How toppers approached this question
Q.12 In light of recent developments, the Collegium system and the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act, 2014 have once again come under scrutiny. Do you think that a NJAC-like body can make judicial appointments more transparent, broad-based, and accountable? Justify your answer.
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
Discuss
The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
- Problems then remedies
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration71% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Define the key term first55% of answers
Open by defining the central term.
- Example as evidence55% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Verdict conclusion53% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- Directive-mirroring headers43% of answers
Headers that mirror the question's directive.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Sections / code provisions ~2Current events ~1Statutes ~1Thinkers ~1Data points ~1Examples ~1Institutions ~1Concepts ~1
GS2 · Discuss: derived from 293 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
Write your own answer to this question
Mark my answer freeMethod is derived from real past-paper answers as anonymized aggregate signal. Construction moves and counts, never copied answer text.