COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS–17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2007
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ESSAY
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100 NOTE: Write a COMPREHENSIVE essay (4000 – 5000 words) on any ONE of the topics listed below. Make sure you use different forms of discourse; viz: exposition, argument, persuasion, description and narration.
Q.1. Q.2. Q.3. Q.4. Q.5. Q.6. Q.7.
'The more developed a country, the more lethally it is armed.' Higher education as an agent of change. The future of mankind in a 'Global Warming' perspective. The image of Islam in the western world and responsibilities of the Muslim Ummah. A country is backward because its people are backward. Globalization and electronic media. "The present system of education must assume some of the responsibilities of our failures." Discuss. "Politics is the art of possible." Discuss. Terrorism as a new threat to the contemporary world.
Q.8. Q.9.
Q.10. The state of Women Rights in Pakistan.
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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS–17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2007
Roll No.
ENGLISH (PRECIS & COMPOSITION)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
Q.1.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
Make a précis of the given passage and suggest a suitable heading. (20+5) The author of a work of imagination is trying to affect us wholly, as human beings, whether he knows it or not; and we are affected by it, as human beings, whether we intend to be or not. I suppose that everything we eat has some other effect upon us than merely the pleasure of taste and mastication; it affects us during the process of assimilation and digestion; and I believe that exactly the same is true of any thing we read. The fact that what we read does not concern merely something called our literary taste, but that it affects directly, though only amongst many other influences, the whole of what we are, is best