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Preparation For CSS Exam - Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for preparing for the CSS exam, which is very competitive with thousands of applicants each year. It outlines the key compulsory papers including English essay, current affairs, general science and ability, and Pakistan affairs. For each paper, it emphasizes the importance of practicing past papers, keeping up with current events, having strong writing skills, and studying topics at the matriculation and intermediate level from standard textbooks. Overall, candidates need to have a wide breadth of knowledge, sharp analytical abilities, and creativity to stand out in the exam.

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Preparation For CSS Exam - Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for preparing for the CSS exam, which is very competitive with thousands of applicants each year. It outlines the key compulsory papers including English essay, current affairs, general science and ability, and Pakistan affairs. For each paper, it emphasizes the importance of practicing past papers, keeping up with current events, having strong writing skills, and studying topics at the matriculation and intermediate level from standard textbooks. Overall, candidates need to have a wide breadth of knowledge, sharp analytical abilities, and creativity to stand out in the exam.

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Preparation for CSS Exam - Guidelines

CSS Exam is a dream of every talented student. According to FPSC report, 20,717 candidates applied for CSS exam in 2016. Among those, only
12,176 candidates appeared in the written exam. Out of which only 379 candidates passed the written exam.

If you are going to appear in CSS exam, keep it in mind that you will have to compete against thousands of students. It is very easy to qualify CSS
exam, provided that you make preparation in proper lines. Most of the students do not qualify CSS exam despite their hard work because they do
not make preparation in proper line. They do not know what to study and how to make preparation. Hard work is a key to success only if it is
done in the right direction leading to success.

I will share views of those students who have qualified CSS exam getting higher marks. CSS exam is designed to assess your aptitude, educational
ability and proficiency in various areas. You should be a sharp minded, intelligent and well informed student to qualify the CSS Exam. You should
have full command on your subjects. Frankly speaking, it is not only the bookish learning, but the power of your creativity to produce your
bookish learning in your papers in a way that assures your success in CSS Exam.

Preparation for each Paper: CSS exam has 12 papers including 6 compulsory and 6 optional papers.

COMPULSORY PAPERS

ENGLISH ESSAY

In essay paper, candidate has to write a comprehensive essay of about 2500 to 3500 words. You are given 10 topics, you have to write essay on
any ONE of them. It is the paper which affects your marks to great extent.

Essay paper is designed to assess your writing skills, grammatical accuracy, creativity, ideas and expression. Remember! An essay is not just a
combination of paragraphs. There are many things to consider for writing an impressive essay. First of all you should learn the structure of essay.
You should know the correct way of presenting your views in the form of paragraphs. All the paragraphs should be in correct order. Starting
paragraph should be an introductory paragraph. The next paragraphs should have starting line as introductory sentence for the same paragraph.
The last paragraph should summarize you essay.

Apart from correct structure of the essay, you should have skills of literary writing, grammatical precision, a wide range of appealing vocabulary.
It will help you in writing sentences which are grammatically accurate. For essays you should study past papers to have an idea about the topics
of essay asked in paper. You should study standard books of English essay for acquiring essay writing skills.
Reading English newspaper on daily basis can be of great help in this regard.

CURRENT AFFAIRS

In this paper, the candidate has to answer 20 MCQs in Part-I and attempt four subjective question out of 6 questions in Part-II. Apart from
studying the content of its syllabus, reading newspaper and listening to news on daily basis helps a lot in preparation for this paper. This paper
majorly asks about the ongoing national and international affairs. Besides having a good knowledge of history, you should have updated
knowledge about the political, social, cultural and religious activities happening around. You should study about International treaties,
conferences and events influencing cross border happening. Some good books are also available in market for preparation for the paper of
current affairs, such as ‘Who is who & what is what’. You should be aware of the political and social happenings and discuss it with others.

GENERAL SCIENCE & ABILITY

This paper also consists of MCQs as well as subjective questions. This paper has question related to topics of science. These questions include the
facts and issues related to everyday science e.g. global warming, Pollution, Green house effect and so on. You should have basic knowledge of
such scientific issues. Question also include easy question from Biology, Physics and Chemistry. These are the topics mostly studied in science
subject at Matric or Intermediate level. If you have already studied these subjects in Matric and Intermediate, it will be of great help for you.
Even if you have not studied these subjects in Matric or Intermediate, you can prepare these subjects for CSS Exam. Remember! These questions
are not too difficult. The paper just cover those areas from science subjects which common and general for all. Hence, study scientific facts,
principles, laws and experiments given in science subjects. Some good books are also available in market which covers these specific areas for
preparation.

PAKISTAN AFFAIRS

Questions in this paper pertain to political, social and economic activities happening in Pakistan. You should have an eye on the evolving

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