Essay & Answer-Writing Vault
Useful resources and crucial articles
Building the body of the Essay in UPSC Mains exam : Body-building 2.0
Believe it or not, there is often a particularly right away or a wrong way to structure an argument. And a particularly well-defined way to counter-argument and even to anticipate them.
HOW TO TACKLE PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY TOPICS FOR UPSC
Ever so often you will find topics like ” simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” and ” life is a long journey between being...
UPSC ESSAYS: IMPACTFUL INTRODUCTIONS
Introductions are the first impression you will make on the examiner. First impressions are not only the last impression but inform how we form judgments about the source of the object.
UPSC ESSAY: THE KEYWORD DETECTIVE
Often, in the exam, even while knowing a lot about a topic, the best points and examples may not come to mind when you need them. Only later when the exam is over do you realize that you could have used that point or you forgot to write that example etc.
UPSC Essay & Answer-writing: THE MAGIC OF DECONSTRUCTION
The UPSC essay and the Mains exam, in toto, is all about the quality and depth of your understanding. But this does not necessarily mean that you...
UPSC CSE Mains 2020-2021 Essay paper Solved, analyzed and super-simplified
My approach in this article will be to show you how to write a good essay on one of the topics as well as to take you through the entire process of brainstorming, argument-formation, rough work, structuring and organization of the essay as I went through it. This will not only enrich you about the essay topic under consideration but also teach you how to use the techniques to construct a similar essay on any topic.
UPSC Mains: 12 Common mistakes to avoid in the Essay paper
Only a few exceptions get much more or much less than the average score in the UPSC mains exam. Obviously, you are interested in getting much more and land in the topper-zone shown in the graph. You want to be the exceptional candidate who ends up scoring 70-80% marks in the Essay paper that year.
