Current Affairs

There is no need for you to read Dawn daily! Yes, no need to read any newspaper!
Reading dawn takes
atleast 1-2 hours daily and main time consuming activity of all other CSS
aspirants. You on the other hand
do not need to read it except on weekends. For CA prep, get the following
1)Quarterly Journal (4 editions come in a year)
2)Jahangir World Times magazine (all 12)
Go through these a couple of times and you are all set to go. Off-course, here my
earlier assumption also
comes into play that you have debated in life previously and therefore have
analytical skills. You also have
good english etc etc. If needed or if you feel like, you may read Opinion/Encounter
of Dawn on a daily
basis.
Thus preparing for CA should take max 1 week
Pakistan Affairs
Ikram Rabbani: Thats it! Read this book only till Zia-ul-Haq era and no more.
Prepare your own pointers
from the internet on agriculture, manufacturing, education and water crisis in
Pakistan. Go through this
book a couple of times as it contains everything you need to pass in Pakistan
Affairs.
Do get solved past papers and give special attentions to MCQs and topics like Sir
Syed, Shah Walli Ullah,
Pakistan movement, Ideology of Pakistan etc
Max time 4-5 days
Islamiat
Solve Islamiat in English because you are good at it (earlier assumption). Get the
following books
1)Islamiat by Dogar Sons
2)Jahangir Exam Cram series
Go through both these books and repeat if necessary. Also important here is that
you look at Friday
Feature of Dawn. No need to buy a dawn on Friday though or even look at it each
friday for the next 52
weeks. You can search on Google and get articles from any period. Once again, last
10 years solved
papers are important.
Give a full week to Islamiat prep as it is a difficult subject and questions are
generally contemporary in
nature.