How toppers approached this question
Q.19 Examine the factors behind the growing salience of the Arctic region in international politics. Discuss, in this context, strategies for India to recalibrate its Arctic engagement.
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
Examine
The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Problems then remedies
- Directive-mirroring headers
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Example as evidence69% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Numbered enumeration66% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Problems then remedies56% of answers
Pair each problem with a remedy.
- Verdict conclusion55% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- Directive-mirroring headers49% of answers
Headers that mirror the question's directive.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Judgments ~2Concepts ~1Other anchors ~1Examples ~1Institutions ~1Data points ~1Thinkers ~1Current events ~1
GS2 · Examine: derived from 117 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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