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CSS English Essay Past Paper 2018

CSS English Essay 2018 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. Candidates write one essay from 10 topics.

Marks
100
Time
3 hours
Topics
10

How to attempt: Make an outline and write a COMPREHENSIVE ESSAY (2500-3000 words) on any ONE of the given topics. Make sure you use different forms of discourses, e.g. exposition, argumentation, description and narration. Credit will be given for organization, relevance and clarity.

Essay topics

  1. 1Real development should transform people’s lives, not just economic statistics.
  2. 2Higher Education in Pakistan: Ills and Remedies.
  3. 3Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
  4. 4China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and its Socio-economic Implications for the Region and the World.
  5. 5Beware the barrenness of a busy life!
  6. 6The Emerging Power of Social Media: Prospects and Problems.
  7. 7In the fight against terrorism and corruption, it is imperative not to compromise human rights and civil liberties.
  8. 8The threat of Global Warming and the ways to counter it.
  9. 9Will “Rule of law” always remain an impracticable myth in our country?
  10. 10Democracy in Pakistan: Hopes and Hurdles.
  1. Make an outline and write a COMPREHENSIVE ESSAY (2500-3000 words) on any ONE of the given topics. Make sure you use different forms of discourses, e.g. exposition, argumentation, description and narration. Credit will be given for organization, relevance and clarity.
  2. No Page/Space be left blank between the answer. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.

FPSC's wording, numbering and marks, as printed. Obvious misprints (a garbled word, a broken number) are corrected; everything else is kept as FPSC printed it.

The written exam starts with the MPT

Only candidates who pass the MCQ screening test (MPT) sit the written papers. Practice the 200-question MPT under exam conditions first.