 1949
4. The Objectives Resolution was passed on 12 March 1949; it was moved by — Liaquat Ali Khan
5. Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated on 16 October 1951 at — Rawalpindi
6. The first Constituent Assembly was dissolved on 24 October 1954 by — Ghulam Muhammad
7. One Unit, merging West Pakistan into a single province, was created in — 1955
8. Pakistan's first Constitution was enforced on — 23 March 1956
9. Under the 1956 Constitution, Pakistan became an — Islamic Republic
10. The first President of Pakistan under the 1956 Constitution was — Iskander Mirza
11. The 1956 Constitution declared the national languages — Urdu and Bengali
12. The first martial law in Pakistan was imposed on — 7 October 1958
13. Ayub Khan took over as President on — 27 October 1958
14. Ayub Khan introduced the Basic Democracies system in — 1959
15. The Indus Waters Treaty between Pakistan and India was signed on 19 September 1960 with the help of the — World Bank
16. The 1962 Constitution was promulgated on 1 March 1962 and enforced on — 8 June 1962
17. The 1962 Constitution introduced a — Presidential system
18. Pakistan's capital was shifted from Karachi to Islamabad in — 1967
19. The Tashkent Declaration ending the 1965 War was signed in January 1966 between Ayub Khan and — Lal Bahadur Shastri
20. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman announced his Six Points at Lahore in — February 1966
21. Ayub Khan resigned and Yahya Khan imposed martial law on — 25 March 1969
22. The general elections of 1970 were the first held on the basis of — Adult franchise (one man, one vote)
23. In the 1970 elections, the Awami League won 167 seats and the Pakistan Peoples Party won — 81 seats
24. The Simla Agreement between Pakistan and India was signed on 2 July 1972 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and — Indira Gandhi
25. The Constitution of 1973 was enforced on — 14 August 1973

How Examiners Ask This Topic

Examiners rarely ask a bare date. They test the same fact from four angles, so learn each fact with its person, place and document attached:

• The trap option: for the Lahore Resolution they offer 22, 23 and 24 March — the session ran 22–24 March, but the resolution passed on 23 March.
• The person swap: the Simla Deputation (Aga Khan, 1906) is confused with the Simla Conference (Wavell, 1945). Same city, different event, forty years apart.
• The Act confusion: 1909 gives separate electorates, 1919 gives dyarchy, 1935 gives provincial autonomy. Learn the three Acts as one chain.
• The constitution chain: 1956 is parliamentary and Islamic Republic; 1962 is presidential; 1973 is parliamentary again. If a question asks "which constitution was presidential", the answer is always 1962.

Memory Tips That Actually Work

• Build one timeline, not many lists. Write 1857, 1885, 1906, 1916, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1947, 1956, 1962 and 1973 on a single page, then hang every other date on the nearest anchor.
• Pair the reforms with their Viceroy: Minto-Morley with Minto, Montagu-Chelmsford with Chelmsford, Curzon with the Bengal partition. Exam questions love the pairing.
• Learn constitutions as a table in your head: 1956 parliamentary, 234 articles; 1962 presidential, 250 articles; 1973 parliamentary, 280 articles. One row per constitution, revised daily for a week.
• Do the last ten years of past papers for this topic only. You will find that at least half of these 100 questions have already appeared in almost the same words.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Pakistan Studies questions come in a PPSC one-paper test?

There is no fixed number, because the paper mixes Pakistan Studies with Current Affairs, Islamic Studies, Geography, English, Urdu, Everyday Science and Mathematics. Expect a solid block of Pakistan Studies questions in every paper, and the ones above are the most repeated of them.

Is the 1857–1973 range enough for FPSC and CSS MPT too?

Yes, for the history portion. FPSC screening tests and the CSS MPT draw their Pakistan history questions from exactly this range — movements, reforms, the freedom struggle and the three constitutions. Current affairs after 1973 is a separate topic and needs separate revision.

What is the difference between the Lahore Resolution and the Pakistan Resolution?

They are the same resolution. It was passed as the Lahore Resolution on 23 March 1940; the Hindu press began calling it the Pakistan Resolution, and the name stuck.

Which constitution should I revise most carefully?

The 1973 Constitution, because it is the current one and is asked about most, followed by the 1956 Constitution as the first. If you only have one evening, revise the 1973 Constitution's type (parliamentary), its enforcement date (14 August 1973) and its Islamic provisions.

Do I need to memorise all 100 answers, or is understanding enough?

Memorise the answers. Pakistan Studies MCQs test recall, not analysis — the paper rewards the candidate who has seen the exact question before. Understanding helps you avoid traps, but the mark comes from instant recall.

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