There is no fixed way of answer writing. Aspirants
continuously innovate to make the answer informative and attractive. The
article is to introduce you to the ways of answer writing.
New upsc pattern
The new question pattern of upsc is aimed at giving away to
rote learning and introducing creative ways of answer writing. One of the
changes is the variation is the words in answers. There are 50 words, 20 words,
100 words etc needed for questions. This calls for adjusting your knowledge
according to the number of words needed.
The content in your mind while writing the exam is fixed.
You need to stretch it, condense it according to need. Some aspirants would
have studied loads of material enough for an essay for say: spot fixing, and if
upsc asks it for 2 marks!. They they find themselves in a tricky spot.
The skill to expand, contract answers is needed. There are
people who are staunch opponents of coaching of any kind for ias exams. In
fact, good coaching centres teach these skills. These are skills that the high
school teacher forgot to say; unfortunately we got to learn it after
graduation!
Word length
There may be topics for which you need only 100 words, but
you know more than 600 words. Its well and good that you know the answer, but
the teacher can’t put you 20 marks for a 6 mark question. There are aspirants
who go on writing answers all they know, forgetting that he has crossed the
word limit. In the enthusiasm to “write the best answer”, he ends up with a
boring long answer.
Aspirants thought “wow, i wrote all i know”
Examiner’s thought “the kid made a test series when asked
about IPL”
In short, when asked to play a crisp short film, don’t play
“once upon a time in America” or “the god father”; the MI or F&F would be
better option.
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Thanks...... Keep writing.......
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