How toppers approached this question
Q.8 "MGNREGA, the lynchpin of rural poverty alleviation, has become the victim of fiscal apathy." Critically analyze the statement in light of recent developments.
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
Critically examine
The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Both sides before the verdict
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Both sides before the verdict72% of answers
Weigh both sides before taking a stand.
- Numbered enumeration69% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Example as evidence63% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Verdict conclusion60% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- Directive-mirroring headers58% of answers
Headers that mirror the question's directive.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Examples ~2Current events ~1Institutions ~1Other anchors ~1Concepts ~1Principles ~1Judgments ~1Statutes ~1
GS2 · Critically examine: derived from 67 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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