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CSS English Essay Past Paper 2020

CSS English Essay 2020 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. 1Do we really need literature in our lives?
  2. 2Women universities as agents of change.
  3. 3Pakistan and the future of Kashmir cause.
  4. 4Polarized politics: the issues and challenges of democracy in Pakistan.
  5. 5Global power dynamics and Pakistan’s foreign policy.
  6. 6Pakistan’s informal economy: the way forward.
  7. 7Promoting tourism in Pakistan: opportunities and challenges.
  8. 8I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
  9. 9Is Pakistan ready for digital revolution?
  10. 10IMF bailouts: roads to stability or recipes for disaster.
  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.