The English Precis and Composition paper tests control of written English, not knowledge of a subject. Seventeen papers, from 2009 to 2025, show one stable spine. A precis passage opens Part-II every year, and a comprehension passage follows it every year. Grammar correction items appear in all 17 papers. Beyond that spine, the paper changed shape twice. Papers from 2009 to 2011 gave Part-I 10 MCQ marks and Part-II 90 marks. From 2012 the split moved to 20 and 80, and it has held since. Early papers, 2009 to 2015, set a 250–300 word note on one of five topics for 20 marks. FPSC dropped that note after 2015. From 2016 an Urdu-to-English translation passage closed the paper every year as Q.7. From 2019 punctuation plus prepositions settled into Q.5 and stayed there. Vocabulary work runs through every paper: synonyms and antonyms fill Part-I, and idioms or pairs of words fill the later questions. Practise in full sittings. Take one paper, sit the full three hours, and mark your script against the question map on its year page. Rotate old and recent years so you feel both shapes of the paper. Keep a notebook beside each attempt and record every grammar slip, every weak precis line, and every unknown word the paper throws at you.
Papers by year
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