Essay with Muhammad Ikram Sarfraz

تُو جو بولے تو ہر اک حرف کے سو معنی ہیں
تُو نہ بولے تو ہر اک لفظ ہی بے معنی ہے

جاں کا کیا ہے بھلے تُو دیکھے مجھے نہ دیکھے
اک طرف آنی ہے اور دوجی طرف جانی ہے 🥀

تم ہو اک جھیل کے پانی کی طرح روشن اور
میں ہوں صحرا مرے چاروں طرف ویرانی ہے

تُو رہے دور تو میں خود سے رہوں سہما سا
تُو جو ہو پاس تو ہر موج میں طغیانی ہے✨

یہ اذیت بھی بھلا کم ہے کہ تیرے ہوتے
میں کسی اور سے بولوں کہ پریشانی ہے

Humble Thanks and Sincere prayers

It's been more than 5 years.

I have seen many excellent assignments.

I would like to re-mention some of the major mistakes that students make in their assignments. These mistakes, noticeable or unnoticeable, are in the end, dangerous for the students.

1. Size of essay ( total number of Paragraphs)
For css it should be at least 20 for pms at least 15 and for 1-hour PPSC exams, at least 10 paragraphs.

2. Poor length of the thesis ( less than 6 paragraphs, imbalance if two questions have been asked. For example, if the question is hopes and hurdles, then unequal number of hopes and hurdles or one heading clearly more explained than the other. )

3. Irrelevance( Any one or two headings not so relevant to the topic.
It happens when students know a lot and try to write whatever the hell they know about that topic. Relevance is they key.

4. Major or negligible Grammatical mistakes in the eyes of different teachers of English, yet always becoming a reason for not fetching you 40 marks. (You'll have to be extremely very careful about them especially in your outline and introductory paragraph. Sometimes I get very perturbed to see them in the assignments of those students who have been writing for quite some time.

5. Compromised size of the paragraphs.
( Either basic structural components such as topic sentence or concluding sentence are missing, or the overall size of paragraphs is small for a lot of paragraphs. This convinces the examiner that the length criteria of 2500 or 1500 words have not been met).

6. Too much complex outline. It will ruin you. I repeat, it will ruin you.

( Making more than three major headings and keeping the number of sub headings less under every major head.

Main headings ziada lkn neechy paragraphs km.

Complex numbering patterns usually workable for a thesis or a research paper, not for Essay.

Example, major headingsuch as causes---extension of major heading, such as social impacts, political impacts--- subheadings of extension, then bullets of subordinates points or case in points...

Maximum allowed complexity in an outline

1. Major heading
.....a. Sub heading
Case in point(.....)

No numbering for case in points