Federal Public Service Commission

CSS English Essay Past Paper 2017

Compulsory · 100 marks · three hours

Original FPSC paper

Q. 1
Is colonial mentality impeding Pakistan’s progress?
Q. 2
Brexit means globalization is the rhetoric of the privileged, and capitalism will return ferociously as ever.
Q. 3
More and more International military engagements by the United Nations; is the world moving towards peace?
Q. 4
Modernity is an unending project.
Q. 5
Feminism is not really a Third World issue.
Q. 6
Literature is a lonely planet of idealists.
Q. 7
Being a minority is a fate no one wants. Can nationalism be really inclusive?
Q. 8
Ideologies thrive on notions of resistance, yet change is a simulation.
Q. 9
Are modern wars not holy wars?
Q. 10
Life without controversy is no life. But why one should not choose the safe haven of conformism?

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