English Précis & Composition · CSS 2024
CSS 2024 English (Précis & Composition) Paper — solved
This is the complete CSS 2024 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 2024 vocabulary set is noticeably kinder than 2025's, built from words that appear in ordinary academic reading rather than from dictionary…
- Q2
Q2: Précis and title (urban green spaces)
This passage is descriptive rather than argumentative, which makes it harder to compress than it looks, because there is no chain of reasoning to hold on…
- Q3
Q3: Comprehension (technology and education)
The 2024 comprehension questions are long and each contains two parts, so the main risk is answering only the half you noticed and leaving four marks on…
- Q4
Q4: Sentence correction
Four of the eight sentences in this set are testing the same family of error, the modifier attached to the wrong noun, which makes them the easiest five…
- Q5
Q5: Punctuation and prepositions
The instruction here is stricter than it looks.
- Q6
Q6: Pairs of words in sentences
Every pair in this set is a homophone pair, words that sound alike and mean something entirely different, so the sentence must make the meaning visible…
- Q7
Q7: Urdu to English translation
This passage is written in the high formal register of Urdu newspaper editorial prose, and the translation must find an English register that matches it…
The question paper is reproduced from the Federal Public Service Commission's CSS 2024 English (Précis & Composition) paper for study purposes. The answers are our own and are offered as one good attempt, not as an official key.