@abdullahkhan your score in us history is very marvellous from which book you studied it i have two volumes of mujamder are they ok to get 80 marks

@ Abdullah

Outstanding scoring, even though dumped on by Political Science. Dude, I am curious to learn about your success story; or your 'kaarguzaari' as the Tableeghi hazraats call it = ) If you could please share it with us somewhere, sometime.

Congratulations and best wishes for a promising career that lies ahead. Regards = )

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Aaslamuliakum rora

Many many congratulation Abdullah khan rora on this out standing performance in this mega competition.In addition to this,rora i have gone through ur DMC and u scored well both in compulsory as well as in optionals.i astonish to see ur brilliant performance in optionals papers despite of the fact that u r having no background in social sciences subjects in ur acdemic life being a computer engineer,but even then u stood out of the crowd,due to ur exceptional performance indeed.

Futhermore, rora mine and all of ur optionals subjects are alike as per ur information my proposed optionals are:

1)Political sciences
2)constitutional law
3)US History
4)international relation
5)Pushto

Now i am earnestly requesting u rora that plz tell me:

1) what sort of sources(books,notes etc)have been used by u for above optional subjects.

2) plz tell me hw u prepared these optional subject in short span of time.

3) Do tell each each book u used for all these optional subjects.

4) Plus wid that how u score well in those subjects despite of no prior background.

PS i am waiting for ur prompt responce plz help me out inthis regard wid ur detail reply on my queries.

Allah Pah aman

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GK1,2,3 marks are unexpected as far as I think. I am not sure as to why you said that you were expecting 40 in EDS but you should have been aiming for 60 minimum at best. About the GK2,GK3, it is a shock ! I expected from you that you should have scored at least 50 plus in each paper.

About Accounting: You know better as I have no idea about this subject but it seems that it should be solid marks like that of mathematics.

About Journalism: It is shocking ! I did not prepare journalism at all and scored 38 and it was my first attempt. I wrote bla bla bla in the paper, just from my stomach and have scored better than yours. So it seems that something is wrong ! This time I have 19 correct msq's and I did not write bla bla bla but wrote concrete and solid material about journalism.

Considering, that it was your third attempt, and that you had a firm grip on your selected modules, you should go for recounting in GK2,GK3, account and journalism.

I had put you at the category of those who scored about 730 in the written part alone.

Please do tell me about your previous written scores as compared to this one.

Fi ammanuAllah

@MBA and Engineer

Dear it was my first attempt but it was not less than 3rd attempt.

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@ Irfi

We got a big pic of u outside Officers Academy sayin 1st Position in CSS 2009 and choota sa neeche * in Sindh :P

But gr8 bro really good show hope u get allocated where u want to be.

Waleed Ali Minhas
roll no:5712

essay :40
comp :49
p.a :40
c.a :42
scien :54
isl :61

brit history
paper 1:65
paper 2:51

geog
paper 1:53
paper 2:39

journalism:63

muslim law:55

total in written: 609
viva :192
total :801
merit :696

I have not given up..hopes are high..may Allah help me to acheive my aim :-)

Thx bro...

Officers' Academy Lahore?

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Roll No:4245
QUALIFICATION BACK GROUND: M PHIL CHEMISTRY, B.ED

COMPULSORY
Essay :40
Comp :45
EDS:67
PA :36
CA :42
ISL :65
OPTIONAL
FORESTRY: 71
JOURNALISM: 53
PSYCHOLOGY I-65
II-69 (134)
ZOOLOGY: I-61
II-64 (125)
TOTAL WRITTEN: 678
INTERVIEW: 193
GRAND TOTAL: 871

OVER ALL MERIT: 223
MERIT IN PUNJAB: 160
REMARKS:::::: ANXIOUSLY WAITING FOR ALLOCATION IN "DMG":

@Sheda

Sure we can connect on hotmail sometime. I sent you a request.

