Yes, The objections you have raised now are all relevant, but unfortunately that is the way to go about it. The majority of our people have been deprived the good fortune of attending privileged schools, unlike a few....which is why they have to be compensated for in the way I highlighed earlier. It is this factor that has inter alia, lead to the process being sub-standard. The purpose of my response was only to indicate the way to go about answering the papers and approaching questions, but from what you have said has most certainly surprised me...

And what exactly would you, sir, suggest prospective public servants keep in mind to do well to achieve a place on the merit? I am sure your prescription wouldn't only suggest filling your scripts with nonsense ?

there are few other things I have had ppl tell me, such as fold edges of the paper, use a highlighter, make the answer colorful ...

Hahah Hilarious!! I've heard that, surprisingly does the trick!

Here you go

The very reasons you put forth for doing well and not doing well in total contradiction with FPSC annual report 2012 (Latest)

Page 41 of the report on Economics

http://www.fpsc.gov.pk/icms/admin/do...20complete.pdf

I believe your views about the intellectual element of the papers should now reconcile, since the very ''straight forward questions'' demand CRITICAL Evaluation/Analysis. Go through this.

we have effectively made this thread's discussion off the topic ..heh.. let our nonsense prevail

"...which is why they have to be compensated for in the way I highlighted earlier.."

please clarify

"And what exactly would you, sir, suggest prospective public servants keep in mind to do well to achieve a place on the merit? I am sure your prescription wouldn't only suggest filling your scripts with nonsense ?"

to be honest I have not been involved too much with the CSS prep...so I can't say what they should do exactly without having myself read the examiner reports for each paper...and the Pakistani texts are so poor in quality and so outdated that I would rather not comment on them to keep the discussion civil and I would prefer not to have anything to do with teaching such stuff it would be too demotivating for myself... whatever I said in earlier posts about answering was obviously based on hearsay .. plus I hate teaching.. a LOT.. general advice is all I have patience for ...so I am not the best person for exact exam advice at the pathetic standard it is being tested at .. however, that being said students really need to do self-study at all levels and forget spoon feeding.. school culture: the matriculate system as well as the O-levels and A-levels are churning out spoon fed and immature students... even BBA students want teachers to hold their hands.. grow up people!

and as for the report.. there is not enough relevant detail ... do you see what i mean by nonsense?...where is the Question by Question analysis or Examiner's remarks for each Question?... do they give students any detailed remarks for each question and the same goes for MCQs? I hope they do, if not then it should have been in the report?... btw examiner's detailed comments are not act of spoon feeding but making students realize 'this is what you are doing wrong.. now fix it'

It is because of the reports like the one you showed, that I have long forsaken any sense of belief in govt reports for it is these same govt officers who burn down the record rooms in the Sindh Secretariat to prevent their frauds from being caught

as for the answering papers in economics... in Paper 1 you cannot write nonsense since it is theory (which is sadly tested at the most rudimentary level) but the Paper 2 is just info, info and more info something like current affairs... plus writing non-sense carefully and writing nonsense that is just off the topic are 2 different things... writing non-sense carefully involves making sure you write a good story .. for eco since the CSS exam is post BBA.. the Eco texts should include Pyndick or Hal Varian for Micro and for Macro either Mankiw or Blanchard

I don't know whom i should ask as i find no any useful info from anywhere on the internet.. If someone can guide me if i would like to go for Private M.A Economics.. Which books should i buy and is it possible to do it without any tuition or academy or not?

you can go for private M.A economics. As far as your query about tuition or academy is concern, u can manage it without any tuition or academy. However, some subjects which are compulsory for M.A economics are very technical such as mathematical economics, econometrics and statistics for which you would need an obvious assistance of any professional.
Wish you all the best.

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Assalamoalaikum,

I have a question. I have been studying for microeconomics from Mankiw and A. Koutsoyannis, and i have been looking at the pastpaper questions too.

Now A. Koutsoyannis has a lot of detail about the topics.
about the theory of demand and theory of production--can someone please guide me as to what 'sub-topics' (specifically) should i cover from the book. i would be very very grateful. the more i look at the book, the more confused i get.

regards

slam samia fakhar i hope u will be safe . u have a master degree in economics actually i want to ask u that why did you not opted economics ??

I my opinion you should replace economics with any other scoring subject because it is a wide subject and economics of the world is changing day by day and you may be asked about current economic situation of developed or under development countries. as i am junior but i hve read this subject in inter and graduation as well and i was going to opt this subject but i didn't because one of the senior member of this forum who had done phd in economics advised me not to choose this subject as it is very risky.

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people do say that it is risky but it is interesting and circular... once you have understood it then you cannot forget it... it does not need cramming, you just need to highlight the effects it has in congruence with social, political, psychological phenomenon as is the case with the other social sciences... an advantage over other social sciences is that there is a scope for graphs and formulas... but then again every one has their own preferences... i am going with it in 2014... let's see what happens...

economics is a very good subject
if one has read it in b.a or b.sc
I opted it twice
2010 and 2012
it gave me 124 and 151 respectively
depends how you attempt the paper

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brightstar thank you so much that you give me hope because almost all said dont opt economy but i want to opt it