PPSC Assistant Director (Research) Past Papers MCQs 2025

Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) has conducted MCQ-based exam on 12-04-2025 for the recruitment of Assistant Director Research.
Therefore, we have decided to share PPSC Assistant Director Research MCQs which were included in the recently conducted examination.

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Here are the MCQs questions which were included in the test paper of PPSC Assistant Director Research MCQs test.

1. Which country has an unwritten constitution?
2. Which country is known as the land of a thousand lakes?
3. If the price of a product after a 20% discount is 596, what is the original price?
4. When was the August Offer made before partition?
5. In which year was the Indian National Congress founded?
6. Synonym of “prolong”?
7. One picosecond is equal to?
8. Who is the only U.S. president who resigned?
9. Who coined the term “sociology”?
10. What happens when an industry operates beyond the optimum level?
11. Convectional rain occurs with cyclones or thunderstorms?
12. Is the Economic Commission for Europe an autonomous body of the UN?
13. What is the meaning of the idiom “get your goat”?
14. Antonym of “docile”?
15. Do electromagnetic waves travel faster than the speed of light?
16. What does the COUNT() function denote in MS Excel?
17. What is a pixel?
18. Correct the idiom: “laugh in one’s sleeves”
19. Who is the author of the book Songs of Blood and Sword?
20. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military — (Author?)
21. Usama bin Laden (Operation Neptune Spear)
22. Baltit Fort is located in?
23. Unit of speed?
24. “Women: Two Steps Forward” — (reference?)
25. Meaning of “apple-pie order”?
26. Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia was published in which year?
27. Who was Thomas Malthus?
28. A book by Ibn Arabi?
29. What is meant by bureaucratic least dysfunction?
30. Socialization affects which part of the self?
    A) I
    B) Me
    C) I and Me
    D) None
31. Theory of id, ego, and superego?
32. Due to deforestation, which can increase?
    1) Soil fertility
    2) Soil moisture
    3) Erosion
33. The Durand Line was formed after which Anglo war?
34. The Ottomans were successors of which dynasty?
35. To examine the relationship between two variables, can we use Pearson correlation?
    (Options: T-test, ANOVA, Chi-square — which is best?)
36. When using a keyboard, keys are converted by:
    A) EBCDIC
    B) ASCII — Which is correct?
37. If I write A20;A31 in Excel, what does it mean?
38. Can “ethnography” be considered a word close to “cultural group”?
39. What is “carrying capacity” in environmental science?
40. Due to currency devaluation, which price will rise — domestic price of imports or foreign price of imports?
41. Which of the following is not primary data?
    a) Biography
    b) Autobiography
    c) Archival data
42. What kind of data is a biography?
43. What is the research called that is conducted to enhance knowledge?
44. 44. Under which ordinance do NGOs in Pakistan work?
    (Options included three laws; the last option was “All of these”)
45. The Bara River in Peshawar drains into which river?
46. Which salt is used to melt ice?
47. Is the cell membrane the outermost boundary of a plant cell or an animal cell?