PSC Clerk Previous year English Precis ( 1998-2009)

1. The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you and how to say it. Our beloved leader Bapu,as we called him, the Father of the Nation is no more. Perhaps I am wrong to say that. Nevertheless,we will not see him again as we have seen him for these many years. We will not run to him for advice or seek solace from him and that is terrible blow not to me only but to millions and millions in the country, and it is a little difficult to soften the blow by any other advice that I or any one else can give you. The light has gone out, I said and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. The light that has illuminated this country for these many years will illuminate this country for many more years and a thousand year later that light will be seen in the country and the world will see it and it will give solace to innumerate hearts. For that light represented something more than the immediate present, it presented the living truth. ( PSC Misc - 2014)

Title : Gandhi, The Ray of India

Precis : The sudden death of the father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was an irreparable and immeasurable huge loss of the Country. Although his death left everyone in utter sadness, his message of non-vilolence which he had delivered during his whole life, will be memorized for ever. The path which he created for his nation,will arouse the lives of many ones.

2. It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who ever inflicts pain. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him. He benefits may be considered as a parallel to what are called comforts or convenience in arrangements of a personal nature, like an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue. The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jark or a jolt to the mind of those with whom he is cast, all clashing of opinion or collision of feeling, his great concern being to make everyone at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company, he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant and merciful towards the absurd. He makes light of favours that he does them and seems to be himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip. ( PSC Clerk - 2007)

Title : A True Gentleman

Precis : A gentleman can never serve distress. He is always far away from hindrances and unaccountable action. A true gentleman always is aware about his feelings, attitude, conduct and attitude. He is shy, gentle towards the distant and merciful to the absurd. He does not speak or defend without liability.

3. If there were no ambition to conquer the whole Europe, Nepoleon Bonaparte would not have been the unquestioned dictator of France. But the end of his ambition was in a meagre imprisonment the hot-headed desire to have unlimited empire all around the globe inspired. Alexander, the great to come as far as India for invasion. The laborious journey caused his death. King Midas loved gold so much that he had to lose his beloved daughter in his pursuit of gold. Similarly people heap money, leading a miserable life and ultimately meeting a miserable death. In today's world people feel the mind of their children with undue ambition, set them against one another and deprive them of the natural happiness of childhood. The objective of course what is to see one's old child at the top of all other children. But with what future ? All the children usually turned out to be as ordinary as their parents, to the utter frustration of themselves and their parents.

In such cases, the enterprise is directed towards the wrong end causing the destruction pursuer. None of these people could measure healthy and beneficial if the same has an achievable and good end. Otherwise it will lead a person to destruction.

Title : Lustful Desire is far from Happiness

Precis : Nepolean, Alexander and King Midas met with identical destiny and were unable to achieve their glamorous goal. Now-a-days People are chasing for money and meet ultimately miserable death. Parents instill the venomed germs in the minds of the children to achieve the top of all and kill their childhood happiness. Unsuccessful frustrations of the parents and the children persuade over own ability. The result will be successful if ambition is limited and leads to a happy end.

4. The whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the hill. The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand. Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the cape of the woods fringed with surf behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw clear across the eastern lowlands - a great space of open sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spyglass hill, dotted with single pines, black with precipices. There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all around and the chirp of countless insects in the bush. Not a man, not a sail upon the sea, the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude. ( PSC Clerk - 2004)

Title : Great view of a Landscape

Precis : Having gained the brow of the hill, the white party sat down to witness the beauty of the plateau. They saw the surf fringed, cape of wood, the anchorage, the skeleton island,pine clad, spyglass hill and vast open sea from all the sides. There was noone. The sound of breakers and chiping of insects increased their sense of solitude.

5. It has been wisely said that adjective is an enemy of noun. If we make a habit of saying "There is a true fact", we shall come under suspicion when we choose to tell merely a 'fact'. If a crisis is always 'acute' and an emergency, always 'grave', what will be left for those words to do by themselves ? if a decision is always qualified by 'definite', a decision by itself becomes a poor thing. If condition are customarily described as 'essential' we shall doubt where a condition without an adjective really a condition at all. If a part is always an 'integral part' there is nothing left for a mere part, except to be a spare part. ( PSC Clerk - 2003)

Title : Noun verses Adjectives

Precis : It is said that Nouns are eaten by Adjectives. Now Adjectiives are so widely and usually used before nouns to emphasis the latter that have lost their independent importance. Poor nouns have already nothing left to do by itselves.

