FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1993
ENGLISH ESSAY
Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50
Note: Write an Essay on any one of the following subjects:
1 “New World Order” Implications for Third World Countries.
2 Central Asia today: Emerging Political and Economic Patterns.
3. The quality of life is not measured in terms of calories alone.
4. In the quest for happiness, success is only one ingredient and is often too dearly purchased.
5. The way to hell is paved with good intentions.
6. Ideology — a strait-jacket or an instrument of meaningful change.
7. Human resource: the most critical factor in national development.
8. What a piece of work is man!” says tragedy_”. What a piece of work indeed”? says comedy.
9. Democracy and mass illiteracy do not go together.
10. Local organisation. decentralised planning, and hard work are the key to rural development.
11. Deprivation of social development and family planning cannot lead to a promising future.
12. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.”