English Précis & Composition · CSS 2025
CSS 2025 English (Précis & Composition) Paper — solved
This is the complete CSS 2025 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)
Part I carries twenty marks and is answered on a separate OMR sheet in the first thirty minutes, with no negative marking, so every question should be…
- Q2
Q2: Précis and title (nationalism and humanism)
The passage argues that nations are constructed rather than natural, and a précis of it must carry that argument while dropping every name, quotation and…
- Q3
Q3: Comprehension (the passage on wandering)
Each answer below is three or four sentences, because a four-mark comprehension question rewards precision rather than length and copying the passage's…
- Q4
Q4: Sentence correction
The paper asks for five of the eight, so choose the five whose errors you can actually name rather than the five that look shortest.
- Q5
Q5: Punctuation and prepositions
Punctuation questions test sentence boundaries above everything else, so find where one complete thought ends and the next begins before worrying about…
- Q6
Q6: Pairs of words in sentences
The instruction is to use five pairs in sentences that clearly illustrate their meanings, and "clearly" is the word that carries the marks, because a…
- Q7
Q7: Urdu to English translation
The examiner is testing whether you can carry an image across a language rather than substitute words one at a time, and this passage runs a single…
The question paper is reproduced from the Federal Public Service Commission's CSS 2025 English (Précis & Composition) paper for study purposes. Spellings printed by FPSC are kept as they appear, with corrections noted where a word was misprinted. The answers are our own and are offered as one good attempt, not as an official key.