Although the OFDM system has been gaining importance in recent years, the high peak to average power ratio is considered the main limitation of the system. The oversampling operation in the frequency-domain plays an essential role in the PAPR calculations precisely. The main purpose of the paper to draw attention to zero-padding methods which are used to oversampled baseband OFDM signals. Moreover, to study the influence of the zero-padding methods on the accuracy of the PAPR calculations, and the spectral spreading of the OFDM signals. Simulation results show that the zero-padding method which inserts the zeros at the center of the baseband OFDM signal is better than the other zero-padding methods in terms of both accuracy PAPR calculations and spectral distribution. Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering at University of AL-Mustansiriya Baghdad, Iraq in 1998. He received his M.S. degree from Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia in 2015. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree at Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. His research interests mainly focus on signal processing in communication, OFDM, PAPR reduction in Multicarrier system, 5G waveform design, and wireless network. Khairun Nidzam Ramli is a Senior Lecturer of Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor, Malaysia. He obtained his BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom, in 1997, and the MEng at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia, in 2004. He worked within the antennas and applied electromagnetic research group at University of Bradford, United Kingdom since 2007, on a number of projects, concentrating on antenna design and computational electromagnetics. Later, he obtained his PhD for research in electromagnetic analysis using hybrid computational techniques from the University of Bradford in 2011. His typical academic interests include wireless technologies, antennas, electromagnetics, and engineering computing. He is a member of the IEEE. Montadar Abas Taher received the B.