How toppers approached this question
"Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity". Analyse the social, moral and economic imperatives for eradicating corruption.
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
Analyse
The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
- Multi-dimensional buckets
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration62% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Define the key term first54% of answers
Open by defining the central term.
- Example as evidence46% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Verdict conclusion38% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- ‘However’ pivot36% of answers
Pivot to nuance with a qualifier.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Concepts ~2Examples ~1Thinkers ~1Current events ~1
Case anatomy · Corruption
- Ethical issues96% of toppers
- Chosen option94% of toppers
- Justification89% of toppers
- Options70% of toppers
- Stakeholders64% of toppers
- Values in conflict62% of toppers
GS4 · Analyse: derived from 50 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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