English Précis & Composition · CSS 2023
CSS 2023 English (Précis & Composition) Paper — solved
This is the complete CSS 2023 English (Précis & Composition) paper with model answers to every question. The MCQ key is given first, followed by the précis, the comprehension answers, and the composition section.
If you want the précis method taught in detail, the CSS Essay & Précis Masterclass covers it, and there are free walkthroughs on the CSSWithACSP YouTube channel.
- Q1
Q1: Synonyms and Antonyms (20 MCQs)
The 2023 vocabulary section mixes synonyms and antonyms in a single run rather than separating them into two blocks, so the first thing to read on each…
- Q2
Q2: Précis and title (freedom in education)
This passage is an argument with a clear position, which makes it easier to compress than a descriptive one, but it carries a trap.
- Q3
Q3: Comprehension (voluntary simplicity)
The passage draws a careful line between voluntary simplicity and poverty, and most of these questions are testing whether you noticed that line rather…
- Q4
Q4: Sentence correction
Two sentences in this set test the same rule, that a phrase sitting between subject and verb does not change the verb, and spotting the pattern makes both…
- Q5
Q5: Punctuation and prepositions
This punctuation passage contains direct speech, which raises the difficulty sharply, because quotation marks, the commas around them and the capital…
- Q6
Q6: Pairs of words in sentences
These pairs are near-identical in sound but unrelated in meaning, so each sentence has to carry enough context that the meaning would be obvious even to a…
- Q7
Q7: Urdu to English translation
This passage is a parable rather than an argument, and its meaning sits in its tone, so the translation has to preserve a storyteller's cadence as well as…
The question paper is reproduced from the Federal Public Service Commission's CSS 2023 English (Précis & Composition) paper for study purposes. Part I was attempted on a separate OMR sheet and does not appear in the FPSC question paper itself; the MCQs given here are compiled from candidate recollections of that section. The answers are our own and are offered as one good attempt, not as an official key.