This may sound like a stupid question but I want to ask everyone who aspires to attempt CSS and those who already have attempted CSS (Qualified or not) Is giving CSS examination worth it? Especially those who attempted but unfortunately did not make it, was it worth spending so much time on preparation and when the desire result did not come what happened?

Hard work is done for achieving some desired goal. However, if one fails to achieve so, it brings so many other benefits to one in one or other shape, I believe. Therefore, doing hard work for CSS is not a matter of distress in future course of life.

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Its not a waste of time. People preparing for css exams learnt and in fact learning a great amount of knowledge which help them in the future also in case one is not able to clear the css exams.
(Life is hard)

Its not worth it if you don't have a backup plan in your life to fall back on if not being able to make it after going through the tough and lengthy process of CSS preparation and examination(spread on years). it will only leave you with feeling of lifetime regret and depression. That is not a emotional statement. This is reality.
Although if you are successful through a rare combination of hard work and good luck than all the struggle behind becomes history and a prestigious career begins.

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guyz i a am also ambivalent as to choose law as a career or appear in css, no matter how much i try i cant decide,seniors plz ccomment

soon after we complete degree there are family expectations (job).
If we go for css leaving behind job and higher studies we feel mentally ill because oppertunity cort is high,
The fear that if we fail, there will no profesional experience to start career, or our age exceeds for job or higher study.


no matter how much one is intelligent or hardworking CSS preparation is like a project and requires time.
There fore we must have to choose either to go for job, study or css.
Trouble is more for those who are poor and when times comes to decide we have to sacrify one of our ambition, we can't carry all things together, and if we will not achieve most from any.

It is worth trying my dears!!! Not only for the sake of a prestigious career but also to groom your personality & broaden your vision. Your ideas about life, people, society, politics, economics, in short about everthing change & you become much more practical as as visionary. Your language & communication skills are so much polished & become so much sophisticated that you stand out of yhe rest at your office or in daily life, such a petson is bound to progress & outshine bcause, those who work in offices know that afterall, it is these communication skillls that mattet the the most in one's career progression. I haven't seen any person who ever attempted css as unsuccessful in his life. Give it a try-at least once- keeping in mind that either you pass or fail, you will not be at loss.Otherwise, you will remain a narrow minded person who knows nothing else than his own profession, whether he is a doctor, an engineer or a teacher. In other words, you would be living the worthless life of a typical worker of the industrial age... Think about it!

It is just an exam,consider as such,try ur level best to overcome it but don't you ever get obsess with it, it does not matter you win or lose,you must try. Many peoples including me tried it just to examine abilities nothing else. if you manage to pass it, its well and good, but if not, don't consider urself unworthy. either you pass or not, you will feel a considerable change in your personality and knowledge. Although ,everyone posses their own opinion about it, one must try it once.

It is beyond doubt that CSS, chance and luck go side by side. It is also true that 2012 onwards, the testing standard has been raised. Only recently, I read that CSS is among the top ten most difficult examination around the world. If you are willing to work and consider no sacrifice too great for CSS it is definitely worth it. If one wishes to take CSS without hard-smart work, the effort will not reap much. It's not all about work and sacrifice, there is much more to it than meets the eye. It's about patience, nerves, pressure, battle, perseverance, determination motivation and so much more. There would be days when you would hate reading a book you shelved just two days ago, times when you would want to party and stop answering your relatives about what you are doing, times when you would enjoy every moment of it. Then again sometimes you would want to give up on your study in your youthful frenzy. You would be bored of the newspaper everyday unless you are blessed with an incredible amount of forbearance. Then one day while going through this bitter-sweet taste of agony we call CSS, you would see your name in the qualified candidates and wonder how fast life has travelled. Nothing would remain of the anguish you would have suffered all along. The nightmare would amusingly change all of a sudden into a pleasant dream. Just an advice/suggestion, as you sow-so shall you reap, don't forget. Best of luck =)

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True indeed. There is no doubt that the standard of CSS exam is really very high. The papers are brilliantly well prepared & the paper patterns are also remarkable. But, what then??? I have noticed that whatever people say about credibility of CE & FPSC but all those who qualify this exam are,no doubt, different from others, they are intelligent, they are creative & intellectual with exceptional communication & leadership skills as well as extra ordinarily strong nerves.... BUT... What next??? A career that would eventually & gradually slow poison the qualifiers & would make them shameless persons like SSP Dr. Rizwan, IG Sikandar Hayat or some characterless secretary... Or else one must be mentally prepared to waste his precious life serving an ingrate & ungrateful nation??? That's it??? Either one has to shut-up his conscience or has to die like the gems Sifwat Ghayyur & Malik Saad Shaheed. And above all; no one to thank or even recognise such sacrifices, rather many people doubtful that whether they were Shaheed or halaakshuda. Is this what CSS is all about??

Please don't tell me that things will change or you would have the power to change as you would be the future policy maker.... Life is not "a one man show" my dears & whether you call it pessimism or whatever you like, I don't care but I don't see things changing any soon. If we are unable to bring any meaningful change in 67yrs, rather the situation has worsened, despite having the so called prestigious civil services with finest minds, then anyone who expects or plans to do wonders is just a teenager, mentally.