How toppers approached this question
(a) What are the ethical issues and dilemmas in the above case? (b) What are the options available to you in the above case? (c) Considering the persistent nature of the RTI activist and the public's right to information, how should you navigate the tension between national security concerns and the principles of transparency and accountability? Explain
How toppers built answers of this type: the structure spine and the moves they converged on. Aggregated across real past-paper answers for this paper and directive, not this one question, so no question-specific evidence is shown. No answer text is reproduced.
The topper method
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The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
- Mechanism as arrow-chain
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration65% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Example as evidence58% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Verdict conclusion45% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- Thinker / quote as authority42% of answers
Invoke a thinker or quote as authority.
- Define the key term first40% of answers
Open by defining the central term.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Concepts ~2Current events ~1Examples ~1People ~1Statutes ~1Thinkers ~1Other anchors ~1
Case anatomy · Ethical dilemma
- Ethical issues94% of toppers
- Chosen option89% of toppers
- Justification89% of toppers
- Values in conflict83% of toppers
- Options78% of toppers
- Stakeholders75% of toppers
GS4 · Explain: derived from 121 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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