Essay Papers (1971 - 1999)

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1971
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 100

Note: Write an essay in ENGLISH on ONE of the following:

1. Man as part of a design infinitely vaster than himself.
2. Knowledge demands love as its complement.
3. The amusement mania.
4. The art of feature films made in Pakistan.
5. Art and Religion.
6. Education of freedom.
7. Brain-washing.
8. The lessons of the past.
9. Requisites for social progress in Pakistan.
10. How words change our lives?
11. Man is condemned to be free.
12. Leaders and followers.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1972
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 100

Write an essay in English on One of the following:

1. Relevance of Islam to Science.
2. The sanctity of law.
3. Competitive results of planned economy?
4. The sick soul.
5. The strategy of political warfare.
6. “If’ in History.
7. Psychology and its social meaning.
8. Reverence for life.
9. International morality.
10. The divided self and the process of its unification.
11. Statesmen and Diplomatists.
12. The foundations of the feature.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1973
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 100

1. (a) Make an outline for writing an Essay in English on One of the following subjects:

(b) Write the Essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the Outline
you have drawn. Develop your ideas logically, at the same time marshalling your facts and
data in such a manner is the writing you produce is not only convincing but also comprehensive.

1. The Problems of Social. Economic and Political Development in the Third World.
2. Sino-Soviet Differences.
3. The Process of Modernization in Pakistan.
4. Pakistan’s New Constitution.
5. Pakistan Cultural Situation.
6. Iqbal's Reinterpretation of Islam.
7. Solar Energy.
8. Interplanetary Travel.
9. Existentialism.
10. Archetypes.
11. Experiment in Literature.
20. Man’s Physiological and Psychological Relationship with Animals.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1974
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 50

1. (a) Make an Outline for writing an essay on one of the following subjects:

(b) Write the Essay on the subject you have selected more or lesson the basis of the Outline
you have drawn. Develop your ideas logically, at the same time marshaling your facts and
data in such a manner as the writing you produce is not only convincing but also comprehensive.

1. Sino-American Relations.
2. The Arabs versus Israel.
3. The Role of the Third World in the United Nations.
4. The Ideology of Pakistan.
5. The Process of Urbanization in Pakistan.
6. Pakistan’s efforts at attaining self-sufficiency in Food.
7.The influence of Western Literature.
8. Aesthetic Values.
9. The peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy.
10. Wealth in the Sea.
11. The Measurement of Personality.
12. Education and Internationalism.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1975
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50

(a) Make an Outline for writing an essay on one of the following subjects:

(b) Write the Essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the Outline
you have drawn. Develop your ideas logically, at the same time marshaling your facts and
data in manner as the writing you produce is not only convincing but also comprehensive.

1. A new Economic Order for the World.
2. Oil Politics.
3. Soviet-American Détentes.
4. Pakistan’s Efforts at Industrialization.
5. The Role of Banking in the Development of Pakistan.
6. Agro-Technical Education in Pakistan.
7. Urdu Literature since 1935.
8. The Symbolist Movement in Literature and the Arts.
9. The Uses of Computers.
10. An Evaluation of Various Theories of Psychotherapy.
11. Pragmatism.
12. The International Women’s Year.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1977
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50


Note: Write an Essay on any one of the following subjects:

Write the essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the outline you have drawn. Develop your ideas logically, at the same time marshalling your facts and data in such a manner that the writing your produce is not only convincing but also comprehensive.

1. Apartheid.
2. The Writer’s Role in an Ideological State.
3. Some Fashionable Follies of the Modern World.
4. Urdu Poetry Today.
5. Democracy in Pakistan.
6. Profile of the Pakistani Voter.
7. The Knowledge Explosion in the Modern Times.
8. Our Movies and our National Character.
9. Inflation - Its Causes and Cures.
10. Conscience versus Command.
11. Psychoanalysis.
12. Education for Varied Talents.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1978
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50


Note: Write an Essay on any one of the following subjects:

Write the essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the outline you have drawn. Develop your ideas logically, at the same time marshalling your facts and data in such a manner that the writing your produce is not only convincing but also comprehensive.

1. The Nuclear Power Programme in Pakistan.
2. The Social Role of a writer
3. Religion and Science.
4. “Our Sweetest Songs are those that tell Of Saddest thoughts”.
5. The Administrative Corruption and Inefficiency — Its causes and cures.
6. Suggestions for the Improvement of Educational Standard in Pakistan.
7. The Use and Abuse of Leisure.
8. Psychotherapy.
9. Mass Media and Opinion formation.
10. The Impact of Socio-Cultural factors on Personality Development

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1979
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50

a) Make an Outline for writing an essay on one of the following topics:
(b) Write the Essay, based on your outline.



1) Separate Universities for Women.
2) Spare the Rod and spoil the Child.
3) “My friend it is the poet’s work
Dreams to interpret and to mark
Believe me that man’s true conceit
In a dream becomes complete!
All poetry we ever read
Is but true dreams interpreted”
(Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger)
Comment on the Significance of Dreams

4) The Role of Democracy in a Developing Country.
5) ‘Nationalism’ and 'Super nationalism' in Our Times.
6) Existentialism-"the alienation of contemporary man from himself and others” has become one of the themes of modern literature. Say what you know about Existentialist Literature.
7) Economic Aid and International Development.
8) “If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing mankind”. (J.S.) Mill) Discuss.
9) One today is Worth Two Tomorrows.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1980
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50


Note: Write an Essay on any one of the following subjects:

Write the essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the outline you have drawn.

1. Our Cultural Heritage.
2. My proposals for a Peaceful World in the 1980s.
3. Pakistan’s Response to the Changing Regional Situation.
4. Socio-Economic Status of Women in Pakistan.
5. Islam and Democracy.
6. Impact of Science on Society.
7. Theatre of the Absurd.

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1981
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50


Note: Write an Essay on any one of the following subjects:

Write the essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the outline you have drawn.

1. The influence of Religion on Civilization.
2. The dignity of Labour.
3. Man is the Slave of Habit.
4. Remedies for the Reconstruction of our Educational system.
5. Contemporary Pakistani Literature.
6. Is knowledge - like virtue - its own reward.
7. The Evils of Prosperity.
8. Nuclear Technology and the Third World.
9. Civilization is moulded by Books.
10. The Value of Architecture and its influence on life.