Essay Writing
2 Essays
Section A (1 Essay) and Section B(1 Essay)
1000-2000 words
Total Marks 2 x 125 = 250
Time: 3 hours
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Diagrams
Graphs
Conclusion
length to be Use Simple
1/10th of Present Tense
your essay
TIPS For Essay Writing
No jargons or
Focus on the
technical
Topic
terminologies
Neutral Tone
Current
with Decent
Awareness
Language
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Whether Your Essay is Complete in All Aspects?
Purpose
Effect/Impact
Evaluation/
Review
New Ideas/
Innovation
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Common Mistakes
• Inconsistent tense
• Quoting instead of paraphrasing “Quote”
• Incomplete sentences.....
• Single spacing and indenting
• Avoid Contractions (such as Don’t instead use Do not)
• Avoid Second Person (You see)
• Avoid Passive Voice(mistakes were made/I made a
mistake)
• Correct the Spelling
• DO NOT USE BIG WORDS, DO NOT USE SMALL WORDS,
USE THE RIGHT WORDS.
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How to use your Time
Effectively?
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Steps
• Topic Selection
• Brainstorming
• Arrangement of Ideas/organising
• Quoting Facts and Figures
• Stick close to subject of the Essay - Focus
• Write concisely
• Exact and Effective Representation
• Tone of the Essay
• Awareness
• Revision and Proofreading
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Previous Year Questions
2016
Section-A: 125 Marks
Write any one of the following essay in 1000-1200 words.
1. If development is not engendered, it is endangered.
2. Need brings greed, if greed increases it spoils breed.
3. Water disputes between States in federal India.
4. Innovation is the key determinant of economic growth and social welfare.
Section-B: 125 Marks
Write any one of the following essay in 1000-1200 words.
1. Cooperative federalism: Myth or reality.
2. Cyberspace and Internet: Blessing or curse to the human civilization in the long
run?
3. Near jobless growth in India: An anomaly or an outcome of economic reforms.
4. Digital economy: A leveller or a source of economic inequality.
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Previous Year Questions
2015
Section A
1. Lending hands to someone is better than giving a dole
2. Quick but steady wins the race
3. Character of an institution is reflected in its leader
4. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather
to make a man more clever devil
Section B
1. Technology cannot replace manpower
2. Crisis faced in India - moral or economic
3. Dreams which should not let India Sleep
4. Can Capitalism bring Inclusive Growth
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Previous Year Questions
2014
Section-A
1. With greater power comes greater responsibility.
2. Is the growing level of competition good for the youth?
3. Are the standardized tests good measure of academic ability or progress? ***
4. Words are Sharper than the two-edged sword.
Section-B
1. Was it the policy paralysis or the paralysis of implementation which slowed the
growth of our country?
2. Is sting operation an invasion on privacy?
3. Fifty Golds in Olympics: Can this be a reality for India?
4. Tourism: Can this be the next big thing for India? ***
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Previous Year Questions
2013 ANY ONE TOPIC
1. Be the change you want to see in others – Gandhiji
2. Is the Colonial Mentality hindering India’s Success?
3. GDP(Gross Domestic Product) along with GDH(Gross
Domestic Happiness) would be the right indices for
judging the well being of a country
4. Science and Technology is the panacea for the growth
and security of the nation
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IMPORTANT TOPICS
• Impact and Scope of GST Bill in India.
• Demonetization and its Consequences.
• The bane of NPAs in the country.
• The Current Picture of Women Empowerment in India.
• Gauge the Success of Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan.
• Ambit and Expansion of Aadhaar Card’s Scope in India.
• Comment on direct and indirect benefits of Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) to companies.
• Explain how affordable and quality education can help in nation
building.
• What is the best way for the country to be rid of the menace of
sexual harassment of women?
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IMPORTANT TOPICS
• North-eastern India. Special attention needed.
• Nuclear power plants in India. Whether India should focus more on them,
etc.
• Farmer suicides.
• PM Modi’s agricultural schemes.
• Prohibition on liquor and its effects.
• Digitisation and Indian democracy.
• Pollution in India. Environmental crisis.
• India’s responsiveness to natural disasters like flooding, etc.
• Make in India.
• Beef politics.
• India against terrorism.
• Energy security in India.
• Vegetarianism
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IMPORTANT TOPICS
• Jallikattu protests in Tamil Nadu.
• Relevance of Gandhi today.
• Pros and cons of a cashless economy.
• Water disputes between Indian states.
• Value education in India and corruption.
• Development and Green India.
• Poverty and crime.
