The English Precis and Composition past paper 2025 splits its 100 marks into 20 MCQs and 80 written marks. The precis passage takes up nationalism and humanism. It quotes Homi Bhabha on nations as narratives and brings in Al-Ghazali and Iqbal on identity and democracy. The comprehension passage turns to wandering. It traces the phrase “rolling stone” from a Roman proverb to the rock band and asks five questions at four marks each. Correction sentences lean abstract, with subjects like structural violence and cybertechnology. Q.5 pairs a punctuation passage on Heer Ranjha and Punjabi love legends with preposition blanks. Q.6 sets rare word pairs such as Blurt and Blert. The translation passage presents Al-Ghazali’s picture of the Qur’an as an ocean of meanings.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs: synonyms for ten words, antonyms for ten words (20 marks)
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on nationalism and humanism, with a title (20 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on wandering and the “rolling stone”, five questions (20 marks)
- Q.4 — Correct five of eight sentences (10 marks)
- Q.5 — (a) Punctuate a text on Heer Ranjha and Punjabi folk love tales (5 marks); (b) fill blanks with prepositions, five of eight (5 marks)
- Q.6 — Use five pairs of words in sentences (10 marks)
- Q.7 — Translate an Urdu passage on Al-Ghazali’s thought into English (10 marks)
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