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[Sikander]

Dear qualifiers, I hope you are fine.

                                                I have a question to raise here. I would like to know that after a subject is studied completely, should one attempt all questions of a given past paper or follow the instruction to attempt only 5 question as directed?

I have thoroughly studied Journalism, and I have focused to understand its syllabus. However, when I review its past papers, there are a few topics which appeared in papers despite they are not the part of syllabus. My question is should I also attempt those topics? My general perception rather belief is that I am able to attempt all 5 questions from any past papers, but I am worrying whether it is sufficient.

I hope to hear from all of you. Thanking in advance.

[Dr. Farrukh Malik]

Dear Sikandar Sahab,

I hope you are doing fine.

I have a question to raise here. I would like to know that after a subject is studied completely, should one attempt all questions of a given past paper or follow the instruction to attempt only 5 question as directed?

In my point of view the past papers are a great source of practice before the actual examination and one should practice as many question as he can and for past five year, one must practice all of them.

I have thoroughly studied Journalism, and I have focused to understand its syllabus. However, when I review its past papers, there are a few topics which appeared in papers despite they are not the part of syllabus. My question is should I also attempt those topics? My general perception rather belief is that I am able to attempt all 5 questions from any past papers, but I am worrying whether it is sufficient.

Once again, I would say that the question not from the so called syllabus are a catch and one must attempt them in order to judge his/her writing skills. Please do solve them and it will benefit you.

The bottom line is that, the past paper are a good source of practice and that too in the right direction. Therefore, One must attempt all the questions of at least last five years papers provided, he/she has enough time

[Arif Rao]

In addition to what has been mentioned above, I would like to add that solving the past papers is also advantageous to you in the sense that it gives you an idea of "how a topic, idea or theory, that seems quite simple while read from the book, can be asked in different ways and in unique contexts" and it also helps you assess your ability to handle it differently in varying circumstances.

To quote an example, one of my friends told me that this year's Islamiat paper had two or three very general sort of questions and while he was attempting those questions one after another, he began to feel that he was going monotonous and repeating the same stuff again and again. This gave him an uncomfortable feeling but he couldn't help it as those were the only possible questions he could take up to complete the required count. Now if you practise such a paper at home, you would also get an idea of what it takes to attempt quite general questions and still being unique and delivering quality stuff in each of the answers.
I hope you got my point... So, try to attempt the past papers. It will help you a lot.

[Sikander]

Respected and dear Farrukh, and equally respected & dear Arif, I am very much thankful to both of you for advising me.

Have a very nice day.

[star1]

Thanks..both of the CSS qualifiers.