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IMPORTANT TOPICS
• “I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and
stones.” (Albert Einstein)
• Inclusion of women in the armed forces. More combat
roles for women.
• “Good fences make good neighbours.” (Robert Frost)
• India’s role in the changing global order.
• Poverty and gender equality.
• Beti Bachao.“If you educate a man you educate an
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IMPORTANT TOPICS
• Juvenile crime in India.
• Crime against women in India.
• Should there be priority for India’s space missions
amidst pressing issues like poverty,
unemployment, etc.?
• Corruption in the armed forces.
• Scrapping of the Planning Commission.
• “No country for old men.”
• “The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
(Emmanuel Kant)
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Environmental concern is changing
the course of International Politics
• club of rome 1968 report’in 1972 ‘Limits to Growth’
• Bruntland report by UN WCED(World Commission of Environment
and Development)
• GHG Emission and Global Warming
• Kyoto protocol
• Montreal protocol
• Ecological Footprint
• Carrying Capacity
• Earth Summit 1992 UNFCC
• India’s Approach – INDC(Intended Nationally Determined
Contributions)
• Global Solar Alliance
• REDD++
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• Energy Security is a key to growth.
• Cooperative Federalism in India:
• Self Reliance and Self Belief is the key to
Women Empowerment
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Are the standardized tests good measure of academic ability or progress?
• ***by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish
life believing that it is stupid.”
• Top Scorers – achieved anything?
• Innovation and creativity comes from the so called poor students – Einstein etc
• Standardised tests – University admissions – Medicine, Engineering, HR, Accounts vary
• Skills sets are different and unique
• UPSC,SSC, SPSC,Banks etc have different type of tests to select the right person
• Measuring academic ability or progress
• Decentralised education system in western countries
• Integrated development and individualism is ignored
• Comprehensive Continuous Evaluation pattern by CBSE
• Pros and cons of Standardized tests
• Pros – What to teach, evaluation and progress monitoring, comparisons made , objective,
• Cons -Stress on students and parents, do not record overall development, narrow coverage
• Standardized tests cannot measure include "creativity, critical thinking, resilience,
motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance, reliability, enthusiasm, empathy, self-
awareness, self-discipline, leadership, civic-mindedness, courage, compassion,
resourcefulness, sense of beauty, sense of wonder, honesty, integrity.”
• Improvisation will bring in an ocean of opportunities for students to excel in their interests
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Tourism: can this be the next big thing for India?
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the
world.”
• Introduction and global scenario:
• Rising disposable incomes and stress-level making people go on vacation.
• Factors promoting global tourism like airlines, global hotel chains etc.
• Types of tourism- adventure, health, eco, green, family, etc.
• India’s potential in each type
• map showing tourism sites.
• GDP and Tourism contribution chart
• Benefits of tourism for our country -eco, social, infra, etc.
• Special ways that it can promote backward regions and segments of
population
• Negative points of promoting tourismWhat are the current gaps –
infrastructure, mindset, safety issues, govt support, transport,
maintenance, guides etc type stuff and
• how to fix it.
• How do we go forward
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“Cleaner India A Greater India”
• PM Clean India Mission Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 4,041 statutory cities and towns 2
October 2014 at New Delhi.
• by 2 October 2019, 12 million toilets in rural India, at a projected cost of ₹1.96 lakh
crore Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary and his ideas about cleanliness
• Many Components of the Mission
• Open Defecation
• Social aspects – caste and toilet cleaning
• Waste to Energy plants – Waste generated per year
• Healthy Dividend, lesser disease and mortality
• Pollution and related items like Air, Soil, Water Environment Carbon Footprint and
carbon credit
• RRR – Reduce Reuse and Recycle
• Railway – Bio toilets
• Ambassadors and famous personalities as campaigners
• Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
• River cleaning missions and projects
• Last but not least – Cleaning one’s Self – Ethical/Moral , Purity of Thought –
Individual (Corruption)
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While walking through riot ravaged Noakhali and Tipperah districts of
East Bengal, many a times the narrow footpaths were dirtied by Muslim
League fanatics with human and animal faeces, to sabotage Bapu’s
peace pilgrimage. The first couple of times, as soon as Bapu came upon
the filth in his path he did not side step and avoid the filth, he did not
change his route or cancel his padayatra, nor did he order his workers to
clean up the path. On seeing the filth Bapu picked up palm fronds and
swept off the filth and then walked down the clean footpath. Seeing
this, after a few attempts, the miscreants desisted. This is Satyagraha at
work, this is also an example of the power of dignity in labour, the
quality of considering no work below one’s self.
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