@Zubair Rana

Thanks and yes I prepared from those two Majumdar books you mentioned but I read some interesting facts/stories about the important topics to spice things up. So, I guess its possible to score that much by building your base by those books and doing some reading over the internet. Here is a good website http://www.ushistory.org/us/

@Muser

Thanks and yes I hate Pol.Science
Karguzaari is an interesting one and full of lessons for me as I believe I could have done things with much more ease and better but then again I was almost a lone soul in a small town.

I think this space is for sharing DMCs so will share it with you some other time.

Thanks for the best wishes and remember me in your khasusi duwayein.

Best of Luck for your attempt.


@Jadoon Khan

Dera manana!Thanks for your kind words. I know you didn't ask me this but since there is still plenty of time I think it'll be better if you can get rid of Pol.Sc. and Const.Law and go for something like Islamic/IndoPak History with Forestry, Journalism. The preparation I hear is not that much for the last two and the first two being history are Okay as well. I think that's what I would've done the next time considering a very low ceiling for average scores in these
subjects.


1. I didn't use any extraordinary sources, tried to keep my sources limited as well but if you can get hold of notes from any academy etc. better give them a reading.

-Pol.Science
Paper A - Sages of the Ages, Muslim Political Thought (MA Chaudhary), Mazharul Haq's book

-Const. Law and Pol.Science B
World Constitutions (S.L.Kaely), Constitutions book by MazharulHaq, Internet for Turkish, Iranian, Chinese constitutions

-Pushto
Pohana plus browsed through two books on Rahman Baba and Khushal Khattak available at Pushto Academy written by some MA Pushto

-US History
GOTO @Zubair Rana

-Int'l Relations
Sultan Khan book plus Amir Shehzad book on IR to some extent and extensive reading on the internet from different sites like wikipedia, CFR etc.


2-3. Tough question. I don't know if I can serve as an inspiration since I didn't lock myself up in a room and studied for half the length of the day. I used to study 7hrs at most plus read DAWN in detail and watched football every weekend. I studied what I felt like studying on a day rather than following a schedule. I had no notes so prepared them myself from different books which is possible in given time but you must leave the last month for revision. I mostly go for underlining stuff in books rather than writing them in a separate notebook as it saves time.

Except for Pol.Science, you can come up with important topics in subjects like Pushto, US History and cover IR topic wise. You can set a deadline for covering those while tackling the tough guy Pol.Sc. which I am sure you will have no problem with considering your background. I was okay with it but what frustrated me was Political thought portion as it required preparation equal to atleast a subject of 100marks but that won't be a problem with you I
guess.


4. I wasn't satisfied with my first attempt since I committed many mistakes which you might expect from a beginner with little practice. Like I attempted essay on 'Future of Democracy in Pak' and wrote 15 pages about history of democracy in pak and finishing off with about 2 pages on the real topic and look where it has landed me. But that is because it was the first time I was writing an essay and it was in exam so my bad. I did my high school education from US so I guess I spent very little time on English. I was fluent in writing decent english (anyone can after reading DAWN for months) but I would spend more time on background of issue etc.(basically forcing examiner to hear me out on stuff I spent so much time studying-not recommended) than answering the real question.

I spent a lot of time on Pol.Science and I guess didn't add quotations in any paper (so I hear you can score more with that). I didn't score well in Pol.Sc. so I guess you can seek advice on it from an expert in the subject. In order to make up for my rusty memorizing skills (coz of engineering background) I would make up for quotations by adding some interesting facts like by commenting on Depression era US, I would mention Hooverflags(empty pockets coz of unemployment). I hope you are getting my point.

My interview was an interesting one with Board member Asif Shah telling me how did I make it till there and if I could see him sitting infront of me. Then while leaving he said 'you still an unusal man' with a laugh. But Bhagwandas Sb said that it was a privilege to have cleared in the first attempt and appear for CSS at age 24.5(at the time of exam). So it has been a roller coaster ride and I enjoyed it Prayers are very very important!!!

I hope I answered what you were asking but my story is mostly of things not to do primarily because I mostly learnt from my own experience rather than interaction with seniors etc.

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