General Science and Ability · CSS 2024
CSS 2024 General Science and Ability - solved subjective questions
This set carries the seven subjective questions of the CSS 2024 General Science and Ability paper, Q2 through Q8, each solved and written from scratch for this platform. Q2 to Q5 are the Section A science questions, 16 parts in all; Q6 to Q8 are the Section B ability questions, 12 parts in all. The objective part of the paper is not covered here.
The science answers are kept to the length a five-mark part earns, and each one leads with the definition or mechanism an examiner is looking for rather than with background. The ability answers show the method without a calculator: what is given, the formula or reasoning used, the substitution, the working line by line, the units, and the final answer, with a check where one is available.
Three parts of this paper are ambiguous as printed. Each is solved on a stated reading rather than silently, so you can see the assumption and disagree with it if your examiner reads it differently.
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- Q2
Tuberculosis and hepatitis, the mechanism and construction of fibre optic cable, middle latitude cyclones and tornadoes, and ionic and covalent bonding
This question tests four distinct scientific skills.
- Q3
Plastics and elastics, the role of remote sensing and GIS in environmental science, Kepler laws of planetary motion, and preservatives and antioxidants
This question moves from material science to environmental technology, astronomy and food science.
- Q4
The role of carbohydrates and vitamins, the functioning of liver and pancreas, drinking water standards and heavy metals, and radioactivity and its laws
This question covers nutrition, human physiology, water safety and nuclear science.
- Q5
Plant nutrition elements, the difference between software and hardware with five examples of each, the types of earthquake waves, and longitudinal, electromagnetic and gamma radiations
This question tests classification and function across plant biology, computing and wave science.
- Q6
Four numbers whose sum is 105, five jumbled spellings, five number series, and a three digit number from its digit sums
This question examines algebraic translation, vocabulary, pattern recognition and place value.
- Q7
A journey around a right angle triangle, pocket money shared among five classmates, the surface area and volume of a sphere, and distributing Rs. 4,320 in parts
This question combines geometry, ratios and mensuration.
- Q8
The original price of a car and the profit on it, twelve men and a job after four quit, a tree shadow thrown on a building, and distances between three moving cars
This question tests percentages, work rates, similar triangles and relative positions.
Q1 of this paper is objective and is deliberately not part of this set. What is solved here is the subjective half, Q2 through Q8.
In the examination hall you do not attempt all seven. The paper's own instruction for Part-II is to attempt only four questions, two from each section, and all questions carry equal marks. Each of the seven is solved here anyway, because this is a study resource and you cannot know in advance which four you will want.
The questions are reproduced from the Federal Public Service Commission's CSS 2024 General Knowledge-I (General Science & Ability) paper for study purposes. Every answer was written from scratch for this platform and is offered as one good attempt, not as an official key. Verify any figure against a primary source before reproducing it in an examination.