How toppers approached this question
Q.19 Slums are not 'problems' that have to be 'solved' - but are indeed a result of lopsided and vested urban policies covering infrastructure provision and socio-economic issues. Analyse.
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
- Context-hook opening
- Define the key term first
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Multi-dimensional buckets
- Problems then remedies
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration74% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Example as evidence70% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Multi-dimensional buckets61% of answers
Sort points into clear dimensions (social, economic…).
- Context-hook opening59% of answers
Open with a hook that frames the issue.
- Verdict conclusion59% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Examples ~2Concepts ~2Data points ~1Other anchors ~1Current events ~1Institutions ~1People ~1
GS1 · Analyse: derived from 46 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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