I am sorry to interrupt the ongoing discussion..............
but i want to ask members of css forum who have cleared or not cleared eng comp paper to elicit problematic areas in eng comp paper which need to be handled well.....................

Is it precise, comprehension and expansion or grammer portion
regards

In my view, precis, comprehension and expansion of ideas are considered important for the success of a candidate. The precis has an important place in the paper as it gives an idea abt a candidate's level of writing skills in English.

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Here goes my marks sheet

Essay 55
English 40
General Knowledge 141
GK1 (Everyday Science) 65
GK2 (Current Affairs) 40
GK3 (Pakistan Affairs) 36
Islamiat 52

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS

Business Administration 55
Sociology 45
History of Pak and India 104
Paper A 55
Paper B 49
Musilm LAW and Juris 49
International Relations 42
Total Marks

FAILED IN AGGREGATE 583

dats pretty cool isn't it ...
u don't think so?? well let me clarify ..
i mean when i saw my result...i laughed like anything...i mean u people might think i m crazy or something..but no i m not..u wont believe da time i spent on preparing for da exam...brace urself....:P

it was 4 days...dat is 96 hrs...5760 minutes...345600 seconds...
i didn't even have a single book before dat...people think its unbelievable or i might b lying abt my prep time..but nope i ain't a liar...i dont know how i did it but i did...i didnt even chose my optionals myself n i had no intention of taking da exam but i took it just to c wat all da hoohaa was abt...plus...i had recently quit my job n had nothing better to do...so i know i didn't clear da exam..rite..but i didn't flunk in anything either...n its no mean feat i think ...
so all those who think CSS needs months of prep...well i dont really understand da logic behind it...anyways da papers weren't gravy i have to admit...n maybe i did well in 'em coz of my habit of reading newspapers n political journal quite regularly plus gr8 schooling throughout my life n regular discussions over hot issues with my father...i dont know really...but something did work for me...but not quite enuf apparently ...so all u guys..if i can (almost) do it without decent prep...all u guys with months of prep surely can...
give FPSC hell in 2008

hi.dr.m.saad here.my marks sheet reveels, assay 55,COMPOSITION 34,EDS 79,PAK AFFAIRS 46,CURRENT AFFAIRS 50,ISLAMIAT 79,ZOOLOGY 123,SOCIOLOGY 76,AMERICAN HISTORY 72,I.R.56,CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 56,TOTAL 726 INCLUDING failed subject.

hi.dr,m.saad here.my roll no.is 3101 as inquired by a coronor

is anybody going for litigation against marking of composition paper?it seems preposterous to have secured 726 marks,yet failing in one subject.such a stolidity on the part of FPSC is repremendable.

hey


hum sa ho tu samnay ayee


i had prepared myself 4 css exam in just 2 months even less than this time n alas i really think it wa sthe most easiest exam in the history of css( according to past papers)


my DMS is as

eng 40
preci 30
g.k 107
isl 49


economics 112
history 89
IR 46
sociology 44



wowwwwwwwwwwww...............wat a result

mein sadqe jaoon

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Dear Friends, can anybody tell me why me and others (who have qualified) were passed by the Examiner? Because as far as I know, I dont have any uncle or aunty in the FPSC. As I said in one of my earlier posts, why would one think that one can not be failed in English paper if one has scored good marks in all other subjects? Is it not possible that one's performance in that particular paper was not up to the mark? Is it really that improbable? .. Then somebody who has passed the English paper but has failed in some other paper(s) should also have the right to go against FPSC in the courts!! .. My sincere request to all those who have failed in English paper and have scored well other wise is, that they should only focus on their next attempt.. FPSC is not a coorupt institution.. and last but not the least, please dont hurt the integrity of those who have passed the exam.

@Bhaloo280

You and rest of the aspirants who have cleared the written portion deserved it that is why you people have got it made. And i have seen most of the aspirants who were deep down damn good in each and every aspect but didn't blame Fpsc . Except some of them , may be dil ko khush rakhne ke liye ye khayal acha hai .

Members are requested to discuss the DMCs only rather discouraging others and making FPSC to be held responsible for this year's failure ratio.

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perhaps if you work on your spellings you might be able to pass the composition paper next year.

that is nothing new. one of my friends who failed in the 2006 attempt had 711 marks. he had failed english by only four marks.
I had 672 last year. but i had failed english essay by a wider margin. i was not as sad about my result as i was for his. I thought he really did deserve to be in the service. he could not take the exam again because he got over age.


I will try to come up with an answer to this one.
you say that you had a concocted and fabricated precis. It seems to me that either you do not know what precis is all about or you do not know what those two words "fabricate" and "concoct" mean.
you can not fabricate or concot a precis. that would mean you might add something that the original passage did not contain. remember it is about condensing the given passage. its not about explaining it. so you can not put something in it that is not there. you only have to summarise in a way that it will take less space in terms of words but will still convey to the reader what the original passage told.
you said comprehension was you topic. what is that supposed to mean?
I dont know what Bacon said about honesty. i tried reading him and his archaic english made me put the book back in the shelf. and I'd advise you to do the same. try to use your own examples rather than those of Bacon's. and develop your own simple style rather than trying to adopt that of Bacon's.
I do not have your paper in front of me so i can not comment much. but it seems to me that you, sort of, overacted, if you understand what i am trying to convey here. i once tried that and failed miserably. please use simple english. use short sentences and try to make the reader understand instead of confusing him. dont use a word if you are not really aware of the meaning of it; use a simpler alternative instead.
i hope this advice helps.

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