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Critically examine v/s Discuss: They are more similar than different.
We need to weigh both the pros and cons of the given statement, have to argue 'for' and 'against' and conclude in a vague manner instead of taking a definite stand. :P
Something like - ".....Cabinet Committee on Investment will definitely spruce up the investing scenario in our country by reducing red tape and speeding up the decision making process but at the same time one must ensure that the baby is not thrown out with the bathwater, due concerns have to be given for our mother nature. A delicate balance between development and environment needs to be maintained."
@skylax and @Partho Sorry was talking about the Cabinet Committee on Investment.I guess CCI was a bit misleading :P
So in essence what i understand is there wouldn't be any qualitative difference in either of your answers whichever way the question had been framed. I guess I've probably just been over analysing and looking for something which is not there!
1. Revise, Revise & Revise. 2. Practice, Practice & Practice.
You can write an answer - evaluate it. Now read your notes, write the answer again - evaluate it. Write the answer again after 2 weeks - evaluate it. You will see a pattern! You will pin - point your problem exactly. Try to repeat the above procedure for as many questions as possible. It works for me, I hope it works for you too.
@Partho It's interesting when you say you would conclude in a vague manner. There are lot of questions where you don't feel like taking a definite stand. Would be nice if more people poured in their views.
@Partho It's interesting when you say you would conclude in a vague manner. There are lot of questions where you don't feel like taking a definite stand. Would be nice if more people poured in their views.
Yeah! but be careful - Some questions are opinion based where you have to take a stand.
For instance,
'India can neither compete with China nor cooperate with China'. Do you agree with this analysis? Give reasons in support of your answer.
Obviously you cannot conclude in a 'vague' manner here - Something like this: #This is just for fun:
"If India cooperates with China, it will not have to compete with it and if India competes with China, it will not have to cooperate with it." :-? :-??
@fallen_leaves @Partho sir, I have read all the above comments. CSE-2014, would be my first attempt. "The phase" of practicing answer writing for GS mains comes at a point when you have a comprehensive knowledge of the current affairs of the past one year. I have started my preparation and have started reading "The Hindu" / Frontline/ Yojana / Kurukshetra.
According to my planning for CSE, I shall start practicing answer writing(or rather, will be in a position to practice answer writing) for GS mains-2014, after pre-2014. I am damn sure that, with this much of preparation for answer writing for GS mains, I shall never be able to compete with the "more experienced aspirants".
My questions are
1) What should I do for practicing answer writing(after reading articles from the above sources), from now on, to compete with the experienced aspirants ? (what I think is that, if I write the comments under the news of the news websites, then in a way i shall be able to do what I am asking for !!! )
2) Is my perception correct that an aspirant needs more answer writing practice for "GS mains" as compared to "history optional subject(my optional)" (as the answers for the 'GS mains' are highly dynamic/analytic in nature, and the 'History optional subject' are basically static in nature)
@abhithepandey i beg to differ on the account of history optional's questions being static! Check out the last mains paper, the questions revolve more around analysing situations and not simply static what/how/where things happened. I feel you would need equal practice in discerning the history syllabus as you would need with G.S
I have posted this in another thread as I had not seen this thread by then.
I Want to discuss frameworks for channelising thoughts.
I am copy pasting what I had written in another thread ----
How about there be a (standardised) framework to do answer writing.
For example one of the standard things we used to do while writing answers was PEST analysis - Political Economical Social Technological analysis of the question.
Helped a great deal in writing a lot of Sociology answers last year.
Also for longer answers there can be "Spatial" and "Temporal" analyses, as in where one can discuss about various different practices or different definitions with a time orientation of past, present and future.
These are some of the tools we used last year to channelise the thoughts.
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Critically examine v/s Discuss: They are more similar than different.
We need to weigh both the pros and cons of the given statement, have to argue 'for' and 'against' and conclude in a vague manner instead of taking a definite stand. :P
Something like -
".....Cabinet Committee on Investment will definitely spruce up the investing scenario in our country by reducing red tape and speeding up the decision making process but at the same time one must ensure that the baby is not thrown out with the bathwater, due concerns have to be given for our mother nature. A delicate balance between development and environment needs to be maintained."
Open for discussion!
So in essence what i understand is there wouldn't be any qualitative difference in either of your answers whichever way the question had been framed. I guess I've probably just been over analysing and looking for something which is not there!
Thanks a lot guys
2 things you need to do:
1. Revise, Revise & Revise.
2. Practice, Practice & Practice.
You can write an answer - evaluate it. Now read your notes, write the answer again - evaluate it. Write the answer again after 2 weeks - evaluate it. You will see a pattern! You will pin - point your problem exactly. Try to repeat the above procedure for as many questions as possible. It works for me, I hope it works for you too.
For instance,
'India can neither compete with China nor cooperate with China'. Do you agree with this analysis? Give reasons in support of your answer.
Obviously you cannot conclude in a 'vague' manner here - Something like this: #This is just for fun:
"If India cooperates with China, it will not have to compete with it and if India competes with China, it will not have to cooperate with it." :-? :-??
@Partho
sir,
I have read all the above comments.
CSE-2014, would be my first attempt.
"The phase" of practicing answer writing for GS mains comes at a point when you have a comprehensive knowledge of the current affairs of the past one year. I have started my preparation and have started reading "The Hindu" / Frontline/ Yojana / Kurukshetra.
According to my planning for CSE, I shall start practicing answer writing(or rather, will be in a position to practice answer writing) for GS mains-2014, after pre-2014. I am damn sure that, with this much of preparation for answer writing for GS mains, I shall never be able to compete with the "more experienced aspirants".
My questions are
1) What should I do for practicing answer writing(after reading articles from the above sources), from now on, to compete with the experienced aspirants ?
(what I think is that, if I write the comments under the news of the news websites, then in a way i shall be able to do what I am asking for !!! )
2) Is my perception correct that an aspirant needs more answer writing practice for "GS mains" as compared to "history optional subject(my optional)"
(as the answers for the 'GS mains' are highly dynamic/analytic in nature, and the 'History optional subject' are basically static in nature)
regards
I feel you would need equal practice in discerning the history syllabus as you would need with G.S
http://shubhra-saxena.blogspot.com/2009/06/writing-skills.html?m=1
I have posted this in another thread as I had not seen this thread by then.
I Want to discuss frameworks for channelising thoughts.
I am copy pasting what I had written in another thread ----
How about there be a (standardised) framework to do answer writing.
For example one of the standard things we used to do while writing answers was PEST analysis - Political Economical Social Technological analysis of the question.
Helped a great deal in writing a lot of Sociology answers last year.
Also for longer answers there can be "Spatial" and "Temporal" analyses, as in where one can discuss about various different practices or different definitions with a time orientation of past, present and future.
These are some of the tools we used last year to channelise the thoughts.
Would love to hear from others how do they do it.