English essay remains a simple but subtle test of a mans mental caliber. Since essay was discovered by Sir Francis Bacon and improved and refined by countless writers, English essay has remained a good judge of any aspiring candidate for public or private sector jobs and posts. For many years the only standard of judging military staff college candidates was simply one essay from which their analytical and communication skills were judged. In competitive examinations in third world countries English Essay takes the highest toll in failures, as a subject. Thus English essay possesses the notorious distinction of being the sword of Damocles for a very large number of competitive examination candidates. The aim of this brief work is to serve as a primer or as a study aid for competitive examination candidates worldwide but more specifically South and West Asia. When I joined the Pakistan Military Academy in 1981 I discovered that English took the maximum toll of cadets who were relegated or failed in the first two terms. When I appeared and qualified in the CSS competitive examination in 1987 and 1989 I again discovered that English Essay remained CSS candidates Bermuda Triangle of failure. Mr Syed Zafar Bukhari who I met in Multan in 1987 during his attachment as a civil service academy student with Pakistan Army was very fond of discussing how CSS candidates mostly failed in English essay. My early interest in writing articles since 1977 motivated me to read great masters of essay like Francis Bacon who off course was the greatest master, as well as Montaigne, Bertrand Russell etc.