How military service status affects your ASEP score

Military service status is one of the criteria ASEP factors into scoring for male candidates once a written exam result moves into Stage B for a specific post. It is not part of the Knowledge Test or Skills test itself, and it does not affect eligibility to sit the Panhellenic Written Exam in the first place. It becomes relevant later, when Stage B applies its full set of scoring criteria on top of your exam result.

What ASEP actually needs to know

Military obligation status is tracked through OPSYD, the information system the armed forces and ASEP both draw on to confirm a candidate’s status: whether military service has been completed, is currently pending, qualifies for a formal exemption, or was completed early or later than the standard timeline. This is a factual, documented status rather than something a candidate declares informally, and ASEP’s scoring tables treat it accordingly. If there is a discrepancy between your OPSYD record and what you believe your status to be, that is resolved through the military service authorities that maintain OPSYD, not through ASEP directly, and it needs resolving before it can affect your ASEP scoring correctly.

Where this fits in the overall Stage B picture

Military service status sits alongside other Stage B criteria such as postgraduate qualifications, relevant work experience and family circumstances, including large-family, polyteknos, status. None of these criteria affect whether you pass the written exam itself, which is governed purely by the 55 out of 100 threshold on each test; they only apply once you are already past that bar and a specific post is being filled. See how ASEP’s broader points system works for how these separate criteria combine, and what Stage B actually does for the mechanism they feed into.

What this means if your status is not yet finalised

If your military service is genuinely still pending at the point you are applying, that is a documented status like any other, and it is worth confirming through OPSYD exactly how it will register rather than guessing. Since the scoring criteria and their exact values are set out in ASEP’s information portal for each proclamation, and can be revisited in future legislation, the specific Stage B proclamation you are being scored under is the authoritative source for how your particular status will be treated, not a previous edition’s rules.

Frequently asked questions

Does military service status affect whether I can sit the written exam? No. Eligibility to sit the Panhellenic Written Exam is governed by qualification and category rules stated in the proclamation, not by military service status.

Is this criterion relevant to female candidates? Military service in Greece is generally compulsory for male citizens, so this specific Stage B criterion is primarily relevant to male candidates; other Stage B criteria apply regardless of gender.

Where is my military service status officially recorded for ASEP purposes? In OPSYD, the information system used by both the armed forces and ASEP. Any correction to that record needs to go through the military authorities that maintain it.

Does completing military service early or exceeding the requirement add extra points? The specific point values and any distinctions within completed service are set out in ASEP’s published scoring tables for the relevant proclamation; check the current Stage B proclamation for the applicable category rather than assuming a fixed figure applies across all editions.