Report reveals why 98 percent students failed in CSS exams

Dunya News

A candidate wrote the question again and again to fill pages in Agriculture & Forestry paper

ISLAMABAD (Daily Dunya) – Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) has issued Examiners  Report for the disappointing results in Central Superior Services (CSS) exams in 2016.

According to the report, a candidate had written the question again and again to fill space, pages in Agriculture & Forestry, while around 55 candidates out of 105 got zero in Applied Mathematics subject.


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Only a few managed to perform well in Botany whereas some students had answered the questions in Urdu while attempting the paper of Persian language.

A lot of the CSS exam takers filled the papers of Chemistry and Physics with unnecessary essays which generally require to the point answers.

The report by FPSC suggests that most of the candidates had grammatical and structural errors in their English papers. Around 5 percent of the people who attempted the Islamic Studies exam failed to clear it while a candidate interestingly filled the exam in Sindhi language.

80 percent people in Agriculture & Forestry and 55 percent in Applied Mathematics failed in their respective exams. Not even half the number of candidates got fifty percent marks in these exams.

Examiners  Report recommends a  qualification round  for CSS aspirants according to which only those candidates will be allowed to sit in the exams who qualify the initial test.

It must be noted here that most of the students who failed their exams were graduates belonging from Punjab University, Peshawar University and Karachi University.


The story initially appeared in Daily Dunya