MPhil World History · PhD scholar · 20 years in the classroom
Pakistan Studies and Islamiyat for O Level, IGCSE, AQA and Edexcel — taught as a story you can explain, not a list you forget.
The Road
to A*History & Geography
Know the story.
Land the A*.Zunair Farooq
Seven prime ministers in eleven years — and why the system kept failing.
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Everything on this desk moves. Go on, pick something up.
Fifteen history chapters and twelve geography topics, each boiled down to what happened, why it matters, the dates that score and the trap examiners set.
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“I walked in expecting a B. The Road to A* and his Section 3 drills got me an A* in 2059 — and I finally understood the history.”
Paper 1 · History
Drag through the Pakistan Movement
1906
All-India Muslim League founded in Dhaka
Paper 2 · Geography
The Indus and its five tributaries
Islamiyat · 2058
The structure from his most-watched Islamiyat lecture.
Build the habit of explaining, and every paper starts to feel the same: answerable.
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Confidence in September. The “aha” before mocks. Practice that turns into a habit by March.
With Mr. Zunair’s method = momentum
Curious & confident
Gets the “aha”
Practising, motivated
Calm & A*-ready
Overwhelmed
Memorising blindly
Losing marks on structure
Panics on paper day
Cramming without a method
The Road
to A*History edition
Know the story.
Land the A*.Zunair Farooq
Printed copies at Greenhall campuses
PDF on request · DHA Phase 6 · Gulberg · Bahria Town
23 March 1940 — the day the demand for a separate homeland became official.
Every chapter, one clear page.
What happened. Why it matters. The dates that score. What to do, and what to avoid.
Written so a student can revise a whole section in an evening.
Turn the chapter into marks with guided practice.
Every chapter ends in exam questions.
A 4, a 7 and a 14-mark question with a planning frame, so students practise structure, not just content.
The same frames he uses in class.
“My son stopped cramming dates the night before. He explains history at the dinner table now — that’s how I knew it was working.”
Every topic links to three more. Pull one thread and the whole syllabus starts making sense — try dragging the cards.
Get the Road to A*Muslims are a nation, not a minority — the demand for a homeland becomes official.
The boundary award splits the Punjab — and its rivers — between two new states.
Eastern rivers to India, western rivers to Pakistan. History and geography in one document.
Signs the treaty, backs the Green Revolution, and starts the dams.
The replacement works: store the monsoon, generate power, feed the canals.
History is the story of people making choices. Geography is the stage they made them on. When students see both, Pakistan Studies stops being a memory test.
Zunair Farooq has spent twenty years proving it — eight as visiting faculty at universities, and more than twelve in Lahore schools like LGS, Roots and The City School.
He holds an MPhil in History and is a PhD scholar in World History. Today he teaches at Greenhall Academy.
This is where his notes, guides and lectures live.
