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CSS English Essay Past Paper 2025

CSS English Essay 2025 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. Candidates write one essay from 10 topics.

Marks
100
Time
3 hours
Topics
10

How to attempt: Prepare 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. 1Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
  2. 2Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
  3. 3Reforestation as a Global Urgency.
  4. 4Hamas-Israel Conflict: A Test Case for World Conscience.
  5. 5Rich in politicians, we desperately need statesmen.
  6. 6True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
  7. 7To reign is worth ambition though in Hell.
  8. 8Frailty is no more the name of Woman.
  9. 9Dynastic politics is the worst mockery of democracy.
  10. 10An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
  1. Prepare 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. Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
  3. No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
  4. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.

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.