You can not pass this exam (CSS) without going to Lahore that is what most people advise you. Whenever you start thinking that you want to prepare the Civil Service Exam.
Let’s dispel this myth without quitting your job without attending any coaching class preparing from home.
But to begin with, let us look at the pattern of the examination. It is a three-stage process.
- Written exam
- Psychological test
- Interview
Become a CSS Officer without Coaching
Interview
First of all, I will briefly explain about interview or personality test. In a personality test, your knowledge will not be tested.
Because your knowledge has already been tested in the written exam. So what is tested? Your attitude your aptitude your presence of mind your suitability for a career in civil service.
This is something that cannot be taught in any coaching Institute. It comes with knowledge and this knowledge widens your thinking and ideas.
These things personality presence of mind no coaching institute can teach you. For CSS you are on your own.
Written exam
English Preparation for CSS
For English preparation there is Comprehension. How to prepare?
Reading comprehension, basically, a passage will be given at the end. This passage has some questions. Question-based on the knowledge that is provided in this passage.
But how to master the passages? How to master passages without joining a coaching Institute. You have to read newspapers on a daily basis. Its articles are very helpful for you.
You have to read the newspaper’s opinion base. But while reading an article try and understand between the lines.
Also reading an article tries to understand what is the objective of an article. What is the general idea that is conveyed by the Author?
Try to make your own opinion that the Author is most likely to agree or disagree with. How do you know whether the author agrees with the statement or disagrees with the statement?
It means you have to understand this passage. How can you understand the passage? The answer is practice, practice, and practice. But how can you practice it?
My opinion is to read newspapers regularly never miss it. Whatever is debated in print and television media. Whatever dominates in the headlines link it with your syllabus.
That means the current affair is the key to success. While reading an article try to understand what is the objective of an article.
What is the general idea conveyed by the author? When you are able to master this you will be able to solve all the questions in reading comprehension.
All these areas practice is the key. Solved past papers for many past years from 2010 to 2020.
General Study Preparation for CSS
Now let’s take the general studies. For example, What to read about history, particularly for modern history. I suggest you read the book recommended by FPSC.
These sets can be easily available in the market or online in soft copy. Read one book ten times rather than reading 10 books only once because the revision is the key to success.
How to Read General Knowledge
But the focus is on how to read. When you see how to read follow a pattern called five W’s and one H which means what has happened when it happened where it happened.
Why it happened, who were the people involved and how. When you apply this formula you can not miss any questions that will be asked in the examination.
Compulsory and Optional Subjects in CSS
Further, I will tell you more about the compulsory and optional subjects. In compulsory subject e.g. English that contains essays.
You have to write essays on two topics that are provided. It has a complete structure. There has to be a well-defined introduction, body, and conclusion.
In conclusion, you can put in your own words, your own ideology, your own convictions. But in the body, you will have to take newspaper articles.
An optional subject of how can choose an optional subject will have a separate discussion.
Confidence for CSS Jobs
In the preparation of CSS, you need confidence, struggle and determination. This confidence must be in you. Without joining a traditional coaching class you can clear this exam.
I am not negating the coaching classes. They have their own plus points. They minimize effort but that does not mean that coaching is a must.
You have to remember that this is a competition but your competition is with your own self. Only you have the power to defeat yourself no one else.
If this is your dream go for it. Civil service is the only career option where you can touch the lives of millions of people in one go.
Which others don’t have the power to touch the lives of billions of people in one go? Politics have but this is a very tough exam to crack than CSS.
Conclusion
We live in Pakistan and Pakistani glorifies successes but how can you define success. What is the idea of success in Pakistani sense? The idea is power, prestige. In CSS you get both.
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