Css preparation

~ 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 🔥

کامیاب لوگوں کی صحبت ہی آپکو کامیاب بناتی ہے
Sit With the winners, the conversation is different.

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Oh boy! What an awesome movie. Brilliant work by all. Truly an inspiration for everyone by all means.In life, you might find Aarti or Shraddha. It's not in your hand. What's in your hand is your hardwork, your ambitions and your dreams. Family & responsibility always comes first. Always focus on that. Never sacrifice your career for love, it's not worth it.

Between all the “Ye time he zaya kar rahi hai apna” and “Mujhe pata tha tum ne kar lena hai!” CSS happened!

My journey on this road to finally reaching the destination, is conventional yet astounding. It was the end of my last summer at NUST, and I was about to graduate in a month or two. Not knowing what to do next, I was looking up to the new horizons that might be looking up to me the same way! That was when the thought of attempting for CSS struck me, and struck me real hard. I had always been a well achieved student, even received President’s Gold Medal for best GPA in Bachelors, but that was in “Biological Sciences”. Yes! You heard it right. I was a true scientist. Skimming through the extensive and elaborate subject list of CSS exam, I was dejected to see that “Applied Biology” legit had no place in any of the groups. Soon after I had consulted a few well informed individuals, my high spirited soul was demotivated. Days were passing as I perplexingly watched my friends applying for MS programs and deciding career prospects for themselves. I was already running late and still I couldn’t stick to one decision.
One ordinary day, I looked up to my parents, but this time it wasn’t an ordinary gaze like always. I realized that they weren’t the same as ever before. Meek and old, with the hearts of gold, and their faces depicting the stories untold! That is when I stiffened up my upper lip, held my chin high and stepped into the game. For them or for myself? Who even knows that now?

I joined an academy in July 2017, and the time span was quite less for a person like me who was almost a CSS-illiterate. Each passing day brought a new kind of challenge and a lesson that came within. There were times when things fell apart, there were times when I endured the pain of sleepless nights and there too were times when I would cry myself to sleep. People would mock or ridicule at times, of how silly it is for a person to overestimate herself like that, but this my folks, is how CSS works!

Push yourself through the edge, challenge your aura. Be over ambitious and see yourself soaring up above the skies. It’s not always rainbows and butterflies, but it isn’t hell and beyond, either. Consistency and Perseverance are the decisive factors, even when the days are harsh and the nights; bitter, keep going!

To the aspirants for the CSS 2024-2025; your only competition is YOU! There’s always time to turn the tables over. All you have to do is believe in your abilities. You can start from the scratch and still be on the top. Time is everything, so not tomorrow, not the day after. Start gathering your pieces of life NOW! As Harvey Specter would say “A day has enough hours, you just have too many excuses”, so it’s never too late. So the next time someone tells you that you’ll never be able to do it, tell them to “Never say, Never”.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot

-- Mehreen Tahir (IRS, 66th Position Holder in CSS 2018).

20 Books That Will Help You in CSS and PMS Exams?

1. "Pakistan: A Hard Country" by Anatol Lieven
2. "Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan" by Hamid Khan
3. "Pakistan Affairs" by Ikram Rabbani
4. "World Affairs" by Shamshad Ahmed
5. "Islamic Studies" by Hafiz Karim Dad Chughtai
6. "Current Affairs" (various newspapers and magazines)
7. "Geography of Pakistan" by Nazir Ahmad Kahut
8. "General Science and Ability" by Muhammad Sohail Bhatti
9. "International Relations" by Prakash Chander
10. "Pakistan's Foreign Policy: A Concise History" by Abdul Sattar
11. "Everyday Science" by Akram Kashmiri
12. "Essentials of Home Economics" by Anjum Zahoor
13. "Jahangir's World Times CSS PMS Guide"
14. "Advanced Publisher CSS Compulsory Subjects Guide"
15. "Pakistan's Foreign Policy 1947-2019: A Concise History" by Shahid Amin
16. "Pakistan Studies" by Rizwan Ahmed Shaikh
17. "CSS/PMS Guide by Dogar Publishers"
18. "Encyclopedia of General Knowledge & General Science" by M. Naveed Aslam
19. "CSS General Science and Ability" by Adeel Niaz
20. "Public Administration" by Sajjad Haider

SUCCESS usually comes those
who are willing to achieve it🥰

AC M. Usman PAS along with his batchmate❤️

سی ایس ایس کی تیاری میں ریسرچ پیپرز پڑھنے بے حد ضروری ہوتے ہیں اس لیے کہ کتابیں تو بازار سے ہر کوئی خرید کر پڑھتا ہے۔ یہ ایک مقابلے کا امتحان ہے اور آپ اس کو پاس تب ہی کر سکتے ہیں جب آپ نے اچھی ریکمنڈڈ بکس کی ریڈنگ کی ہو گی اور مختلف آرٹیکلز اور ریسرچ پیپرز سے اپنی تیاری کو دوسروں سے منفرد بنایا ہوگا۔ یہی کوالٹی انفرادیت آپ کو ٹاپ لسٹ میں کھڑا کرے گی۔ ریسرچ پیپرز اور کوالٹی ریڈنگ میٹیریل آپ کو کمینٹ سیکشن میں لنکس دی گئی ہیں وہ وزٹ کریں آپ کو ریسرچ پیپرز اور کوالٹی ریڈنگ میٹیریل مل جائے گا.

اِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا

بے شک ہر مشکل کے ساتھ آسانی ہے ❤️✨

اک مدت سے تجھے آنا گوارا نہ ہوا
پھر نہ کہنا کہ یہاں لوگ بدل جاتے ہیں

Books you may consult for subjects concerning your css examination.

Essay/to improve Ur write-up & knowledge:

-Youtube for understanding structures
-Newspaper editorials & Opinion Pieces
-National Journals : IPRI & PIDE
-Int Magazines : The Economist
*PRECIS & COMPOSITION*
- Wren n Martin.

*PAKISTAN AFFAIRS*
Best one: IKRAM RABBANI
Pre-Partition:
1- Trek to Pakistan
2- Making sense of Pakistan
3- The Great Mughals & their India
Post-Partition:
1- Paksitan a hard country
2- The Pakistan Paradox
3- Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan by Hamid Khan

*ISLAMIAT*
1- Intro to Islam by Muhammad Hamidullah
2- Islami Nazriya e Hayat by Khursheed Ahmad
3- The reconstruction of religious thought in Islam : Allama Iqbal
4- For Islamic History ,I read After the Prophet by Lesley Hazleton
-Crammed quite a lot of Verses and Ahadith too.

*GENERAL SCIENCE AND ABILITY*
1-Mian Shafiq's book
2- For Maths & Logical Reasoning part, I downloaded and solved Miscellaneous worksheets from following websites :
homeschoolmath.net
corbettmaths.com
3- For everyday science, you can consider grade 7,8 science book.

*CURRENT AFFAIRS*
1. Newspapers :
-Started with tribune
-Dawn
-Nyt
2. Magazines :
-The Economist
-Foreign Affairs Magazine
-Time
(thecsspoint.com)
3. Articles & Research Papers:
-PIDE
-IPRI
4. YouTube :
- Vox
- Al Jazeera Start here

ہم نے مانا کہ تغافل نہ کرو گے لیکن
خاک ہو جائیں گے ہم تم کو خبر ہونے تک 😔