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CSS English Essay Past Paper 2023

CSS English Essay 2023 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. 1Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
  2. 2The one who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
  3. 3Not all recycling projects are cost effective.
  4. 4The fool speaks, and the wise listens.
  5. 5A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
  6. 6Online learning is not only convenient but often more effective than traditional classroom instruction.
  7. 7To encourage healthy eating, higher taxes should be imposed on soft drinks and junk food.
  8. 8People have become overly dependent on technology.
  9. 9Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child.
  10. 10Boys will be boys.
  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.