How toppers approached this question
Q.20 Analyze the socio-cultural factors contributing to the high attrition rate among women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers in India. Suggest measures to improve their retention in STEM.
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
- 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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