6. Words,kinds or unkinds cost nothing. But they are very powerful factors in giving pleasure or causing misery. They can be used both for good and for evil. The influence of words lasts throughout a life time. A home where the people do not use kind words to one another,must be like a desert. There are many who think that it is enough if we help the poor materially, it is not necessary to use kind words along with kind words is much acceptable than a large gift bestowed with indifference. ( PSC Clerk - 2002)

Title : True Words

Precis : Words have great power, it can cause either pain or pleasure. Words have good and bad effects both. The poor like more a small gift with polite words than a bigger one given perfunctorily.

7. The dawn was young. The hint of purple haze tinted the horizon. The constellations of the right sky were dimming beyond cognizance. You could see the green darkness of the forested hill, silhouetted against the ever so slowly brightening sky.

I sat huddled under a mahua tree shivering in the bitting cold. I was heavy with sleep yet heady with anticipations. As I sat a witness to its unfolding saga, another day was on the verge of being born on this planet, in the depth of wilderness called "Palamau". The Palamau jungle venerated by the shikaris and romanticised by authors, so popular today's tourists at large, comprises a large forest tract, draping the northern slopes of Chotanagpur plateau in the newly torn eastern indian state of Jharkhand. Declared a 'Project Tiger' area in 1974, the pristine jungles cover an expanse of 1940 sq. kms of varied and rich flora, intersected with hills, which primarily run from east to west,including a northern path known as the Betla Tourist Zone.

The attitude of the park varies from 300 mts to 1140 mts. 213 sq. kms of virgin forest lying at the very heart of the project has been defined as the 'core' area. Where tourism is taboo and the denizens of the jungle roam in sublime nonchalance.

Title : The Palamau Hills and Jungle

Precis : The author saw the beautiful spectacle of the unfolding of a day break in the wooded Palamou hills at wintry dawn. One of the favourite tourist spots, the Palamou forest in Chotanagpur plateau of Jharkhand covers 1940 sq. kms of area. It is filled with flora and fauna, a 'Project Tiger' area , the Betla Tourist Zone,is at very high altitude. Tourists are prohibited in the core area about 213 sq. kms of virgin forest.

8. It matters very little where you go or when you go, it matters little what you do. The thing itself matters and that thing is holiday, the break from the monotomy of routine and the discipline of earning a living. To get away, to be free for a brief spell, to feel that you have not get up at the appointed hour, to know that you can linger over you breakfast, to realize that the usual business train will depart without you, to look upon new scenes and strange faces, to breathe fresh air, to hear different sounds, to do different things, or better still, to do nothing at all - that is holiday. Fix upon a place, no matter what place anywhere , put a few things into a bag, the fewer the better and go. The change, I repeat is the ghings,scenary or amusements hardly count in this great business for unless a man carry all the beauty of the world in his own mind, and all the joy of life in his own heart, he will not find them elsewhere. Unless we carry the spirit of place within us as part of our personal kit, we shall not find it eksewhere. We are joy and sorrow and the world about us but material for their expression. ( PSC Clerk - 1999)

Title : Holiday , A break from Monotomy Routine

Precis : Holiday itself is very important to enjoy. It is apart from boring daily routine, discipline, of earning hours and disputes of Daily life. It is an occasion to hear, to see and enjoy variety of sigths, sounds and many things. One should decide a destination anywhere,take few things as possible and just start the journey. One should enjoy the charmness of the world on one's mental makeup and ofcourse not for any material thing.

Q.9. Research on new forms of flood production has so far pathetically small. The limited progress which has been achieved is due more to the enthusiasm of individuals that to the planning of governments. If the money and manpower developed to space research could be delivered to this type of scientific problem, we might soon find a solution. Most experts would agree that there are still unlimited possibilities for improving techniques and processes and for new scientific discoveries which could change much of the present despair to an atmosphere of hope. But the problems need tackling now, not when the crisis is upon us. ( PSC Clerk - 1998)

Title : Scientific Research of Food Production

Precis : The solution of food production requires major application of money and man power to reasearch on new forms of food production, which has been very meagre so far. New scientific research for new improving techniques of production could change much of the present scenario. It could bring hope to millions of life.