Originally Posted by usman khalid

You are right that it proved disastrous during CSS 2010. But scoring trend may change dramatically in differnt years. So, one never knows whats gonna happen in a particular year. Journalism has been always a good choice of CSS aspirants because it has been one of the scoring subjects. The reason of fatal result of Journalism in CSS 2010 might be large no of candidates opting this subject. FPSC might have hit it badly to discourage this trend. In CSS 2011, comparitively fewer candidates opted this subject. Therefore, it may again turn out to be scoring in 2012.