CSS Precis & Composition Past Paper 2012

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN B.P.S. 17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2001.
ENGLISH (PRECISE AND COMPOSITION)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
(Part I, MCQs) 30 Minutes - Maximum Marks: 20
(Part II) 2 Hours & 30 Minutes: Maximum Marks: 80
Note: (i) Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Question Paper.
(ii) Overwriting/cutting of the options/answers will not be given credit.
PART-II
Note: (i) Part II is to be attempted on separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt all questions from Part II
(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
Q.2. Make a precise of the following passage and suggest a suitable heading. (20)
One of the most ominous and discreditable symptoms of the want of candour in present-day sociology is the deliberate
neglect of the population question. It is or should be transparently clear that if the State is resolved, on humanitarian
grounds, to inhibit the operation of natural selection, some rational regulation of population, both as regards quantity
and quality, is
imperatively necessary. There is no self-acting adjustment, apart from starvation, of numbers to the means of
subsistence. If all natural checks are removed, a population in advance of the optimum number will be produced, and
maintained at the cost of a reduction in the standard of living. When this pressure begins to be felt, that section of the
population which is capable of reflection, and which has a standard of living which may be lost, will voluntarily restrict its
numbers, even to the point of failing to replace deaths by an equivalent number of new births; while the underworld,
which always exists in every civilised society the failures and misfits and derelicts, moral and physical will exercise no
restraint, and will be a constantly increasing drain upon the national resources. The population will thus be recruited, in
a very undue proportion, by those strata of society which do not possess the qualities of useful citizens.
The importance of the problem would seem to be sufficiently obvious. But politicians know that the subject is unpopular.
The unborn have no votes. Employers like a surplus of labour, which can be drawn upon when trade is good. Militarists
want as much food for powder as they can get. Revolutionists instinctively oppose any real remedy for social evils; they
know that every unwanted child is a potential insurgent. All three can appeal to a quasi-religious prejudice, resting
apparently on the ancient theory of natural rights, which were supposed to include the right of unlimited procreation.
This objection is now chiefly urged by celibate or childless priests; but it is held with such fanatical vehemence that the
fear of losing the votes which they control is a welcome excuse for the baser sort of politician to shelve the subject as
inopportune. The Socialist calculation is probably erroneous; for experience has shown that it is aspiration, not
desperation, that makes revolutions.
Q.3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Use your own language. (20)
Human beings are afraid of death just as children feel afraid of darkness. The fear of darkness of kids increased by the
stories of the heard ghosts and thieves. In the same way, the fear of human being is increased by the stories which
they heard about the agony of dying man. If a human being regards death as a kind of punishment for his sins he has
committed and if he looks upon death as a means of making an entry into another world, he is certainly taking a
religious and sacred view of death. But if a human being looks upon death as a law of nature and then feels afraid of it,
his attitude is of cowardice. However, even in religious meditations about death there is sometimes a mixture of folly
and superstition. Monks have written books in which they have described the painful experiences which they underwent
by inflicting physical tortures upon themselves as a form of self purification. Thus, one may think that the pains of death
must be indescribably agonizing. Such books and such thoughts increase a man's fear of death.
Seneca, the Roman Philosopher is of the view that the circumstances and ceremonies of death frighten people more
than death itself would do. A dyeing man is heard uttering groans; his body is seen undergoing convulsions; his face
appears to be absolutely bloodless and pale; at his death his friends begin to weep and his relations put on mourning
clothes; various rituals are performed. All such facts make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise.
What is the difference between human beings' fear of death and children's fear of darkness?
What is a religious and sacred view of death?
What are the painful experiences described by the Monks in their books?
What are the views of Seneca about death?
What are the facts that make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise?
Q.4 Write a comprehensive note (250 - 300) on any ONE of the following:
Self done is Well done
The Bough that bears most bend most
Nearer the Church, farther from God
Rich men have no fault
Cut your coat according to your cloth
Q.5 Use ONLY FIVE of the following in sentences which illustrate their meaning. Extra attempt shall not be considered.
Wool gathering
Under the harrow
Cold comfort
A gold digger
Walk with God

On the thin ice

A queer fish
Unearthly hour
Q.6 (a) Correct ONLY FIVE of the following: Extra attempt shall not be considered.
A ten feet long snake made people run here and there
We are going to the concert, and so they are.
Enclosed with this letter was a signed Affidavit and a carbon copy of his request to our main office.
Fear from God.
Pakistan has and will support the Kashmiris.
He has come yesterday.
Arshad's down fall was due to nothing else than pride.
Do not avoid to consult a doctor.
(b) Change the narration from direct to indirect or indirect to direct speech (DO ONLY FIVE). Extra attempt shall not be
considered.
He said to us, "You cannot do this problem alone".
The beggar asked the rich lady if she could not pity the sufferings of an old and miserable man and help him with a
rupee or two.
The Commander said to the soldiers, "March on".
He entreated his master respectfully to pardon him as it was his first fault.
"Do you really come from America? How do you feel in Pakistan?" Said I the stranger.
The officer threatened the peon to come in time otherwise he would be turned out.
People wished that the Quaid e Azam had been alive those days to their fate.
They said, "Brave! Imran, what a shot".

Compitive Examination for

Recruitment to posts in BS-17
Under the federal government of Pakistan, 2011

Essay

Time allowed: Three Houres

Maximum Marks: 100
NOTE: Make an outline and write a Comprihensive Essay (2500-3500 words) on any one of the following.

1. Truth is a rare commodity despite the freedom enjoys by the print media and electronic media.
2. Whithout good comunication skills, life becomes impossible in the modern world.
3. The time we live in is the winter of the world.
4. In this country reason does not apply to anything.
5. Does pakistani society regard women as the angle in the house of the source of all evils?
6. Disaster managment and govenment preparedness.
7. Fair play and life, as it is lived, in the land of poor.
8. The pleasure of reading.
9. What are the hurdles in our way to becoming a truely indipendent state?
10. Insanity in individual is something rare but groups, parties and nations it is the rule.