War breaks civilisations in the English Precis and Composition past paper 2015. The precis passage endorses a historian’s verdict: war has caused the breakdown of every civilisation that has fallen. The comprehension passage weighs reasons for belief and warns that a strong feeling of certainty makes a poor ground for holding a belief. This paper closes an era. Its note question, worth 20 marks, is the last one FPSC set in this set; the topics include “Education should be for life, not for livelihood” and “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. Q.5 asks candidates to define word pairs such as plaintiff and plaintive, a rare twist. Narration returns in passage form at Q.6(b): candidates rewrite one whole passage and flip its direct and indirect speech.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs: 20 marks
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on war and the breakdown of civilisations, with a title (20 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on reasons for holding a belief (20 marks)
- Q.4 — Note of 250–300 words on one of the given topics (20 marks)
- Q.5 — (a) Use five idioms in sentences (5 marks); (b) explain the difference between five word pairs by defining each word (5 marks)
- Q.6 — (a) Correct five sentences (5 marks); (b) rewrite one passage, converting direct speech to indirect and indirect to direct (5 marks)
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