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CSS Essay Lab

A 12-week English Essay course built on FPSC examiner reports, with a grammar clinic running alongside every week.

  1. Grammar Clinic
  2. Diagnostic
Free · about 15 minutes

CSS Grammar Diagnostic Test

In short. This 24-question test covers the 12 grammar areas that appear most in CSS essay scripts, two questions each. Your results show which three units to study first.

Areas tested

  1. Subject–verb agreement
  2. Articles: a, an, the, and none
  3. Tenses and tense consistency
  4. Prepositions and Pakistani-English usage
  5. Sentence boundaries: run-ons, comma splices, fragments
  6. Pronouns: reference and agreement
  7. Modifiers: misplaced and dangling
  8. Parallel structure
  9. Conditionals and modal verbs
  10. Punctuation that examiners notice
  11. Word choice, confusables and comparison
  12. Clichés, redundancy and formal register

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