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@ArindamSarkar Your post looks straight out of a newspaper editorial :P BTW why more pressure? Why test more for time management
I've been reading too many of them for long, I guess. @-)
Each essay needs some time for you to think up. Then you need to draft them. Each essay gives you 1.5 hrs. You need to write 1000-1200 words for each at least. Hence the time crunch.
@ArindamSarkar No.. My question was more rhetorical. Why are we being tested for pressure handling/time management given that we have GS/optional papers/PT to do that? I'm sure when the Essay paper was introduced in the 70s (I think), the raison d'être was not time management
@ArindamSarkar No.. My question was more rhetorical. Why are we being tested for pressure handling/time management given that we have GS/optional papers/PT to do that? I'm sure when the Essay paper was introduced in the 70s (I think), the raison d'être was not time management
I guess they want to eliminate the background biases for candidates in choosing their topics. If the topics are selected from diverse backgrounds, then science people answering the sole S&T topic or arts people answering the sole social issue topic, etc can be curbed. That favours well-rounded individuals - the fabled 'generalists,' and cuts out specialists. (That's what my coach thinks.)
Again, no exam explicitly tests time management. It's just a requisite skill for all exams. Civil servants don't spend their lives writing stuff by hand at lighting-fast speeds.
Of course, coherence, diction and accuracy suffer at higher speeds. To compensate, we must reduce the lengths. This new format may be directed at precise expression and quality over quantity.
Will be better if it happens to be two or multiple essays. One essay and three hours sometimes makes droning impact on cogitation which exposes the write up to redundancy. Also, it will reduce the advantage purely riding on the luck factor (Those who have prepared one essay topic to the heart and have fortunately found the same in question paper can easily sail above others). The other advantage of multiple essays is that we wont be in an obsessive compulsion to write a thesis on the topic. Less dragging and trudging the topic is another prospect multiple essay scheme has in offer.
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BTW why more pressure? Why test more for time management
Each essay needs some time for you to think up. Then you need to draft them. Each essay gives you 1.5 hrs. You need to write 1000-1200 words for each at least. Hence the time crunch.
15 mins to think each up x 2 = 30 mins
70 mins to write each down x 2 = 140 mins
5 mins to revise each x 2 = 10 mins
Total = 180 mins
Possible?
I'm sure when the Essay paper was introduced in the 70s (I think), the raison d'être was not time management
Again, no exam explicitly tests time management. It's just a requisite skill for all exams. Civil servants don't spend their lives writing stuff by hand at lighting-fast speeds.
Of course, coherence, diction and accuracy suffer at higher speeds. To compensate, we must reduce the lengths. This new format may be directed at precise expression and quality over quantity.