ESSAY Model Answers – 2023
ESSAY Model Answers – 2023
HOOK: QUOTE
“Our best capacity is realized only with a strong opponent”
Mohd Ali
BACKGROUND
- We can write the story of how the Vietnamese safeguarded their country from American Assaults in the war.
- Story of our freedom struggle can be a background (history)
- Any current affairs dimension – solar as a solution to energy security
- An opinion – to not to align with any block and stay independent
- An idea – Need or a desire to free ourselves from the colonial rule
- A realization that I am not born to be a slave, but to be master of my own destiny.
THESIS STATEMENT
- We don’t value our adversaries in life. We look at them as obstacles, not realizing that they are the reason for our growth and rise from shadow.
- Everything that a man has discovered is a result of thinking in the presence of an opponent.
DIMENSIONS
- IMPORTANCE OF HAVING AN OPPONENT IN ONES LIFE
- VALUING THE CAPABILITIES OF THE OPPONENT
- ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE STRENGTH OF THE OPPONENT AND COUNTERING STRATEGY
- WHEN DOES THINKING START – WILLINGNESS TO DO OR NOT TO DO. We need to make a choice.
- THINKING STARTS WITH A BELIEF THAT I CAN DO IT
- THINKING HELPS US TO DEFINE OUR PLAN, STRATEGIZE AND EXECUTE
- OPPOSITE TEAM – COULD BE A PERSON, A CHALLENGE, A SITUATION OR EVEN THE CAPACITY TO FIND A REASON FOR AN ACTION
CONCLUSION
- GIVE POINTS RELATED TO US THAT WE THOUGHT AND WE DID
- GIVE POINTS RELATED TO US THAT WE ARE THINKING AND ARE GOIND TO DO
HOOK:
“An effort to bring a major change in the absence of intuition and logic is like going on a road trip without a map”
BACKGROUND
- Give the dimension of success of swachh bharat abhiyaan ‘
- Give the idea of visionary decision to land on moon
- We can Talk about out vision to rise as a voice of the south
THESIS STATEMENT
- “Our ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning, if supported by logic, can bring miracles”
- “Many a times in our life, if logic fails, intuition helps, but if both intersect at a common point then there is no looking back”
- Every big success, if seen closely, is an intersection of intuition and logic
DIMENSIONS
- INTUITION AND LOGIC ARE PARTS OF DECISION MAKING. ALL IT ENTAILS IS PROCESSING INFORMATION AND MAKING JUDGEMENTS.
- INTUITION CAN HELP US TO TAKE QUICK DECISIONS. LOGIC HELPS US TO BE OBJECTIVE.
- HOW TO DEVELOP INTUITION ?
- HOW TO DEVELOP LOGIC ?
- THE ART OF BALANCING THE BOTH
- ITS OK IF THEY ARE COMPLEMENTARY – BUT WHAT IF THEY ARE CONFLICTING?
- RECOGNITION PRIMED DECISION (RPD)
- MAKING OTHER ACCEPT YOUR INTUITION AND LOGIC
HOOK:
“We kill a girl with restrictions and boys with expectations”
“The day a girl can walk without fear at midnight – India will celebrate its real independence” Gandhi
BACKGROUND
- Different fields of restrictions and expectations
- The iron curtains of gender biases (Field of Science/Defence)
- A must required ?
THESIS STATEMENT
- The fixation of the roles of a girl and a boy based on historical construct is itself flawed and reduces a society to a time clock.
DIMENSIONS
- We are chained by our own inabilities than strengths
- The boundaries of restrictions and expectations
- The scope of these restrictions and expectations
- The burden of history and culture
- Even in the absence, the burden of judgement
- The courage to face the restrictions and rise above the expectations
- The cost of restrictions and expectations (individual/societal)
- The audacity to not pass the same to the next generation
- The limitations created by these expectations
- Are these restrictions rightful?
- The moral compass of the restrictions and the societal role in its determination
- Is the society taken as an excuse-or it is the society to be blamed
HOOK:
“The progress of a society can be measured more from justice than Charity”
BACKGROUND
- Justice to the voiceless. Women Reservation Bill
- Rights of the Minorities
- Traditional Forest Dwellers
- The rightful place for animals in the society
- The right of environment
THESIS STATEMENT
- The idea of justice is a pre-cursor to the idea of charity
- The requirement of charity is a reflection of injustice
- Charity is a duty and not a favour, as the society has failed to earn justice to the needy.
DIMENSIONS
- The responsibility to ensure justice
- Having the strength to say its not charity but an effort to undo injustice
- Justice as a matter of right
- The societal idea of justice.
- Interlinking of justice and charity – the presence of one, negates the need of other.
- The role of historical events in coming to a common ground on what is justice
- The willingness at least to give charity
- Individual/familial/societal/national/international/humanitarian
- Education/Job perspective
- The right to choose a path of life – be it education/relationship/job etc
- Ethical quotient of justice
HOOK:
“TRUTHFUL/RIGHTFUL EDUCATION CREATES AN ETERNAL BOND WITH THE SUBJECT AND THE SOCIETY”
BACKGROUND
- HISTORICAL CONSTRUCT
- THE IDEA OF DUTY
THESIS STATEMENT
- EDUCATION IN ESSENCE IS A BRIDGE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY
- EDUCATION EMPOWERS YOU TO USE IT AS A TOOL TO INTERACT WITH THE SOCIETY
- IT HELPS TO IMPROVE YOUR OUTLOOK TOWARDS SOCIETY AND PEER GROUP FROM A NEUTRAL PERSPECTIVE
DIMENSIONS
- THE IDEA OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND LITERACY
- THE ETERNITY OF THE EDUCATION
- ABILITY TO HANDLE CRITICAL SITUATIONS
- LOOKING AT IT AS A SOURCE FOR IMPROVEMENT RATHER THAN ACCOMPLISHMENT
- THE ACCEPTANCE FOR A CHANGE AND ITS CONTINUATION EVEN AFTER COMING OUT OF THE CONTROL BUTTON
- THE NEED TO UNLEARN TO LEARN
- NOT AN END IN ITSELF, BUT A MEANS TO IT
HOOK:
“There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics],”
James Joseph Sylvester
BACKGROUND
- Importance of Mathematics in society
- Any action not supported by mathematics – creates ripples that remain for ever
THESIS STATEMENT
- The object of pure mathematics is that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
DIMENSIONS
- Be it economic, social or political – if the reasons is not based on mathematics, it is bound to fail. Give examples
- Mathematics – supersedes all opinion
- The chances of failure are minimal, if decision are taken based on reasoning supported by mathematics than just based on intuition
- Reasoning and intuition – the magical pairing
- Mathematics can help us prepare for any eventuality
- One must be mindful not to be driven purely by math – but with a combination of math and logic
- The societal norms at times precede reasoning based on math
- The importance of timing with math – math is a failure if not timed well
- The burden of mathematics is also fatal