How toppers approached this question

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report 2023 highlights a growing menace of drug trafficking in South Asia, with India being a major hub. Analyze the various dimensions of this challenge with respect to India. Also suggest a multi-pronged approach to address it.

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
- Problems then remedies
- Multi-dimensional buckets
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close

Moves they converged on

Example as evidence63% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
Numbered enumeration60% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
Problems then remedies58% of answers
Pair each problem with a remedy.
Context-hook opening54% of answers
Open with a hook that frames the issue.
Verdict conclusion52% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
Data as argument51% of answers
Use a figure to carry the argument, not decorate it.
Multi-dimensional buckets50% of answers
Sort points into clear dimensions (social, economic…).
Named scheme as evidence44% of answers
Cite a named scheme as evidence.

Evidence toppers carried (per answer)

Examples ~2Concepts ~2Data points ~2Current events ~1Other anchors ~1Statutes ~1Principles ~1Institutions ~1

GS2 · Analyse: derived from 102 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose

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